Dear MEL
Topic Readers,
The army that
conquered the world
It could,
most likely would, have been a disaster if it had been discovered a few years
earlier.
Qin Xi Huang’s
tomb and his terracotta army were accidentally found by farmers near Xian in
1974, when there were no more Red Guards, who had destroyed tombs and statues of
historic importance including the Ming emperor Wanli like today’s Taliban or
ISIS, marching across the country looking for and destroying anything
counter-revolutionary.
The first emperor
of China seemed to have a persistent passion for eternal life and the next
life. He spent fortune in search of remedy for immortality, which of course turned
out to be unsuccessful. Instead, the terracotta warriors created to guard his
tomb seem to have attained eternal life. As many as 8,000 of them are well
preserved by the present dynasty and shown to commoners from the world. But his
tomb is still untouched to avoid interrupting his sleep even after over two millenniums.
Enjoy reading
and thinking if the resting emperor is happy with his eternal sleep.
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