French President Jacques Chirac: "There are seven wonders in the world, and the discovery of the Qin figurines can be said to be eight wonders." Not looking at the pyramids does not really go to Egypt, and not looking at the Qin figurines does not really go to China. ”
Internationally recognized seven wonders of the world are: The Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Olympian Zeus, the Mausoleum of Mosolas, the Colossus of the Sun God of Rhode Island and the Lighthouse of Alexandria.
The Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses are indeed the crystallization of the wisdom of china's ancient five thousand years, and it is worthy of the name to be called the eighth wonder of the world. Its production technology is exquisite, and the terracotta warriors depicted are exquisite, especially the nose, eyebrows, eyes, ears, mouth features, and the details of clothing, armor, belts, hooks and other details, which are exactly the same as real people. What is valuable is that the terracotta warriors are "thousands of people and thousands of faces", each one is different, and it is not made of molds.
So a chilling speculation followed as to whether the terracotta warriors were burned with living people. For example, in the 1989 TV series "Ancient and Modern Wars against Qin Figurines", there was a scene of living people making pottery figurines, which was designed based on this speculation. So are the terracotta warriors of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum really made of living people?
In ancient China, especially in slave society, martyrdom was prevalent, that is, slave owners let a large number of slaves accompany them to burial when they died. Even in feudal society, there were many funerals, such as Dorgon's biological mother Abahai who gave Nurhaci a martyrdom.
In the pre-Qin period, the system of human martyrdom was the most prosperous, although Qin Xiangong abolished the system of human martyrdom. However, it is difficult to completely prohibit it, and human martyrdom still occurs frequently. So could Qin Shi Huang, who had never come before or since, adopt a system of human martyrdom?
This is very likely, and many wild histories record that a large number of craftsmen who built the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang were sealed in the mausoleum and buried with them. Because Xiang Yu burned the ground annex of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum at the end of the Qin Dynasty, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were buried deep underground. For more than two thousand years, the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses have been buried deep underground, and it is not known that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were burned by real people.
The discovery of the Terracotta Warriors was an accidental event. In March 1974, a villager in Xiahe Village, Shaanxi Province, drilled a well and dug up a pottery man and some ceramic fragments in the soil. He didn't feel right, so he asked the county cultural relics bureau to let the experts see what kind of cultural relics it was.
Since then, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, which have been buried for more than 2,000 years, have finally seen the light of day. 2,000 years is too long, and the relevant records about the Qin Terracotta Warriors have been lost in the long river of history. Therefore, the Qin Terracotta Warriors after the re-sighting of the day were covered with a mysterious veil, and there was speculation about whether it was fired for real people.
At a time when everyone was arguing endlessly, experts in the Qin Terracotta Army finally came out to refute the rumors. Experts clearly stated that the terracotta warriors of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin were fired from clay and had nothing to do with the living. What basis do they have?
It turned out that during the excavation of the Qin Terracotta Warriors, some of the pottery figurines had some different degrees of damage, and some were even broken. And the truth is in the middle of these broken figurines. These shattered terracotta centers are empty and do not have anything stuffed in them. Normally speaking, if the terracotta warriors are imitated by real people, even after a thousand years, there will be human tissue and bones left behind, and there will be some clues. For example, dinosaurs hundreds of millions of years ago, there are fossils left.
The Terracotta Army, which is only 2,000 years away from now, if it is really imitated by real people, it is impossible to leave even the ashes. However, after high-tech detection of these terracotta terracotta clays, experts have not found any traces of human tissue residues. This has broken the rumor that the so-called terracotta warriors are burned by real people, and the mystery has finally been revealed.
So why are these terracotta warriors so realistic and lifelike that they cause people to think wildly?
This is related to the craftsmen who burned the terracotta warriors. In the Qin Dynasty, there was a system of "wule gong name", that is, every handmade person would engrave his own name on the work. If there is a quality problem with this item, you can trace the source and find the craftsman who made this work of art. This strengthens the control and management of craftsmen, and is also conducive to the improvement of the quality of works.
In some hidden places on the excavated clay figurines and pottery horses, archaeologists have found some carved or stamped characters. The number of words is very small, generally only 2 words, and the guess should be the name of the potter. These excellent potters engraved their own names on each piece of their work, and in case of a quality problem one day, the government could find a maker, repair it, or punish it. In order to avoid punishment and avoid being held accountable, they worked hard and used their housekeeping skills to make the terracotta warriors exquisite. It is precisely because of the "craftsman spirit" of the potters of the Qin Dynasty that the terracotta warriors that "use false chaos to confuse the real" were produced.
In fact, as long as you think about it, you know how absurd and ignorant it is to suspect that the terracotta warriors are burned with real people. Just imagine, no matter how disciplined the army is, it will not stand there and let the potters burn it.