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China is medium in size, mountainous, and also has some deserts. They have a highly literate society, they greatly valued poetry, calligraphy, and painting—also known as the three perfections. Imperial China produced many technological advances including: paper and porcelain. Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism were the main religions of the time of imperial China. Qin Shihuang (259-210 BCE) (of the Qin Dynasty) had a tomb built for himself. It was a huge, underground tomb, guarded by life sized warriors made of terra cotta. These terra cotta men included: warriors, infantry men, horses, chariots, and all their attendant armor and weaponry. These some 7,000 men were originally painted. The army found in the 1st emperor’s burial complex is a remarkable discovery, of the things found there were: gardens, stables, bronze ritual vessels, jade jewelry, and a wealth of gold and silver ornaments. Qin Shihuang was an ancient astronomer.
I think that these sculptures of Buddha were so wonderful. I love that they were inside the mountain and that the monks used to like in caves around the sculptures. It's so nice to see how much they put into their religion you could tell how hard they worked on them. As for the tearing down of these statues, I think that it's incredibly sad that they would destroy such wonderful pieces of art, and not only that but how hard they worked to destroy it. I think that there should be something in place to protect artifacts and ancient art, but because things like this are so large and so public it's hard to figure out exactly what to do. And because the scale of the destruction was so large, it probably would've ended up getting through anything that had been put in place.
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