Terracotta Soldiers Come to Life in US
Posted in Asian culture, History on 12/02/2009 01:44 pm by Dragon
Way cool! This dragon recently flew over to see the new exhibit “Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor” at the National Geographic Museum in Washington, DC. How rad is it to come face to face with Emperor Qin Shihuang’s life-sized eternal army. (I last saw these when my pal the emperor was just getting started on this massive project.)
I met the dear emperor in my younger days (around 250 B.C.), as he was starting to plan for his afterlife.
You see death was perceived as a prolongation of life, and an emperor’s mausoleum was his afterlife palace, mirroring the magnificence of his palatial life on earth. As an old Chinese saying instructs, “treat death as life.”