Abstract. Correlation functions of the XXZ model in the massive and massless regimes are known to satisfy a system of linear equations. The main relations among them are the difference equations obtained from the qKZ equation by specializing the variables (λ 1 , · · · , λ 2n ) as (λ 1 , · · · , λ n , λ n + 1, · · · , λ 1 + 1). We call it the reduced qKZ equation. In this article we construct a special family of solutions to this system. They can be written as linear combinations of products of two transcendental functionsω, ω with coefficients being rational functions. We show that correlation functions of the XXZ model in the massive regime are given by these formulas with an appropriate choice ofω, ω. We also present a conjectural formula in the massless regime.