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Terra-Cotta Warriors: Ying Zheng's War Warrior

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Since he knew he could not be immortality, he prepared well his afterlife. He believed after he dead, and his spirit was still there, he could be an emperor as before. There had to be a proper army to protect him, and helped me to conquer the world after death. Consequently, he put many a large number of clay warriors in his tomb, then he could enjoy the same imperial status and the military power as his early lifetime. According to Lubow stated, "The artifacts offer a glimpse of the treasures that attract visitors from around the world to the Xi'an museum site, where 1,900 of an estimated 7,000 warriors have been disinterred so far"(36). Ying Zheng love using "brute force", he thought violent is the very thing to build his empire. No matter …show more content…
Lubow described," the statuary includes nine soldiers arranged in battle formation (armored officers, infantrymen, and standing and kneeling archers), as well as a terra cotta horse"(36) . The warriors were like normal size of human, and also they had different arm of the services. When he meet different kind of enemy, he can used different warrior. The most famous for Ying Zheng's tomb is Terra-Cotta Warriors, but the clay is not just soldiers. Ying Zheng thought far more than that. As Lubow explained, "The emperor's clay retinue includes terra cotta officials and even troupes of acrobats, slightly smaller than the soldiers but created with the same methods"(36). Ying Zheng even though about how to enjoy the happiness after he was dead. He might think after his finish conquer the world of after death, and he should have fun, and watched plays, so he brought even the acrobat with him. Lubow also quoted, " head of the excavation team's word, 'People thought when the emperor died, he took just a lot of pottery army soldiers with him. Now they realize he took a whole political system with him"(37)'. Ying Zheng planned everything, he thought the world of after death just like the human

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