Museum of underwater terracotta warriors and horses

Museum of underwater terracotta warriors and horses

The underwater Museum of terracotta warriors and horses is located in the Han culture scenic area, No.1, terracotta warriors and horses Road, Yunlong District, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province. It is the first underwater Museum of terracotta warriors and horses (waterfront) in China.

The museum is located in the lion pond, and its appearance is composed of two gray buildings with a bucket shaped structure. The museum consists of two parts: the west hall displays the original appearance of the pit, the East Hall introduces the ancient Chinese cavalry corps, and displays the scene of the Han Dynasty cavalry terracotta army.

architectural composition

The Museum of underwater terracotta warriors and horses is a part of the Han culture scenic spot in Xuzhou. It is also known as the "three wonders of the Han Dynasty" (three wonders: terracotta warriors and horses, Han murals and Han Mausoleum), together with the Museum of Xuzhou Han terracotta warriors and horses, the gallery of Han paintings and the tomb of Chu king in Shizishan, the first of the ten newly discovered archaeological sites in China in 1995.

The scheme of the museum is designed by Qi Bin of architectural design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University, and the construction drawings are designed by Xuzhou second architectural design institute, with project leader Yuan Ye and structural leader Ma Li. Shanghai Landscape Engineering Co., Ltd. is responsible for the construction. The trestle road of the underwater terracotta warriors museum is a reinforced concrete structure. Stone and wood are used to pave the Bank of lion pool on both sides of the entrance and exit. The appearance of the whole building is simple, pure and elegant.

The underwater Museum of terracotta warriors and horses is located in the lion pond of Xuzhou Han culture scenic spot. It was built on the original site of the once submerged pit of terracotta warriors and horses. It displays the restored pit and the carefully restored terracotta warriors and horses. The museum consists of two parts: the west hall displays the original appearance of the pit, the East Hall introduces the ancient Chinese cavalry corps, and displays the scene of the Han Dynasty cavalry terracotta army.

Xuzhou underwater terracotta warriors and Horses Museum won the Architectural Creation Award of China Architectural Society in 2010.

Collection

Terra cotta pit

There are three pits of terracotta warriors and horses in east-west direction, with a distance of 5 meters and a length of 28 meters. The pit has a width of 2.2 meters, a bottom width of 1.1-1.4 meters and a depth of 0.4-1.1 meters; a north-south guard pit is about 5.5 meters east of the three infantry pits, with a length of 26 meters, a width of 1 meter and a depth of 0.15-0.40 meters; two cavalry pits and chariot pits are 125 meters northwest of the three East-West pits, one of which was damaged in 1981, and the other is 12.5 meters east-west, 3.5 meters wide and 0.4-0.6 meters deep. The pit is more than 24 meters away from the site.

Two pits of terracotta soldiers and guards have been excavated. The eastern end of two pits of terracotta soldiers has been damaged to varying degrees. There are 2393 pottery figurines, including 1016 in Pit 1 and 1377 in Pit 2.

The terracotta figures are all made of clay. They are blue gray. There are four horses, one official figure, and the rest are armor figures, kneeling figures, armor figures, braided figures, hair bun figures, bow and crossbow figures and armed figures. The body of the figurine is painted with powder and some parts are painted with red.

From the shape, texture, clothing and other characteristics of the analysis, for the first century BC works, about the time of the West Han Dynasty, Wu.

Terracotta warriors and horses of the Han Dynasty

The terracotta warriors and horses of the Han Dynasty were originally buried with Liu Wu, the third generation king of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty, more than 2150 years ago.

In terms of production technology, the terracotta warriors and horses are made from molds and then processed twice. They are about the same size. However, if you carefully observe them, you will find that they have different expressions. Among them, one is holding his head high, his mouth open, and his body up, as if he were a rough character and could not help crying. One of the two people around him leans his head and the other turns his face, as if he were comforting and persuading the crying person; Some of them are low, frowning, mouth down, showing introverted, silent melancholy, which is consistent with the overall solemn and solemn military theme.

On the basis of inheriting the style of Qin Dynasty terracotta warriors and horses, Han Dynasty terracotta warriors and horses developed from realism to freehand brushwork. It did not pay attention to the accuracy of the proportion of characters' lines, but focused on the characters' inner world and spiritual outlook.

Development history

In 1985, archaeologists found six burial pits with terra cotta warriors and horses to the west of the Chu King Mausoleum in Shizishan, which were divided into two groups: the South and the north. The two terracotta pits on the north side have been submerged since they were excavated in 1987.

In order to show the whole picture of the terracotta warriors and horses pits in Xuzhou to the world, Xuzhou Municipal People's government decided to build underwater terracotta warriors and horses exhibition halls on the original sites of the two terracotta warriors and horses pits in 2005.

Address: No.1 terracotta warriors Road, Yunlong District, Xuzhou

Longitude: 117.219478

Latitude: 34.245215