Terracotta Warriors

Terra Cotta Warriors (Terracotta, Army; Terra-cotta Figures; soldier and horse figures) is a category of sculpture of ancient tombs. Ancient implementation of martyrdom, slaves, slave owners during his lifetime accessories slaveholders after the death of slaves for the slave owners buried sacrificial lambs.The terracotta warriors and horses that is made the sacrificial lambs of the horses (chariots, horses, soldiers) shape.

Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit Horses of Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, located in the cemetery to the east side at 1500 m. Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Horses ride west to east, the Sankeng a triangle shape. Figurines pit No. 1 is the first discovered, rectangular, east to west is 230 meters long, 62 meters wide from north to south, about five meters deep, with a total area of 14,260 square meters, surrounded by slopes Yue Mun Road, left and right sides each have one of terracotta warriors and horses pit, now known as 2 pit and on the 3rd hole. Figurines pit rational layout, peculiar structure of the bottom of the pit in about five meters deep, at intervals of 3 m to set up a thing to the load-bearing walls, terracotta warriors and horses arranged in the hole.

March 1974, when  the mausoleum East the West Yangcun villagers drought drilling wells in the tomb east of the next village and five garbage village between large-scale Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit excavations by archaeologists. only opened the treasures of 2000 years ago, the terracotta figures buried in the ground. In 1975 the state decided to establish a museum figurines pit on the site. October 1, 1979 Terracotta Warriors Museum to domestic and foreign visitors to display. 1:00 pm on June 13, 2009, the Terracotta Army Pit digging, and then in the middle of the North Pit, but also color terracotta warriors and horses unearthed.

Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Horses, is the world's largest underground military museum.

The Terracotta Army is the world's archaeological history of the greatest discoveries of. In 1978, former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac after the visit, said: "With seven wonders of the world, the discovery of the terracotta figures, can be said that the Eight Wonders of the terracotta figures can not be considered to have been to China." Since then, the terracotta figures to be the world as the "eight Wonders of the three figurines pit has been excavated.

Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum is China's largest ancient military museum. In 1961, the State Council of the People's Republic of China Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum as a national cultural relics protection units. Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is the first comprehensive archaeological survey began. 1962, the archaeologists to map out the first cemetery layout map, upon detection, the cemetery range of 56.25 square kilometers, equivalent to nearly 78 Forbidden City, causing a stir in archaeological circles. 1987, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum and Terracotta Warriors pit was approved by the UNESCO as "World Heritage List, and known as" the world's eighth largest miracle ", the Qin terracotta warriors and horses proud of all the Chinese people, so that people around the world marvel.