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  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. Jul 2, 2024 · Terra-cotta army, life-size terra-cotta figures found in the tomb of the first Qin emperor, Qin Shi Huang (also called Shihuangdi), near Xi’an, Shaanxi province, China. The buried army faces east, poised for battle, about three-quarters of a mile from the outer wall of the tomb proper, guarding it.

  5. 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...

  6. Terracotta warriors from the mausoleum of the first Qin emperor of China Qin Shihuang, c. 221-206 B.C.E., Qin Dynasty, painted terracotta, Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum, Shaanxi, China. The cavalry horses are approximately life-size.

  7. 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.