Terracotta Army

THERE IS THE MOST INTERESTING EXHIBIT AT BOWERS MUSEUM OF CULTURAL ART IN SANTA ANA!!! The Terracotta Army meaning "soldier and horse funerary statues" is an eclectic group of statues ranging from warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, strongmen, and musicians created in 210 BCE. These statues that were made to serve and protect the first Chinese emperor Shi Huang Di of the Quinn empire in his after-life were only recently discovered in 1974 by a group of local farmers who were looking for a water hole around Mt.Li in China (interesting enough the material used for the sculptures was gathered from the same area).

According to some historians it is believed over 700,000 government laborers and craftsman were used to create the sculptures, neo-acropolis, and burial (which has been excavated but unopened). The life-size sculptures which vary in size, hairstyle, and armor according to rank were put together with an incredibly advanced "production line" system that assembled the separate pieces including hands, torso, face, and feet into one mold. The sculpture are within four different pits that were constructed with solid dirt and concrete!

The best thing about this Terracotta army, we Chaffey students don't have to go to China to view the sculptures because the Santa Ana Bowers museum will be having them on display