{"id":1146523,"date":"2021-12-23T13:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146523"},"modified":"2021-12-23T13:34:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-23T18:34:22","slug":"china-locks-down-13-million-in-xian-key-ancient-christian-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-locks-down-13-million-in-xian-key-ancient-christian-site\/","title":{"rendered":"China Locks Down 13 Million in Xi&#039;an, Key Ancient Christian Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fchina-locks-down-13-million-in-xian-key-ancient-christian-site%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1146523&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/A1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Chinese Communist Party officials <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20211223\/db2fca12c74448048c8e7c0e52bc2034\/c.html\">locked down<\/a> the entire city of Xi\u2019an on Thursday after reportedly just 143 of the community\u2019s 13 million residents tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus over the past two weeks, China\u2019s official state-run press agency, Xinhua, reported.<\/p>\n<p>Xi\u2019an\u2019s government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/20211223\/f3c50de4af4d4583adfd67c397956e65\/c.html\">announced<\/a> a citywide stay-at-home order on the afternoon of December 22 that went into effect for an indefinite amount of time on December 23. The city will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/china-locks-down-xian-issuing-stay-at-home-order-to-13-million-11640191348\">allow<\/a> \u201cone family member to do grocery runs every two days\u201d during the lockdown period, according to the <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Xi\u2019an municipal officials&nbsp;\u201curged residents not to leave town unless they are tested for Covid-19 [Chinese coronavirus] and have clearance from employers or community-level authorities,\u201d the newspaper reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAll indoor dining and outdoor gatherings, such as group dancing in public spaces, have been suspended,\u201d the <em>Journal<\/em> added.<\/p>\n<p>Communist officials ordered Xi\u2019an \u2014 a city known for its pre-modern Christian heritage \u2014 into lockdown just two days before Christmas. While Xi\u2019an\u2019s modern-day population&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2019\/jan\/15\/china-crackdown-fears-xian-muslim-quarter\">counts<\/a> Christians as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/backgrounder\/christianity-china\">minority<\/a>, the historic metropolis <a href=\"https:\/\/crc.blog.fordham.edu\/arts-culture\/chinas-buried-christian-history\/\">attracted<\/a> the first recorded Christian missionary to China in the 7th century due to its location along the ancient Silk Road uniting Eastern and Western merchants.<\/p>\n<p>The Xi\u2019an Stele, or Nestorian Monument, is a stone tablet dating to 781 AD unearthed around the early 17th century in Xi\u2019an\u2019s Shaanxi province. The stone tablet attests to the missionary activity of Nestorian Christians in China as early as 635 AD. According to the stele\u2019s inscription, \u201cChinese emperor Taizong received the Nestorian Persian monk A-lo-pen in his capital city of Chang\u2019an (modern Xi\u2019an) in 625 and looked with favour upon him and the writings of the \u2018luminous doctrine\u2019 (Christianity) he brought with him,\u201d <em>Encyclopedia Britannica<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/Xian-monument\">details<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy 638 a monastery for this monk and 20 others had been constructed at the expense of the Imperial coffer in the capital city. By 650 it is reported that the Christian mission had expanded sufficiently to be recognized at the diocesan level,\u201d according to the encyclopedia.&nbsp;Xi\u2019an\u2019s Nestorian Christian community \u201cdisappeared after the 10th century\u201d due to local Buddhist opposition.<\/p>\n<p>The Xi\u2019an Stele \u201cserves as a concrete proof to China\u2019s earliest celebrations of Christmas, during which it says the emperor of the time held special rituals and shared the delicious food to people who believed in Christianity,\u201d&nbsp;the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) <a href=\"https:\/\/news.cgtn.com\/news\/3d3d514e32597a4e34457a6333566d54\/index.html\">noted<\/a> in May 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese Communist Party officials locked down the entire city of Xi\u2019an on Thursday after reportedly just 143 of the community\u2019s 13 million residents tested positive for the Chinese coronavirus over &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}