Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors
Terracotta Warriors in Xian is a typical represent of Xian City and attracts a lot of international tourists to have a visit during China vacation tour. The Terracotta Warriors was founded in Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and was regarded as the art achievement from Qin Dynasty. Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is located in Xi’an, Shanxi Province, and 35 kilometers east of Lintong District territory. Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is the history of China’s first multi-ethnic, centralized state of the emperor. Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum was built in 246 BC and the grand construction was completed in 208 BC, it also is the China’s first emperor cemetery.
Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors tomb is located 1,500 meters east of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum cemetery. Terracotta Warriors tomb is facing to east, the three Terracotta Warriors tombs were arranged in a triangle. One figurines found in the first pit, rectangular, 230 meters from east to west, north and south, 62 meters wide, about 5 meters deep, with a total area of 14,260 square meters, surrounded by slopes doorway, right and left sides and have a terracotta pit, now known as 2nd hole and 3rd hole. Terracotta Horses, is the world’s largest underground military museum. Figurines pit rational layout, structure, peculiar, about 5 meters in depth Bottom, something every 3 meters to set up a load-bearing walls, terracotta warriors and horses arranged in the gap between the walls over the hole. Past, here is a cemetery; the local farmers in the grave-diggers had found something like human beings. In March 1974, the Mausoleum East West Yangcun villagers drought wells, three miles east of the tomb the next village and five refuse between the villages and found that large-scale Terracotta Warriors pit, excavated by archaeologists, was buried in the ground opened 2000 years ago terracotta treasures.
Tourists in Xian cannot miss the good opportunity to have a visit of in the famous Xian Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum; it is a good opportunity to learn Qin dynasty culture and its flourishing history in ancient China time.