May 5th, 2005
Seeing the Terracotta Warriors was the most impressive thing yet. The Great Wall is an architectural wonder, the Warriors on the other hand is about something so much more. Over 2,000 years ago, Qin Shi Huangdi, the first emperor, created China through war.
The Chinese believe that when you die, the person’s soul continues on into the afterlife. An object here can become an object in the afterlife. Seven hundred thousand workers spent 36 years creating life-size terracotta warriors to protect the Emperor’s spirit in the afterlife.
The Terracotta Warriors were discovered in 1974, by farmers digging a well in the proximity of the tomb. What has been excavated today is just a fraction what still lies beneath the ground.
Each warrior stands close to six feet tall and although the bodies were mass-produced, each face is different.
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