When I got up the next morning, I went downstairs to eat breakfast in the restaurant of the Express Hotel, took a bite of the hotel's bun, and gave up decisively. Xi'an is full of delicious breakfasts, and I can't let this quick-frozen bun occupy my stomach.
Next to my hotel was a breakfast shop, and when I looked at it, it was peppery soup.
In my limited cognition at that time, I thought that Henan's Peppery Soup was very famous, but I didn't expect that Xi'an people also liked Peppery Soup? Looking at the long line at the door of the shop, I felt the need to go inside and try it.
I lifted the curtain of the bunk and walked into the smoky, steaming room, where I couldn't even see who to order.
In the end, I asked for a bowl of peppery soup and a meat sandwich bun. The meat sandwich steamed bun in this house is not the same as I usually eat, there is no gravy, there is no coriander and green pepper, just meat, is it a donkey meat fire? I'm not sure, but it was delicious.
Peppery soup
Meat sandwich buns
I walked to the hotel where the Lao Luo family was staying, met Lao Luo in the lobby, he was waiting for me, he said to me: Paul, good morning, my family is eating breakfast, I need you to take me to the bank and withdraw some cash.
I took Lao Luo to a bank next to the hotel, and Lao Luo used his VISA credit card to withdraw cash in US dollars.
We filled out several forms, copied Lao Luo's passport, and even copied my ID card, and the bank manager had to apply to the superior bank, and after obtaining authorization, he could give Lao Luo money.
After collecting the money, I called a car and took the Brazilian family to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang to see the Terracotta Warriors.
The Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin is located in the Lintong District of Xi'an City, about 1 and a half hours by car, we got out of the car, on the chest of several local tour guides hanging tour guide cards, asked us if we want to explain.
I explained to Lao Luo: This place, in the world's popularity, second only to the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, those two places in Beijing, I know, I can tell you, but here, I am also the first time to come, I need a Chinese to explain, after explaining to me, I am telling you, so, in our team, there will be an additional Chinese. I hope that we will come once and we will gain something, and in such a place as the Terracotta Warriors, we will look at it in three points and talk about it in seven points.
After the Lao Luo family agreed, I asked several tour guides: How much does it cost to explain Chinese?
The other side almost all said in unison: 200.
I know sometimes they love to play word games, and I need to confirm: 200 per person, or 6 of us, add up to 200?
One of the female tour guides said: Just a few of you, go in from the entrance, each exhibition hall will explain it to you clearly, after that, you are willing to walk around inside, you give me 200 yuan, I will not accompany you.
Well, the price is acceptable, I said to the female guide: Okay, just you, take us to visit.
The female tour guide took us to buy tickets to enter, the entrance can rent a battery car, you can save a lot of walking, but the Lao Luo family wants to walk, our group will walk slowly, the female tour guide began to introduce the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Museum.
She said a few words, stopped, and waited for me to convey her meaning to the Lao Luo family, and then she continued to say that the Lao Luo family would also have questions for her to answer, and she could answer them like a stream.
Standing in front of the electronic map at the entrance of the exhibition hall, the female tour guide told us the layout of the entire Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum one by one to the colored dots on the map, I felt very shocked, I can understand the area described by the tour guide as the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, when it was discovered here more than 40 years ago, it shocked the world, and then even known as "one of the eight wonders of the world".
When we walked into the real Exhibition Hall No. 1, the Lao Luo family was shocked by the column of soldiers in front of them!
Clad in armor, these warriors look ahead, their right hands in a ring, and the tour guide told us that this time the warriors had all held weapons in their hands.
Lao Luo asked: Where did the weapon go? In 2000 years, wood can rot and bronze cannot rot.
The female tour guide said: After the fall of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu invaded Xianyang, and it is recorded in the history books that Xiang Yu burned his palace room, dug his grave, burned the Xianyang Palace of the Qin Dynasty, and dug the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, but he failed to open the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, but only carried out large-scale destruction of the burial pit of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum.
Xiang Yu set fire to the Qin Tomb, all the buildings on the ground were gone, and the real swords and spears held by the soldiers in the funeral pit were also snatched away by Xiang Yu to arm their own troops.
You see above the wall of the tunnel, and on the body of the soldiers, there are traces of black fire.
Lao Luo nodded: "It's so shocking, I feel very real, this is the real history, 2000 years ago, the Chinese soldiers were like this, the hairstyle, this is how to line up the war."
Terracotta warriors in restoration
The female tour guide said: In fact, almost all the terracotta warriors are buried in the ground in a broken, fragmented manner, and archaeologists need to clean up little by little, pieced together piece by piece, in order to restore to the state they see now. Moreover, when the terracotta warriors were unearthed, they were all colored, that is, they were all colored clay figurines, but once unearthed, the color quickly disappeared.
The female guide then said: Let's go to Hall 2 to see, where you can see how the archaeologists work on site.
The second exhibition hall is indeed an archaeological site, where you can see the fragments of the pottery figurines that have just been excavated, and the staff is carefully cleaning up.
The main people in this pit are crossbowmen, cavalry, and chariots, all of which are formed into a phalanx according to the types of soldiers, and we also watched the pottery figurines of each class at close range.
Standing archery
The tour guide said: Archers do not need to wear armor, because the two armies are fighting, the first attack method is to shoot arrows or crossbows, after a rain of arrows, the other side will die almost, those who are not dead are all shields, the archers will retreat, giving up the combat space, the second attack is to rely on cavalry and chariots, there is a strong impact, to break the enemy's formation, the third attack is the infantry to slash and kill, because the enemy basically has no combat effectiveness.
Kurama maid
Senior officers' maids
The knot on the armor of a senior officer's servant is his rank.
The tour guide then introduced: The Qin army can sweep through the six countries and unify China, relying on two things, do you know what it is?
I said: First-class military merit system? I knew this one.
The female tour guide said: Yes, one of them is the first-level military merit system. When the Qin army fights, after killing the enemy, it will cut off the enemy's head, one head will be upgraded one level, two heads will be upgraded two levels, and the head is also called "first", which is the origin of the first level. Ordinary soldiers of the Qin Army knew that as long as they bravely killed the enemy, they could get real rewards and promotions. Rewards include promotion of land and rank. Therefore, on the battlefield, the Qin soldiers fought with extraordinary bravery.
I translated the words of the female tour guide to the Lao Luo family, and Mrs. Lao Luo and his daughter said: que horrível! (It was horrible).
Lao Luo nodded and said: Although it is cruel, it can greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the army. In any era, fairness is a prerequisite for social development.
The female tour guide then introduced: In fact, the Qin Army also has a magic weapon to win, that is, the standardization of weapon production, every part of the Qin crossbow, if it fails, there are accessories that can be replaced, which was unimaginable before 2000. There are 100,000 crossbows in the country, and the parts can be interchanged, which means that on the battlefield, the weapons are damaged, the old can be dismantled and replaced, which greatly improves the efficiency of logistics support, and the main parts are engraved with the name of the craftsman, and the quality problem can be held accountable.
The female tour guide turned sharply and said: However, if there are deserters on the battlefield, or if the weapon parts are not assembled, it is not only necessary to punish one person's crime, but the whole family is guilty, which is called sitting.
This harsh punishment led to a peasant revolt, and the Qin Dynasty soon collapsed.
The female tour guide introduced us to the copper carriage and horse composed of more than 3,000 parts, and I saw that Lao Luo almost stuck his face on the glass to see, while looking at it, he said to his family: You see these parts are too fine, and there was such casting technology in Chinese before 2000.
After watching the copper carriage and horse, the female tour guide said goodbye to us, her 2-hour explanation task was completed, I paid 200 yuan to her, she left, Lao Luo wanted to make up 200 yuan for me, I said: No, this is what I should pay.
Old Luo nodded and gave me a thumbs up.
After that, we went to the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and when I told them: The hill in front of us is a man-made sealed earth, and below is the mausoleum of the first emperor of China.
The Brazilian family did not believe it anyway.
In their minds, no emperor could move a mountain and put it on his tomb.
I asked them to go online and look up the information themselves. I also told him that this mausoleum, and the terracotta warrior funerary pit I just saw, is a world cultural heritage, and in 1987, it was the same batch of world cultural heritage as the Great Wall of the Forbidden City, and it was also the first batch of world cultural heritage in China.
The Terracotta Warriors and Horses Exhibition Hall is about 2 kilometers from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and I told Lao Luo that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses I just saw were only two of the 400 funerary pits of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, and the rest were underground and had not been excavated. They were scattered around the hill and accompanied China's first emperor.
Lao Luo was completely convinced and said to me: This is indeed a miracle, but why did the emperor do this?
I said: The emperor of China, who wishes to die in another world, also has everything he had when he was alive, and his entire administration, military, and life should be copied in another world.
Lao Luo said: No wonder the people want to revolt.
Lao Luo asked: Did China consider opening the mausoleum of the first emperor so that people could enter the interior of the mausoleum to visit?
I said: From a scientific and technological point of view, it is possible to open the mausoleum, there will be cultural relics that we do not know, we can not protect; from a cultural point of view, Chinese think that the emperor is a dragon, although the status of the dragon in the Qin and Han dynasties is far less high than in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but now people will also think that Qin Shi Huang is the ancestral dragon of China, and it is not serious to open his mausoleum for tourists to visit. Chinese talk about blood and inheritance, and this emperor lying on the ground has a special significance in China, so let him lie quietly underground.
You're a tourist, you get to an attraction, and your mental process is: I'm here, I'm conquering, right?
Let's show this big brother out, protect him with a glass cover, and let countless people come and conquer him? That's not quite right.
The Lao Luo family was amused by me, I was telling the truth, they could understand.
I took the Lao Luo family out of the scenic spot, took a taxi back to Xi'an City for lunch, the scenic spot is expensive and not delicious, there are many Western restaurants in Xi'an City, I took them to eat a Portuguese meal, there are paella, cod, pasta, egg tarts.
After finishing the meal, it was already more than 3 p.m., Lao Luo's daughter said that she wanted to go shopping in the mall, and did not want to go to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, so I sent Lao Luo back to the hotel, his young son was also tired, stayed in the hotel to accompany Lao Luo, I took Mrs. Lao Luo, and her son and daughter from the hotel, along the street outside the Yongning Gate, all the way to the south, that street is full of hotels and shopping malls.
They bought clothes in UYK, and told me that the clothes here are cheap, and Lao Luo's daughter also looked at the gold and jade at the jewelry counter, and she said that jade is too expensive, and there are many such jades in Brazil.
Lao Luo's son bought HW's mobile phone, also because the price is much cheaper than Brazil, and Huawei mobile phone is very international, the mobile phone system comes with Portuguese, he can use it by inserting the card.
After shopping, I took a taxi to the Tang Dynasty City that never sleeps, opposite the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, I told them about Xuanzang's deeds of going to India to get Buddhist scriptures outside the Scenic Area of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, real people and real things, after he returned to China, he translated the scriptures in this Great Ci'en Temple.
We walked on the pedestrian street of the Tang Dynasty Sleepless City, on both sides are magnificent imitation Tang dynasty buildings, there are colored lights on the side of the road, there are small merchants selling sugar gourds, selling Zhen cakes, and small gifts such as noodle people.
Night view of the city that never sleeps
My personal experience is that the night view of this street alone compares the night view of Beijing.
After walking this pedestrian street, we called a car back to the hotel, and Lao Luo waited for me at the hotel.
Lao Luo settled all the expenses for me and gave me a lot of tips.
Lao Luo said: Paul, tomorrow we go to Shanghai, thank you very much for your company these days, from now on, you have a family in Brazil, the door of my home is always open to you, you take your wife and children, come to Brazil to play, be sure to contact me, we live in Rio, where is the world famous tourist resort.
I said, "Well, when I go to Brazil, I'll definitely contact you." Tomorrow I will take you to the high-speed train station. Three days later, we met in Beijing, and I returned the suitcase to you.
After I separated from Lao Luo, I went back to the hotel where I was staying, and I thought about it: tomorrow I will send them to the high-speed rail station, I will return the ticket to Beijing tomorrow, I will stay in Xi'an for two more days, I did not go to the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the provincial Bo, and Huaqingchi, the Bell Tower Drum Tower Stele Forest, I did not go to it. Anyway, the round-trip tickets are all there, the most is the accommodation, dinner and tickets, play for two days and then go back, and do not delay to return the suitcase to Lao Luo.
After making up this idea, I fell into a deep sleep, and I was really tired.
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