Monday, June 02, 2008
8:51 AM
中国悠久的历史与古老的文化，真的让人惊叹不已. 昨天去看了兵马俑，它的神奇简直叫我们无法想象!
Guess who I saw there?
Guess who I saw there?
It's MM lee kuan yew! He actually visited this place when he was still the prime minister then.
He even 提了一行字！this was written by him…If u dun hav any idea of 兵马俑 & y am I making such a big hoo ha out of it, let me bring u through a little history of the 秦 dynasty. When 秦始皇 died, he wanna bring along with him everything in the world, in other words, he wan to rebuild his whole empire in the netherworld. Thus, he commenced his ppl to start making replicates of everything to be buried tght wif him when he died. altght, 600 pits were dug & his soldiers (兵马俑) reside in 4 of them.
tricia & me @ the 1st pit~~This is the 1st pit discovered & it’s oso the biggest among the 4. Each 兵马俑 is delicately crafted from palm prints to hair strands. Even the floors are pathed wif gapless tiles. Wif e technology durin dat era, it’s basically impossible to accomplish. All of them has unique faces and not one is similar to the other. How did the 木匠 actually come up wif so many diff faces? We believed dat they used each other’s face as models & modified from there. When the兵马俑 are discovered, most of them are actually damaged & these 兵马俑 dat we see hav alr been 修补 based on the analysis & matching of the fallen pieces. I’m sure many of us might be wondering y are some of them left w/o any heads. There’s a perfectly logical reason behind it. This is bcos their faces are alr damaged beyond repair & our craftsmen r preserving the original statue by not inventing an imaginary one.
In order to protect the兵马俑, visitors are oni allowed in the gallery & not underground. Oni countries representatives like the presidents or prime ministers hav special privileges to access the underground. One interesting fact is japen’s prime minister actually visited this place, however he did not receive the special access even thou he has the status as he did not earn the respect (ps. japan still refused to apologise to china).
this is the 2nd pit~~
All e 兵马俑 are actually coloured even thou wat we saw are oni the colourless clay. This is bcos when e 兵马俑 are exposed to air & sunlight, the colours on them will fade immediately. Thus we can see dat the 2nd pit thou dug, the兵马俑 are still not exposed yet. Archeologists are alr working wif experts in germany (it’s leading the world in their research work on colours) to ensure that they’ll be able to preserve the colours on the 兵马俑 b4 they’ll proceed to exhibit more statues. Estimated time frame is 5 to 8 yrs.
In 3rd pit resides all the 将军 & 元帅. As compared to the 1st pit where all the frontline soldiers are standing in str lines in rows ready for battle, the将军 stand facing each other.
