In the Spring of 1974, several farmers from the Yang Village near Xi'an were digging a well when they stumbled across the most priceless archaeological discovery of modern times!
Excavations have un-earthed thousands of terracotta warriors, each with a unique facial expression and positioned according to their ranks.
They are a replica of the Qin army from more than 2,200 years ago and it was believed that each terracotta warriors were replicas of real Chinese soldiers.
The army of statues, numbering in the thousands, is testament of the forces the first Emperor of China had at his command.
Qin Shi Huang (259 - 210BC) was the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty and he was the founder of China's first empire after unifying the Seven Warring States. If this name sounded all too familiar, that was because he is the one who ordered the building and restoration of the Great Wall of China!
Upon ascending the throne at the age of 13, Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of his tomb which took 38 years to build and utilizing the labor of over 700,000 conscripts many of whom were killed to protect the privacy of the Emperor once it was done.
 时，无意间转到第五十频道正播放着《岁月神偷》。 原本以为是部有关小偷的故事因此没多大兴趣。但，因为有我所欣赏的演员 - 吴君如与任达华两人主演，所以决定继续看下去。 故事是由罗家次子罗进二 (钟绍图 饰) 的角度回顾了六，七...){kind=link}