兵马俑的英文简介

TheTerracottaArmy(Chinese:兵马俑;Pinyin:BīngMǎYǒng;literally"militaryservants")orTerra-cottaWarriorsandHorsesisacollectionof8,099life-sizeterracottafiguresofwarriorsandhorseslocatedintheMausoleumoftheFirstQinEmperor(秦始皇陵;QínShǐHuángLíng).Thefigureswerediscoveredin1974nearXi'an,Shaanxiprovince,TheterracottafigureswereburiedwiththefirstEmperorofQin(QinShiHuang)in210-209BC.Consequently,theyarealsosometimesreferredtoas"Qin'sArmy."TheTerracottaArmyofChinawasdiscoveredinMarch1974bylocalfarmersdrillingawelltotheeastofMountLi.MountLiisthenameoftheman-madenecropolisandtomboftheFirstEmperorofQin;QinShiHuang.Constructionofthismausoleumbeganin246B.C.andisbelievedtohavetaken700,000workersandcraftsmen36yearstocomplete.QinShiHuangwasinterredinsidethetombcomplexuponhisdeathin210B.C.AccordingtotheGrandHistorianSimaQian,TheFirstEmperorwasburiedalongsidegreatamountsoftreasureandobjectsofcraftsmanship,aswellasascalereplicaoftheuniversecompletewithgemmedceilingsrepresentingthecosmos,andflowingmercury.representingthegreatearthlybodiesofwater.RecentscientificworkatthesitehasshownhighlevelsofmercuryinthesoilofMountLi,tentativelyindicatinganaccuratedescriptionofthesite’scontentsbySimaQian.ThetombofQinShiHuangisnearanearthenpyramid76meterstallandnearly350meterssquare.Thetombpresentlyremainsunopened.Thereareplanstoseal-offtheareaaroundthetombwithaspecialtent-typestructuretopreventcorrosionfromexposuretooutsideair.However,thereisatpresentonlyonecompanyintheworldthatmakesthesetents,andtheirlargestmodelwillnotcoverthesiteasneeded.QinShiHuang’snecropoliscomplexwasconstructedtoserveasanimperialcompoundorpalace.Itiscomprisedofseveraloffices,hallsandotherstructuresandissurroundedbyawallwithgatewayentrances.Theremainsofthecraftsmenworkinginthetombmayalsobefoundwithinitsconfines,asitisbelievedtheyweresealedinsidealivetokeepthemfromdivulginganysecretsaboutitsrichesorentrance.Itwasonlyfitting,therefore,tohavethiscompoundprotectedbythemassiveterracottaarmyinterrednearby.这个比较详细

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