Various and Vivid Works

The creating of the Terracotta Warriors, horses and weapons are various and vivid, based on the real life. The design and manufacturing of the Terracotta Warriors are full of ingenuity and had settled all the problems of production on a mass scale. Tens of thousands of individual human and animal statues were manufactured within a series of processes that began with the molding of solid legs. It was by constructing each of the hollow statues upon solid legs that the Ancient Chinese craftsmen solved the perplexing problem of how to make a statue free-standing.

Every terracotta warrior differs from one another in the hair style, gesture and the impression, from which you can tell the officers and soldiers apart and infantry and cavalry apart, and you may even tell where these soldiers are from as well.

Excavated bronze arms include sword, spear, curved knife and large amount of crossbows and arrows. Being buried under the ground for more than two thousand years, these arms are still sharp and new, which shows that the metallurgical technology of that time had been advanced already.

Various and Vivid Works

Visitors are amazed by this masterpiece created by the Qin people. Each plate of armor was ground by hand to achieve the perfect thickness of 0.3 centimeters. Archaeologists tried to reproduce this armor, but even the most modern tools can only cut a piece of plate armor to 0.5 centimeters. The detail on the ancient plates is also magnificent. It is difficult to imagine how the ancient people punched holes in the brittle limestone plates. Archaeologists believe that these early craftsmen ceaselessly sprayed water on the plates to keep them from breaking during the drilling process. To give you some perspective on the labor involved, three archaeologists spent three months to make 600 pieces of armor. Using this as a benchmark, they estimated that it took 3,600 artisans working for an entire year to create all of the armor in the pit.

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Emperor Qin Shihuang- an eternity emperor

Pit No.1: the largest pit among the three

Pit No.2: mysterious array of troops

Great discovery of Terracotta Warriors and Horses

Pit No.3: the supposed headquarter

Qin Terracotta Artisans-skilled but unfortunate creators

The Terra Cotta Warriors and Horses

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