The Terracotta Warriors

It was off to Asian Civilisation Museum (ACM) to visit the Terracotta Warriors! I love visiting such special exhibitions in museums <3 Geeky me likes to be enriched with historical facts and quirky ideas, you see (: 

Anyhow, I have been wanting to visit the Terracotta Warriors for a long long time. Think once, I even tried to convince my parents to bring me to Xi'an to see them! Now that they've flown all the way to Singapore, there's no reason why I would miss this opportunity for the world! (:

The Terracotta Warriors were found buried together with Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. These figures depicted the army which would follow Qin Shi Huang in his afterlife. The army was discovered in 1974, in the Litong District, Xi'an, Shanxi Province. The construction of this mausoleum started in 246BC and involved almost 70,000 workers (talking about cheap labour huh!). Currently, there is an estimate of 3 pits of armies, with over 8000 soldiers,130 chariots, 520 horses (many of which are still buried underground).

The ACM had brought over a few figures and some replicas (as the original figures are too fragile to be moved). And it was really interesting to find out so much more about the Terracotta Army. The ACM had also very nicely designed an iPhone app for visitors to experience the sights and sounds of the wonderful Terracotta Army (: Find out more here!

(psst! its free entry for Singaporean and PR students ya!just rmb your ezlink/matric card)

Here are some pictures of today's visit to ACM!

this is our ticket to enter the exhibition!

camgeek, seriously.

contemporary version of the army! HOW CUTE PLS!

love the lighting of this photo <3

some pottery that were buried alongside the warriors

this is a replica of the original chariot, which is too frail to leave China ):

the horses are so mega cute though (:

warrior gear!

here's the real deal! this is a Terracotta General (:

some other miniatures which were buried in another tomb (yes, its not QinShiHuang's tomb)

extracts of walls leading into the tombs. these stones depict a romanticized version of a commoner's life.

creepy figurines. think they just depict commoners /:

figurine of a maiden buried in the tomb as well.

Well, maybe you should go down to the ACM to visit the Terracotta Army (: