The Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin was repaired for 38 years, employing more than 700,000 people. In the underground world that Qin Shi Huang built for himself, the most mysterious and core is the underground palace under the huge seal, and in 1974, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were accidentally discovered, unveiling a corner of the mystery of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. Within the 56.25 square kilometers of the site, various funerary pits and tombs have been discovered one by one. 149 funerary pits and 196 tombs have been discovered.
In 1998, a stone armor pit was found in the northeast corner of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. The cave is not far from the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin.
After collation, a total of more than 120 pairs of stone armor have been excavated, which are divided into fish scale armor, za armor, extra-large armor and armor, and gizzard. At the first exhibition "Ten Thousand Years eternal treasure - Exhibition of Cultural Relics Protection Achievements in Chinese Collections", a set of restored stone armor was exhibited.
The appearance of the Qin Dynasty armor in full and completeness in front of him is not a fantasy, but a combination of Qin Shi Huang's "fantastic ideas" and the meticulous and meticulous "seamless" of restoration experts.
These nails are made of bluestone and are made by selecting, cutting, drilling, trimming and finishing. Among them, the number of nail tablets in the armor is as high as 850.
The smooth, regularly shaped pieces of stone armor have holes in them, and are connected with thin flat strips of copper, and there are two ways to connect them from the outside.
You can see the trunk, the chest and the abdomen, the connection is different, above the waist is the stone armor piece pressed below the stone nail piece, the abdomen is the bottom is the opposite. This connection in the abdomen facilitates activity below the waist.
The connection of the shoulder stone nail pieces is also in a way that is conducive to movement.
Stone gizzard.
The whole pair of stone armor is divided into eight parts: front body armor, rear body armor, front armor skirt, rear armor skirt, shoulders, and shawl.
Thanks to Qin Shi Huang's use of stone as armor to carry around, if it is bronze or iron armor (Qin Dynasty iron is not yet common, it should still be in the Bronze Age), two thousand years of age has long been corroded to no appearance. Only stone, even if the connecting copper wire decays and the nail pieces are scattered, it can eventually spell out the perfect armor.
In the darkness, the stone armor allowed us to see the equipment of the Qin Army two thousand years later. The Qin army was brave, but people also protected themselves first, not "bare-chested".
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