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A Terra-Cotta Warrior, also known as Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior, is a 1989 Hong Kong film based on the novel by Lilian Lee, directed by Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Zhang Yimou and Gong Li.
Apr 12, 1990 · A Terra-Cotta Warrior: Directed by Siu-Tung Ching. With Yimou Zhang, Gong Li, Tian-Ming Wu, Rongguang Yu. China 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned.
The Terracotta Army was constructed to accompany the tomb of China's First Emperor as an afterlife guard. There are thousands of detailed life-size terracotta soldier models represent the guard troops of the first emperor — Qin Shihuang. They were molded in parts, fired, then assembled and painted. The Terracotta Army Museum in Xi'an is a ...
Discovered in 1974, Terracotta Warriors and Horses, officially named as Emperor Qinshihuang's Mausoleum Site Museum, is one of the greatest archeological finds in 20th century, and it definitely should be on your bucket list. Type: World Heritage Site, Historical Site, Specialty Museum. Best Seasons: All Seasons.
On March 29, 1974, the first in an extensive collection of terra-cotta warriors was discovered in Xian, China. Local farmers came across pieces of a clay figure, and these shards led to the discovery of an ancient tomb, vast in its size and number of artifacts.
The terracotta army left a legacy however, as funeral terracotta armies are known from later dynasties, although in a less stern and militaristic style, and with much smaller statuettes, such as the Western Han Yangjiawan terracotta army (195 BCE) or Yangling terracotta army (141 BCE).
Apr 19, 2024 · Near the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huang —who proclaimed himself first emperor of China in 221 B.C.E.—lay an extraordinary underground treasure: an entire army of life-size terra-cotta...
