Emperor Qin Shi Huang's connoisseurs are one of the largest archaeology sites in the face of the earth and become the largest tourism destination in the People's Republic of China (RRC). A farmer who is looking for water accidentally found it in 1974 in the midst of the dry season.
The next digging was carried out by the team of the archaeology of the bamboo curtains and was the tomb of the emperor with 8.099 statues of soldiers, complete with the formation of the army as well as the combat horse. All sizes like original, with 1:1 ratio scale.
UNESCO embed the archaeological site located in Xian, this Shaanxi provincial capital as a world heritage site in 1987.
The site of the emperor's tombs reveals the materials and methods of making statues estimated to be aged 2,200 years. Researchers find ingredients used are clays that come from not far from site locations.
The clay is channeled to the sculptor who then began to make feet, bodies and hands. After the longest body formed, the face of the soldiers is the last part.
This is one of the special findings for researchers as it turns out that the face of the statues of these soldiers is not similar. Also found sand as a mixed material on the clay sculpture. It is estimated that the method of mixing sand and clay will facilitate the formation of sculptures and make sculptures durable.
In addition to the researchers found an indication that these statues were slowly heated. The no wonders of these statues are named the statue of the terracotta. It is taken from Italian (latin), terra-cotta (fueling), the crafts of the pottery originated from clay.
The terakota statue was watched for the general by the Chinese government, namely on October 1, 1979, coincided with the National Day of RRC. Meanwhile, the research continues to run until now.
There are many jobs that must be given by the archaeologists of the site that is now divided in three pits. The first Pit is a spacious hall, visitors can watch a little thousand statues of the soldiers of the emperor who pursued the formation of combat formation.
The second Pit, was found in 1976, the distance is not far from the first pit, contains 1,300 statues of horses with soldiers, and various types of conon weapons around thousands of the amount and all weapons are made of bronze. The third Pit is also found in 1976, the distance is about 25 meters from the first pit, in this location is only about 68 statues of the army, 4 horses and 1 train located near the emperor Qin Shi Huang tomb.
Ying Zheng, was born in 259 BC then rose the throne at the age of 13 years by the name Qin Shi Huang. During the reign, Qin Shi Huang managed to insist his leadership history by conquering six domestic rulers in China while closing the Zhou dynasty era.
Qin Shi Huang united China in its formed new dynasty, Qin Dynasty (221 SM). As well as the king added on the name after Huang who also means the king. Qin Shi Huangdi became the first emperor of China.
Since the accumulation and accumulation of China, the emperor realized several things in the conception of his union. The emperor conducts the diversity of letters and sizes applicable in China.
In contrast, the emperor also conducts burning against old philosophical books and blurring the life of the scholars who refuse to handed over their philosophy as it is considered to interfere with the power of the Qin Dynasty.
Shi Huangdi’s cruelty was also in the Chinese wall proposed its development in Qin Dynasty. The workers died in the completion process of this wall, buried inside the wall building.
The Chinese Seantero in his hands, all the potentials that are considered to give birth to rebels, are passed. He also houses 3,000 km from the previous generation.
But the emperor realized, that the whole who was achieved certainly can’t be enjoyed as a limited age. Begin he was obsessed and ordered to look for the eternal herbs.
Another willing nature, the first emperor of the Chinese died of young in his eternal-49 in 210 BC. Even the Qin Dynasty expected to last for 10,000 generations, can only last on two generations of his descendants.
The story of the Qin Dynasty rule is known from the ancient document 2,000 years old from the old well in the Hunan province area. Researcher of the University of Hunan studied 36,000 ancient forced wood sheets originated from 259 - 210 BC.
The invention of this archaeological invention has revealed the national commands of the Chinese emperor obsessed with the eternal. So when it was buried, built a large funeral complex complete with the statues of the soldiers with the completeness of the fight with the hope of the emperor can be kept in the next nature.
However, the "human" hoped that the emperor was actually taken over his soldiers with the concentration of the invention of the noble archaeological mass of the "old" of the terracotta soldiers that can last more than two thousand years.
Text and Photos Hermanus Prihatna
Author : Fanny Octavianus