Terracotta Army

Someone has estimated that one terracotta warrior's weight is around 300 kg but it may not be accurate, just for reference.

The first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi, had the warriors built in his tomb. There are 8000 of them, each with individual faces!

No one knows specifically how many artisans built the Terracotta Army, because the workers were believed to be buried alive after its completion.

The Terracotta Army was part of Qin Shi Huan Di's tomb which is still yet to be completely uncovered to this day.

Qin Shi Huan Di's tomb took ~36 years and hundreds of thousands of workers to build. Again, no exact figures are possible because it is believed the entire hundreds of thousands strong workforce was all buried alive/killed after the tomb was completed.

The tomb of the Terracotta Army was discovered on March 29, 1974 by farmers who were digging a water well.

In ancient China, living sacrifice was quite ordinary. Especially when kings or members of royal family died, their favorite concubines, servants, steeds and other animals should go with their masters as an expression of loyalty. That is to kill themselves or be killed on the funeral ceremony and buried alongside the coffin. Later, Chinese rulers started to realise the superiority was brought accompanied by the harmfulness to their regime, thus figures was used to replace living beings. However, it was just a new trend appeared at that time, the old funeral custom was still prevalent prior to the Qin Dynasty.

Qin Shihuang, as the first Chinese emperor, unified the whole territory of the country and made great contributions in military, economic, cultural fields. He is also known to be very ambitious and despotic. During the construction of his mausoleum (afterlife palace), he spared no expense and levied labors all over the country. But he didn't follow the custom to use living sacrifice for himself, a group of delicate soldier figures were made instead, which reflects more than personal superiority but national strength.

The Terracotta Warriors are involved with a lot of ancient Chinese advanced technologies, however, that may not be the most important for this topic. The large scale application of figures buried in tombs brought about ideological changes, profoundly affected the next several dynasties.

The point is to protect the emperor's tomb, and to show how powerful he was.

The tomb of Qin Shi Huang is actually more like a city. The soldiers themselves are in three pits east of this and the tomb itself.

The Terracotta Warriors vary in height. They are on average 1.84 metres tall. Amongst these statues, the shortest one is of height 1.75 metres. And there are many statues above 1.90 metres.

The First Emperor of China, Shi Huangdi, believed that he would need his army in the afterlife.

This phenomenon reflects some of the Chinese funeral custom and strict class differentiation in the past. To ordinary people, tombs were like piles of soil with some plants on it for recognising purpose. However, to those rich and powerful, who want to show their superiority, tombs were enlarged to the size of small hills, well decorated and occupied certain amount of lands for this specific use. Moreover, the size of tombs were closely relate to the social status of the tomb's owner, in other words, even if somebody can afford to build a bigger tomb, it isn't allowed and accepted by the contemporary social institutions. The Terracotta Army guarding the emperor's tomb is an attribute of imperial power so it also of high class status. However, it still cannot be compared with the emperor's tomb, which is a hundreds-meters-high mountain with buildings buried in it.

Because there were thousands of those warriors made vividly, still standing and preserved well for over 2000 years! And because they were found with many bronze weapons, chariots and other valuable stuff which are buried under the ground.

First of all, you can call him "Qin Shihuang" or "Shi Huangdi", but not 'Qin Shi Huangdi".

Then, yes he owned the Terracotta army. They were built in order to protect the tomb of this emperor.

China, there are tousands

The Terracotta Army was found at the foot of the mountain Lishan (骊山) in Lintong County (临潼县, today's Lintong Distract of Xi'an), 1.5 km to the east of Qin Shihuang's Tomb (秦始皇陵). Around the findspot, there was stony and deserted land, where local people seldom went to, so the Terracotta Army was found by sheer coincidence.

The Terracotta Army was made of yellow clay, which is mainly composed of silicon oxide, aluminium oxide, ferric oxide, has the same structure and texture with Qin's eave tile. But the source of clay are not the same for making warriors and horses. and the dick was real

because china is boring and they need music to enjoy themselves

The standing army of the PLA (People's Liberation Army) is about 2.25 million men, with a total of about 7.5 million troops in all militry and paramilitary units, and as many as 40 million reserve or civilian guards. They have over 18,000 tanks and are supported by over 2000 planes of the Air Force, the largest in Asia.

The limitation on the Chinese armed forces is the logistical challenge of arming and modernizing these forces. Technology is slowly becoming part of the overall system, which until the 1990's was based almost exclusively on numerical superiority.

Terracotta is an earthenware clay. It contains, in addition to the usual clay minerals of alumnia and silica, a fair amount of iron oxide, which gives it the characteristic red colour.

The Qin Dynasty

The terracotta worriors site was miraculous archeological discovery in 1974, peasants digging a well about 1500 meters east of the tomb uncovered an underground vault of earth and timber and subsequent excavation revealed thousands of terracotta figures, life-size warriors and their horses all in battle formation - a whole army which would follow its emperor into immortality!

The emperor who wanted the Terracotta Warriors was Qin Emperor Shi Huangdi.

We are not sure about that but Qin Shi Huang was buried with more than 7500 unique terracotta warriors and clay statues of the warriors were made too. This shows that the emperor was very wealthy. (:

The tomb of Qin was found in 1974, by Chinese peasants who were drilling a well.