Tuesday, 11 August 2015
Next I was off to Xian to see the famous terracotta warriors. Wow, another amazing sight. They have found 7,000 warriors and they believe that there are possibly more still buried close by. I was awe-struck by the level of detail on each warrior. The warriors are life size and when you look closely at their faces you realize that they are all unique. They all have different faces and expressions or hair styles. It is hard to imagine how much work and how much time must have been put into these clay warriors. It would have taken a small army of workers to create this army.
It is believed that these warriors were created to protect first emperor of China in the afterlife. Sometime around 210 BCE these figures were buried with the emperor and rested there until 1974 when they were found by a farmer digging a well in the country side. Now this site is a massive museum that opened in 1979.
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