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The Musical Fountain at the big wild goose pagoda in southern Xian, Shaanxi province, China.

Built in 652 to house sutrines and figurines of the Buddha that had been brought back to China by the Buddhist traveller Xuanzang, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda looks out of the city of Xian in China’s northwest Shaanxi province.


The pagoda was built from bricks, without using cement. Its distinctive façade was renovated during the Ming Dynasty and the building developed a perceptible lean to the left after an earthquake in 1556. A music fountain has been built in the north square and regularly hosts spectacular light and water shows.