Bronze Chariot and Horse of Qinling

Also known as Xi'an Ming City Wall, it is the most complete ancient city wall in China, and the second largest in the country in length. It is listed as the four best ancient city walls in China, with Pingyao City Wall, Jingzhou City Wall, Xingcheng City Wall, etc. The city wall is surrounded by moats, and the famous Xi'an Bell and Drum Tower is located in the center of the city wall. Visitors can choose to walk in the courtyard or cycle around the city gate. The road on the city gate is not flat. You should pay attention to safety when riding.

Qinling copper chariots and horses in June 1978 in the Qin Shi emperor's mausoleum of about 20 meters west of the exploration and unearthed, a total of two, realistic reproduction of the Qin Shihuang royal carriage full picture, reflecting the Qin Dynasty craftsmen using superb casting technology, the ancient Chinese chariot culture research has a landmark meaning It is called the “Bronze Crown”.

Qinling copper car and horse since the unearthed has attracted world attention, known as the "bronze crown". Qinling bronze car and horse with its huge bronze shape created the ancient metallurgical casting history of miracles, it not only reproduced the style of Qin Shi emperor driving, but also showed the ancient car and horse driving relationship and the ancient people cleverly craft skills, everyone who went to visit was deeply shocked by it.

Since the excavation had been seriously damaged and the original site was not suitable for preservation, archaeologists restored the bronze chariots and horses used as the funeral of Qin Shihuang and opened a new museum for preservation and exhibition. There are two bronze carriages on display in the exhibition hall. They were made by craftsmen of the Qin State according to the scale of the carriages used by the First Emperor of Qin Dynasty. They are bronze products. One is for road driving and the other is for Qin Shihuang. Each part of the bronze horse and chariot is also displayed in the museum. Among them, the bronze umbrella is the most exquisite. The instructors in the museum show us the various uses of the bronze umbrella with copies.

The copper car and horse have visited many times. It used to be in the exhibition hall of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. This time, I heard a tour guide tell the group tourists that the copper car and horse have been transferred to the Lushan Mausoleum, but there is no explanation in the scenic area. For this reason, we also specially verified the front desk staff. The copper car and horse are indeed no longer in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum. If you want to see it, you can take a commuter bus to the Lushan Mausoleum outside the gate of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Scenic Area. This means that tourists who have not been here before, no one reminded them that they can only miss the copper car and horse. When I arrived at the Lushan Mausoleum, I was told that the gate was 5 kilometers away from the scenic spot and needed to do a battery car. There was no instruction in the scenic spot. After asking for a long time, I knew that the penultimate stop was a copper car and horse. I took the car through two accompanying pit stations and came to the specially built copper car and horse exhibition hall. I walked through a long narrow aisle and a layer of stairs. Finally came to the main exhibition hall, people are not too much, but the space is not large, the strange thing is that the original two copper cars and horses, only one is displayed, the other is a replica, memory in the past in the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Museum exhibition hall saw two cars and horses, not sure if they remembered wrong. I don't understand, the impression that the copper car and horse are not unearthed from the Lushan Mausoleum, and have been exhibited with the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in the past few decades, why to move away, people are puzzled, and many unwitting tourists will miss the copper car and horse. Personally, I have always believed that the cultural relics of copper cars and horses are not inferior to the terracotta warriors and horses, because it has a close relationship with the departure of Qin Shihuang. Qin Shihuang died in the car on the road. Li Si once put a box of abalone in the car, and covered up the fact that Qin Shihuang died. The same cover-up may also be the death of Qin Shihuang, because in Bolangsha, Qin Shihuang once experienced Zhang Liang's assassination, the official statement is that the assassin hit the deputy car, Qin Shihuang therefore escaped, but the emperor died soon after, people suspected that the hit may not be the deputy car, Zhang Liang's assassination may have caused the death of the first emperor, even if he was not killed at the time, he may have been severely damaged. These back stories make copper cars and horses and the era of the storm, so there is a special historical value, the existence of the sub-car also makes people feel that the copper cars and horses should theoretically have two. We visit the copper car and horse is not to see the excitement, not only to appreciate how beautiful its structure, how luxurious the decoration, but to feel the history, to think about Zhang Liang such a weak scholar why he risked death to assassinate, on the road to the end of the world.