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A Terra-Cotta Warrior. A Terra-Cotta Warrior, also known as Fight and Love with a Terracotta Warrior, is a 1989 Hong Kong film based on the novel by Lilian Lee, directed by Ching Siu-tung and produced by Tsui Hark, starring Zhang Yimou and Gong Li. The film is about a forbidden love between a court lady and a soldier of the Qin Dynasty.
The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting him in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late 200s BCE, [1] were discovered in 1974 by local ...
Apr 19, 2024 · Near the unexcavated tomb of Qin Shi Huang —who proclaimed himself first emperor of China in 221 B.C.E.—lay an extraordinary underground treasure: an entire army of life-size terra-cotta ...
5 days ago · Terra-cotta soldiers and horses in the Qin tomb, near Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China. The tomb containing the terra-cotta army was found in March 1974, when farmers drilling a well discovered a subterranean chamber. There archaeologists later found the army of some 8,000 life-size terra-cotta soldiers (assembled from separately fired sections ...
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Apr 12, 1990 · A Terra-Cotta Warrior: Directed by Siu-Tung Ching. With Yimou Zhang, Gong Li, Tian-Ming Wu, Rongguang Yu. China 2.200 years ago. It's the time of the Qin dynasty. The emperor seeks immortality by busily letting his alchemists search for a formula and building the famous terracotta army from the bodies of outlaws and the condemned.
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The Terra-Cotta Warriors were only discovered in 1974. On March 29, 1974, the first in an extensive collection of terra-cotta warriors was discovered in Xian, China. Local farmers came across pieces of a clay figure, and these shards led to the discovery of an ancient tomb, vast in its size and number of artifacts.
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Mar 28, 2024 · Yuan, dubbed the "father of terracotta warriors" by Chinese media, described in detail the colours of the warriors' costumes in a paper published in 2001. He said that one general had been found ...
