The National Palace Museum, in Taipei city, is hosting a grand exhibition that features terracotta warriors from the mausoleum of Qin Shi-huang.
Qin Shi-huang is the f
irst emperor in China’s history and the founder of the Qin Dynasty that dated 2-thousand 200 years ago.
Titled “Terracotta: the Rise and Legacy of Qin Culture”, the exhibition features 189 precious artifacts on loan from 19 museums in China.
Dr. Cai Qing-liang, curator of the show, says the pieces spanned a 700-year period from 900 B.C., when the mighty Qin Dynasty was merely a tribe in the west, till around 200 B.C., when the dynasty was overthrown.
Cai says the show is considered the most complete exhibition of Qin relics ever assembled.
He adds that the highlights of the exhibition include ten Terrocotta warriors, two reconstructed chariots, and a large amount of gold trinkets dug out from a grave that dated some 2-thousand 4 hundred years ago at sites that are located close to Qin.
The show is also unique in reviewing the influence of Qin on the successive Han and the following dynasties.
The exhibition is open from 9 AM to 5 PM every day at the National Palace Museum in Taipei city till August 31. It will then relocated to National Science and Technology Museum in Gaoxiong city from September 15th to December 18th.
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