Let's take a look at the terracotta warriors and horses that have been discovered.
The unearthed terracotta warriors and horses are about the size of real people, but their faces are different. No wonder some people think there should be real people in it.
Earlier, Xiao Ka mentioned in the article "The Colors of Terracotta Warriors and Horses when they were First Unearthed" that there were wooden beams at the top of the pit. Later, the wooden beams collapsed and the soil fell, smashing many original terracotta warriors and horses. I want to see if there are any bodies in the terracotta warriors and horses, and the answer isno. Experts also verified their firing methods based on the unearthed terracotta warriors and horses. Terracotta warriors and horses were burned in sections, and finally put together, and their faces were carved in bas-reliefs, which was completely acceptable.
Where the Terracotta Warriors were found, there were fragments everywhere. It can be seen that the broken terracotta warriors and horses are mostly mud, and no bones are seen.
However, since the Terracotta Warriors have not been excavated, Cam is not sure that there must be no real Terracotta Warriors. Why do you say that? Like the porcelain bowl burning leaves introduced by Xiao Ka, the wisdom of the ancients in China is often beyond the imagination of modern people. Here's a little coffee to introduce you to the flesh clay sculpture in the history of China.
The so-called flesh clay sculpture means that after the death of some highly practiced Buddhists (and a few Taoists) in ancient times, the remains were slightly treated, and the monks put on robes, covered them with straw, linen and other things for protection, and then painted with fine mud to make statues, and the surfaces were painted or gilded. The Buddha statue made in this way is really a real human body. Let's see what flesh clay sculptures have been found now.
1. Clay sculpture by Master Liu Quan, Song Dynasty, about 1000 years ago.
The master Buddha statue is hidden in an ancestral temple in Sanming, Fujian. It was stolen more than 20 years ago and recently appeared in a museum in Hungary. It was discovered and caused a sensation because the museum accidentally found a real skeleton in it when doing CT for studying Buddha statues. The researchers found that the real body of the master in the Buddha statue was the same as that of the Egyptian mummy, and its perishable internal organs were removed, which also showed that the sitting body did not need any treatment.
You can compare, have you found that the soil coated on the surface is very thin, indicating that the clay sculpture technology is still very high.
CT detection
Second, the Taoist statue of Matoushan in Yan 'an, Shaanxi Province was discovered in 2004, about 300 years ago in the early Qing Dynasty.
The discovery of this physical statue was also an accident. In 2004, someone tried to steal this Buddha statue, accidentally hitting and destroying its chest. As the soil fell, the sternum inside was exposed, scaring the thief to flee. Later, cultural relics protection workers analyzed the statue. The statue is made by sitting on the real body, fixing it with straw outside, stirring it with local clay, sand and wool, and coating the body surface with a thickness of 2-3 cm. X-ray shows that the skeleton of the statue is complete and the head is fixed with iron wire. Although it looks gray now, the surface of clay sculpture used to be painted, and the eyes should be inlaid with jewels, but now it is gone. You can also see the bones inside.
3. There is a 16 Baogu Buddha statue in Mianshan, Jiexiu, Shanxi Province, which was discovered in Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, 1996.
1996, people found an ancient temple in Mianshan, which contained more than a dozen Buddha statues. Some people thought that there would be gold and silver treasures in the middle of the Buddha statue, but they rudely cut open a Buddha statue and found the bones inside. Later, the staff found more than a dozen real bodies here, plus several in the surrounding temples, *** 16. There are bone-wrapped Buddha statues in Jiuhua Mountain in China, Nanhua Temple in Guangdong, Giant Buddha Temple in Hong Kong and Xizhi Buddha Temple in Taiwan Province, but the number of Mianshan Mountain is remarkable.