Xuzhou
One of China's renowned historical and cultural
city, Xuzhou is located in northern Jiangsu Province. Traces of the
culture of the Qin and Han dynasties can be found everywhere there,
especially the rocks covered with portraits of the Han Dynasty, the
terracotta warriors and horses of the Western Han Dynasty, a jade suit
sewn with silver thread, and the ruins of an underground city. Xuzhou
features such tourist attractions as the terracotta warriors and horses
of the Western Han Dynasty, Yunlong Mountain, museums, Yunlong Lake,
tombs of the Han Dynasty in Dongshan Mountain, and the Quanshan Mountain
Forest Nature Reserve.
The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Western Han
Unearthed from seven pits in Shizi Mountain of Xuzhou in 1 984, the
clay figures of warriors and horses are another Important archaeological
find after those of the Han Dynasty brought to light in Yangjiawan of
Xianyang and those found in the mausoleum of the first emperor of the
Qin Dynasty in Lintong of Van. Analyses reveal that they were buried
underground as funeral objects with a dead king of State Chu.
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