In 1974, farmers were digging wells in a small village in Lintong County, Shaanxi Province, because of the dry weather. Later, a farmer found a pottery "samurai head" in the dirt, and the others immediately stopped their work and surrounded them. Later, after reporting, the pottery figurines were quickly found to be protected. In 1975 and 1985, after two large-scale excavations, the underground legion slowly revealed its true colors. The Qin Terracotta Warriors shocked the world, which is more like a huge underground army, excavating tens of thousands of soldiers, horse maids, and various production tools and weapons.
The advent of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses reproduced the magnificent momentum of the Great Qin army, which had been buried underground for nearly twenty-two centuries, so that people could clearly understand the Great Qin Empire. The terracotta warriors come in different shapes, and they are all shaped according to real people, and then after a series of processes, they are finally displayed in front of people. The craftsmanship of terracotta warriors is so complex that it is hard to imagine that people had such a craft more than two thousand years ago. Many terracotta warriors and horses come in different shapes, and the superb craftsmanship is really amazing. Every terracotta warrior that was unearthed was vivid, just like a living person, both in height and posture, very close, reproducing the magnificent momentum of the Qin army at that time. The facial expressions of the terracotta warriors are different, which makes people marvel at the production process at that time. Every year, a large number of Chinese and foreign tourists come here, and they are shocked after visiting the Terracotta Warriors.
The Terracotta Warriors are well-made, comparable to the replica of real people, in fact, the Terracotta Warriors were colored when they were first unearthed, but they were buried in the ground for a long time, and after touching the air, the color of the surface quickly oxidized and fell off, and finally looked like there was no color. In later excavations, due to advances in archaeological technology, some colorful terracotta warriors were excavated. And most of these terracotta warriors were painted purple. Although the color of the surface is a little peeled off, it still looks very delicate. The terracotta warriors are close to real people in both their looks and actions, just imagine how spectacular the terracotta warriors and horses scenes were made in those years, consuming a lot of manpower and material resources, if it were not for the strong national strength, it would not be possible to complete such a huge project.
But in these unearthed terracotta warriors, soldiers of all ranks have a common feature and do not wear helmets. In fact, in the era of cold weapons, helmets are an important defensive tool and play an important role on the battlefield. Wearing or not wearing a helmet directly affects the mortality rate of the army, but why do the terracotta warriors not wear it? Later, a batch of bamboo janes was found in Yunmeng County, Hubei Province, which revealed the mystery. In this batch of bamboo janes, a characteristic of the Qin Dynasty army is recorded, that is, it is not afraid of death. It makes sense that the Qin Dynasty army was called the Tiger and Wolf Division. After the Shang martingale changed the law, soldiers were encouraged to make meritorious achievements, so on the battlefield, soldiers fought regardless of life and death in order to be able to establish meritorious service. This measure of Shang Martin broke the shackles of the people at the bottom who were difficult to add officials and knighthoods, and was naturally highly respected.
During the Qin Dynasty, the policy of rewarding military merit greatly boosted the morale of the army, so the Qin army was also called the division of tigers and wolves. Because killing the enemy can add officers to the knighthood, many soldiers in order to change the fate of themselves and the entire family, so they fight to kill the enemy on the battlefield. The terracotta warriors we see wear less armor and don't wear helmets. At that time, the armor had a strong protective effect on the soldiers, and ordinary people could not wear armor, if the armor was found in the homes of ordinary people, it would even be cursed by the Nine Tribes, and the helmet was naturally important as part of the armor, but the terracotta warriors excavated did not have helmets. Later, after some research, some scholars said that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang did not wear helmets and almost went to battle shirtless, mainly because they were affected by the policy of rewarding military merit. Although the armor at that time had a strong protective effect, it was very bulky and breathless, and after a long battle, the armor would be soaked with sweat and inconvenient on the battlefield.
Therefore, most of the Qin Dynasty soldiers were more willing to go to the battlefield without wearing helmets, and under the stimulation of military merit, they almost forgot about life and death, only knew how to kill the enemy, and only wore armor on weak parts of their bodies to do a good job of simple protection. For the soldiers, they wanted to make meritorious achievements, once on the battlefield, the Qin army was like a bamboo, able to quickly break the enemy's defense line, which was called the tiger and wolf division by other countries at that time. The policy of rewarding military merit greatly stimulated the combat effectiveness of the Qin army, so the Qin army was invincible in one battle after another, and finally was able to unify the six countries. The Qin Dynasty was able to unify the world, and there was no fluke, it was completely fought by the army, and the Qin army was called the Tiger and Wolf Division.
The Terracotta Warriors and Horses have been underground for more than twenty centuries, and for posterity, these Terracotta Warriors and Horses are a testimony to the military strength of the Qin Dynasty. People even call the Qin Dynasty Terracotta Warriors and Horses an underground military museum two thousand years ago, which is incomparably spectacular and magnificent. The Qin Dynasty Terracotta Warriors and Horses did not wear helmets mainly related to the policy of rewarding military merit at that time, and the morale of the army was greatly increased under the encouragement of this policy, and the soldiers were more willing to go into battle lightly and make meritorious achievements.