A Cultural Review of West Market in Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty

West Market in Chang'an was bustling and flourishing before the late Tang Dynasty,an open public area for the court's political life and ordinary people's daily life,an indispensable urban economic region from emperor down to folks inside and outside Chang'an city,a city window opened to the closed old city,an exhibition place for various western and eastern goods and traders and merchants at home and abroad,a window to display the material progress of the glorious Tang Dynasty and the Silk Road civilization,an urban economic region for the greatest amount of currency in circulation and the greatest sales volume in the world,a world-renowed Gold Market.West Market has played an important and indispensable role in the politics,economics and culture of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty.