During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, a hundred schools of thought contended, and ideology and culture showed a positive development trend. Qin Shihuang pursued the art of immortality, and naturally believed in the thoughts of metaphysics, Yin and Yang studies and other schools. So when he built the first imperial tomb, he insisted that life is death, and death is another kind of life. Therefore, the first mausoleum he built was particularly magnificent, and it has not been completed for 37 years. In the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, the underground palace built by Qin Shihuang is the same as the buildings on the ground. From the structural point of view, it is the appearance of Xianyang Miyagi, with many pavilions. Qin Shihuang fought all his life, destroyed six countries and unified the world. He hopes that after his death, he can also lead thousands of troops. So Qin Shihuang ordered the production of so many terracotta warriors and horses.
Lv Buwei may be the person in charge of the early construction of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum. Later, Lv Buwei committed a crime. Qin Shihuang originally just wanted to demote him, but he finally killed Lv Buwei. After Lv Buwei's death, the person who took over the work of the first imperial tomb should be the current Prime Minister Reese. The craftsmen of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum were among the best in the Qin Dynasty.
During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, it was customary to use the living to be martyred. He went to Qin Shihuang and requisitioned most of the Qin people. Some people were taken to repair the Great Wall, some went to repair the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, some were engaged in farming, and some were soldiers of the army. The rest are old, weak, sick and disabled, unable to work. So he probably doesn't use human sacrifices very much.
Let's take a look at how the famous Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang were designed and made. First of all, the head of the Terracotta Warriors is made separately, while the trunk of the Terracotta Warriors is formed at one time, so the Terracotta Warriors are hollow. Most terracotta warriors and horses look much taller than real people, which is related to visual impairment. When the surrounding space is relatively large, the sculpture should be slightly enlarged to look as big as a real person.
In order to build terracotta warriors and horses, we must first shape them. At present, the modeling program generally uses wooden boards, steel wires and steel bars to build a skeleton. , and then use the special clay for sculpture to knead a rough shape, then deeply shape it, then use the external mold to make it, respectively reverse the mold, and finally assemble it into a whole. But the methods used in the Qin Dynasty were different from those used now. The method they used to make the figurines of the Qin Dynasty is called dish sculpture, which is a few steps less than the modern technical procedure, but more complicated. They often use mud strips to make a large scale from bottom to top, and then carry out the next in-depth shaping.
After shaping the terracotta warriors, we must try to dry the mud of the terracotta warriors. Instead of basking in the sun, they dried it in the shade. Because this terracotta warriors and horses will explode once exposed to the sun. Then there is the process of firing terracotta warriors and horses. I don't know how this process is different from what it is now. Probably need to master the temperature and steps. After all these three steps were completed, we began to draw. This painting is not scribbling on the Terracotta Warriors, nor drawing some beautiful patterns on the Terracotta Warriors, but coloring the Terracotta Warriors. In this way, these terracotta warriors and horses look like real people at first sight. It is said that the newly unearthed terracotta warriors and horses are colored, and their clothes and skin are the same as those of normal people. However, when they come into contact with the air and other reasons are not in place, the color of the terracotta warriors and horses falls off. Almost all the terracotta warriors and horses we see now are colorless. These colorful terracotta warriors seem to have lost their vitality, but they are still full of vitality.
Finally, when you do this, you just need to put the head of the Terracotta Warriors on him, and a vivid Terracotta Warriors will be released.
After visiting the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, some people found that the faces of these terracotta warriors and horses were almost identical, which surprised many people. It is said that at that time, Qin Shihuang made these terracotta warriors and horses according to the real person of each soldier. So these terracotta warriors and horses we see now, there was such a person before, they grew up like this, just like taking pictures, and their images were recorded.