Friends who have been to the Qin Shi Huang Terracotta Warriors and Horses may be shocked by the scene of the Qinling Terracotta Warriors, indeed, the orderly formations of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit even after more than 2,000 years, it still looks amazing, such a grand scale of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, is very rare in the history of the world. The Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang are therefore also known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
However, when you visit the Qinling Terracotta Warriors, have you ever paid attention to one detail, that is, all the Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses are single eyelids.
So the question arises: Didn't some experts say that the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang were all customized according to the appearance of the soldiers at that time? Could it be that the soldiers of the Qin State at that time were all single eyelids?
As we all know, people's eyelids are brought out of the womb, there are people with single eyelids, people with double eyelids, and people with dragon and phoenix eyes. Why are the soldiers of the Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses uniform, all with single eyelids?
In order to uncover the mystery that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qinling are all single eyelids, Fang Yuan consulted many materials and found out three reasons.
1. Process reasons
The terracotta warriors in the terracotta warriors and horses pit of Qin Shi Huang are actually the burial figurines of Qin Shi Huang, and the purpose of Qin Shi Huang's creation of these terracotta warriors is to show the world the powerful national strength and military strength of the Qin State. The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang is a window for the world to understand the appearance of the Qin State more than 2,000 years ago, so that modern people can see the battles of the Qin army, the spiritual outlook and equipment of the soldiers in that year without crossing, which is a valuable cultural heritage left by Qin Shi Huang for us.
The terracotta warriors and horses in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor are very diverse and numerous, and the production of these terracotta warriors is a huge project. Archaeologists have found that at that time there were specialized institutions or factories to make these clay figurines. This discovery doomed the nature of the Qinling Terracotta Warriors—they were a product, not a work of art. It is a product, there will be corresponding production standards and process requirements.
It is undeniable that looking at these terracotta warriors "through time and space" with the eyes of our modern people, each of them can be called a work of art. However, after all, they are not works of art created by the artist alone, they are products produced by the factory, and in the process of producing these terracotta figurines in the factory, perhaps for standardization, perhaps to simplify the procedure, so each terracotta army is made into a single eyelid, and the single eyelid is the production process standard of the terracotta army.
2. Disappearing double eyelids
In the process of archaeological excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Qinling, most of the terracotta warriors excavated by archaeologists were unearthed with gray heads and earth faces. However, they were not necessarily buried like this, and it is likely that they were colored, as several colorful terracotta warriors have been excavated so far.
Since the terracotta warriors were colored when they were buried, is it possible that these terracotta warriors were made according to a single eyelid when they were made, and then when they were painted with oil paint, the craftsmen painted double eyelids according to each person's actual appearance? Just like our modern makeup technique, it is possible to draw the effect of double eyelids with an eyebrow pencil.
This reasoning is very likely, but because the terracotta warriors are buried in the ground more than 2,000 pieces, most of the paint on the surface of the terracotta warriors has corroded and fallen off, so there are no terracotta warriors with double eyelids.
3. Genetic factors
If the above two factors are excluded, then it is very likely that the Qin people more than 2,000 years ago were indeed single eyelids. If that's the case, it's related to genes.
During the Qin and Han dynasties, the blood of the Han people was still relatively pure, and at that time, the Han people rarely intermarried with people outside the region. Bold inference: Due to the factor of bloodline, the Han people at that time were all single eyelids. This can be seen from the murals unearthed in the tombs of the Han Dynasty and Tang Dynasty, the maids in the Han tomb murals are almost all single eyelids, and most of the Hua Dan in the Chinese National Peking Opera are also painted as Dan Phoenix Eyes when applying makeup, and Dan Phoenix Eyes are also single eyelids.
After the Han Dynasty, the exchanges between the Han people and the outside world increased, especially after the "Five Hu Chaohua", many Westerners, Turks, Persians, and Indians came to China, and they also involved intermarriage in addition to promoting economic and cultural exchanges with China.
As we all know, most of the Central Asian and European people are double eyelids, from the genetic analysis: single eyelid is recessive inheritance, double eyelid is dominant inheritance, dominant gene has a covering effect on recessive genes, so when genetically determining the inheritance of genes, single eyelids are "hit" but double eyelids. Therefore, after the development of exotic intermarriage, the number of people with double eyelids in the Han people gradually increased.
Archaeological research has proved that before the Qin Dynasty, it was rare for Han people to intermarry with foreigners, so the genes of Han people at that time were still relatively pure. Probably at that time, most of the Han people were single eyelids, and because of this, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang were modeled on the image of the Great Qin soldiers, all the soldiers were single eyelids, the craftsmen did not consider double eyelids, and perhaps those craftsmen had never seen double eyelids.
epilogue
In fact, whether it is a single eyelid or a double eyelid is only a manifestation of human characteristics, the terracotta warriors unearthed from the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang are all single eyelids may be the technical requirements of the craft production of that year, or it may be because the Han people at that time were single eyelids. Anyway, I personally think that this single eyelid is more attractive and more suitable for Chinese traits.
Why the Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses are all single eyelids of this academic problem, at present even experts do not have a precise explanation, the above three reasons are Fang Yuan's own data analysis, may be too accurate, I hope to understand or study this aspect of friends and experts to correct.