Qin Shihuang ordered Li Qi to collect thousands of boys and girls in advance to prepare for his martyrdom. Reese was dumbfounded when he saw the imperial edict. He thought that recruiting so many people to die would be strongly opposed by the people. Once the people rise up, the Qin Dynasty will never have peace. But if you don't do this, you will offend Shi Chun and you will die.

After careful consideration, I had to write a letter, which said, "I, Reese, risked my life to tell you the truth." You recruit so many boys and girls to be martyred, which is bound to cause riots all over the world. It is better to use the Tao to be martyred to protect the security of Daqin Jiangshan. " Qin Shihuang felt very reasonable, so he changed his mind and immediately ordered Reese to recruit skilled craftsmen from all over the country and set fire to the honor guard on a large scale. Moreover, he asked that the fired pottery horse should be as big as a real horse.

After the death of Qin Shihuang, Qin Ershi Hu Hai succeeded to the throne. He was afraid that craftsmen would reveal the secrets in the tomb, so he secretly transported the spiritual pivot of Qin Shihuang into the tomb, and then ordered all the people involved in the construction of the tomb to go to the tomb to watch the play and receive a reward.

Poor craftsmen, civilian workers and torturers who shed blood and sweat to build the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor were cheated by Qin Ershi. As soon as they entered the mausoleum, they were sealed alive in the tomb and became martyrs.

2. Legend of Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses

It is said that after the Qin Dynasty unified the six countries, Qin Shihuang began to build his own mausoleum, with thousands of people. Of course, almost all of them were men, and Qin Shihuang did not allow women to enter his mausoleum.

The project of the mausoleum is huge and takes a long time. These men work day and night in the mausoleum, and there are not a few who have not returned for many years. Those hard-working workers who are married and have children miss their families day and night. One of them, surnamed Jiang, did the same.

Jiang has been in the mausoleum for three years. Jiang's wife, Jiang, missed her husband and took the money to find him. After several twists and turns, Jiang finally found the location of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum. She begged the soldiers to let her meet her husband, but the soldiers stopped her. How do women get into the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang?

His style waited outside until the travel expenses were spent and his husband had not come out. He was hungry and cold, tried everything, but never saw his husband, and finally starved to death outside the mausoleum.

The soldiers outside were moved by Jiang's loyalty, buried it outside the tomb, erected a tombstone with wood, and passed her story from mouth to mouth, and finally reached the ears of hardworking Jiang. After learning that his wife was starving outside, Jiang burst into tears, but it didn't help. The mausoleum project is not over yet. Even though he is very sad, Jiang has to continue his work.

Finally, after all the tombs were built, Jiang drudgery went to pay homage to his wife's grave with full expectation, but unexpectedly, Qin Shihuang's soldiers appeared in front of them with weapons. In order to protect the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang from anyone, these workers will die here.

Looking at the bright weapons of the soldiers, the workers suddenly became desperate, and Jiang drudgery was on the verge of despair. Just as the soldiers raised their weapons, Jiang drudgery knelt in front of the soldiers and begged them if he could turn himself into a living terracotta warrior. He didn't want to die in the mausoleum like this. He wants to become a ghost soldier and always guard his wife's grave.

The soldiers finally agreed to his suggestion and sealed him in the terracotta warriors and horses. He stood at the angle of his wife Chiang Kai-shek's solitary grave. He hoped that he could always protect her.

Terracotta warriors and horses are a category of ancient tomb sculptures. In ancient times, human sacrifice was practiced, and slaves were accessories of slave owners before their death. When they die, the slaves will be buried with the slave owners as sacrifices. Terracotta warriors and horses were made into sacrifices in the shape of troops (chariots, horses and soldiers).

The burial pits of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang sit west to east, and the three pits are arranged in a zigzag pattern. The earliest discovery was the Terracotta Warriors Pit No.1, which was rectangular. There are more than 8000 terracotta warriors and horses in the pit, and there are inclined doorways on all sides. There is a Terracotta Warriors pit around the No.1 Terracotta Warriors pit, which is called Pit No.2 and Pit No.3..

Terracotta Warriors pit is an underground tunnel-type civil structure building, that is, a pit about 5 meters deep is dug from the ground, and a parallel earth partition wall is built in the middle of the pit. Wooden columns are arranged on both sides of the wall, and cross bars are placed on the columns. The crossbar and the earth partition wall are densely covered with shed wood, covered with a layer of reed mat, and then covered with loess, forming the pit top, which is about 2 meters higher than the surface at that time.

The bottom of the pit is paved with blue bricks. The space height from the top to the bottom of the pit is 3.2 meters. After the terracotta warriors and terracotta warriors and horses into the pit, the surrounding doorways were blocked with stumps and filled with rammed earth to form a closed underground building.

Terracotta Warriors and Horses vividly shaped various characters with certain personalities. Its style is vigorous, refined and full of touching artistic charm, which is a symbol of the maturity of China ancient plastic arts.

It not only inherited the tradition of pottery and plastic sculpture since the Warring States period, but also laid the foundation for the prosperity of plastic arts in the Tang Dynasty, and played a connecting role. It is known as "the eighth wonder of the world" and "the treasure of ancient human spiritual civilization".

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