When the Terracotta Warriors were first unearthed, they turned out to be like this: colorful like real people, and the mystery of the figure nine thousand years old!
1. Since its appearance, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang has been attracting the eyes of the world and is deeply loved by the people of all countries, and has been visited by more than 200 foreign heads of state and government, known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World", becoming a golden business card of China's ancient glorious civilization, and is known as one of the world's top ten ancient tombs.
2. Painted terracotta warriors. What is surprising is that the terracotta warriors were originally colored, after two thousand years of baptism, most of the colors have fallen off, and many pottery figurines only have mottled remnants on their bodies, and only a few figurines are as new as new.
3, this is the back of the newly unearthed painted figurines, through the analysis of the color of the clay figurines, you can generally understand the characteristics of various clothing colors of the Qin figurines, which provides valuable physical examples for the study of the clothing color and military uniform equipment of the Qin Dynasty.
4. Archaeologists who excavated the Terracotta Warriors through the early excavations said that the newly excavated painted terracotta warriors still have some traces of residual painting on the surface, and the paint layer under the paint will curl when exposed to the air for only fifteen seconds, and it will soon peel off, which is very regrettable.
5, we can still see some painted figurines today, but they are buried deep in the ground.
6. According to the archaeologists who participated in the excavation of these painted figurines, "The terracotta warriors themselves are life-sized, and with the addition of the paintings, they are really colorful and extremely shocking." "Due to the burning, collapse and repeated flash floods, most of the paintings on the surface of the terracotta figurines have long since disappeared.
7. Freshly unearthed painted terracotta warriors. The color of the Qin figurines is bright, but there is no uniform color. Among the many colors, the four colors of pink green, vermilion, pink purple and sky blue are used the most, so these four colors should be the main colors of the Qin figurine costumes, more subtly showing the mighty Qin army.
8, Qin figurine painting technology also has many unique features, from the pottery figurine pottery section observation, but also proved that the surface of the pottery figurines before firing was smeared with fine mud, in addition to coating a thin layer of similar to the gelatinous substance, so that the painting is not easy to fall off. After the terracotta army was unearthed, the surface water evaporated quickly, the surface paint was upturned and fell off, and the terracotta warriors we saw in modern times were the true color of the pottery tire, which appeared gray-headed and earthy!
9. Green-faced figurines. In addition to the black hair, beard, and pupils of this terracotta warrior, the color of the face is all painted green with stone green paint. Some people speculate that this is a prank by the craftsmen of the Qin Dynasty, some say that this is a military servant (priest), some say that this is to scare the enemy, some say that the craftsmen are colorblind, sometimes speculate that this is the creative work of the craftsmen, and some people think that this is a military scout (sentry), but in any case, because the green-faced figurine is too precious, it has become the only terracotta army that is forbidden to exhibit abroad.