[Leica] Xi'an

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Douglas, Sonny, Nathan, Jay
Thanks for looking. They started planning for his death when he ascended
the throne (of his state, not the unified China) at the age of 13, and went
on for 36 years. No wonder they amassed all this stuff to bury with him.
Its quite amazing, the features, the dress, etc of each soldier is
different, so it is really set to mimic a real army - overall uniformity
with subtle differences.
Cheers
Jayanand

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> Spectacular—and what a waste to create all this just for a dead guy!
> Unsurprisingly, I really like the people shots at the end.
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> On 13 Nov 2014, at 14:35, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The next stop was Xi'an, the home of the Terracotta Army. The Army was
> > buried to protect the founder of the first dynasty in China. Emperor Qin
> > (of the Qin Dynasty), near his burial mound, from enemies he might
> > encounter in his afterlife around 210 BC. The figures are 10-15% larger
> > than life size, as befits a ghost's army, and the detail on their bodies
> is
> > quite amazing. In due course, everybody forgot about it, until a farmer,
> > digging a well under his lands in 1974, stumbled upon it. The walls had
> > fallen on the army, grave robbers had stolen the weaponry, and flooding
> had
> > ruined the figures as well, leading to a painstaking and gargantuan
> > reconstruction task. There is enough still hidden here to keep
> > archeologists busy for a century more, I think - there are supposed to be
> > 60 pits around, full of the emperors help for the hereafter, and only 4-5
> > have been dug up, fully or partially. The Emperor's necropolis has not
> been
> > opened as yet for fear of what oxidation would do to the things inside.
> The
> > Terracotta Army is very well documented, so here are a few shots from the
> > three pits open to the public, giving an idea of what is there:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1854.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1954.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1884.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1966.jpg.html
> >
> > The museum and grounds are wonderfully laid out and maintained for both
> > maximum safety for the contents, as well as ease of viewing for the
> hordes
> > who pass by every year:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-1992.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2023.jpg.html
> >
> > Xi'an, surprisingly has a big Muslim population, and is home to The Great
> > Mosque and its lovely green grounds. Luckily, on the day we went, there
> was
> > a funeral service going on someone important in the community, so there
> > were quite a few people around.:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2580.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2062.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2596.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2050.jpg.html
> >
> > Surrounding the mosque was an enchanting covered market, selling, as most
> > such markets do, utterly flimsy, cheap and useless stuff:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2617.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2622.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2635.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2565.jpg.html
> >
> > Everybody was zipping around the bazaar in electric vehicles, either
> bikes
> > or tuk-tuks:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2657.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2077.jpg.html
> >
> > Finally, people shots to end the first day in Xian:
> >
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2063.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2067.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2028.jpg.html
> >
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/jayanand/China/China-20141017-2098.jpg.html
> >
> > Please see LARGE
> >
> > Comments and criticism, as ever, welcome.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Jayanand
> >
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