Are you interested in the painted Terracotta Warriors, then a visit to the Terracotta Army Museum will take you to see a dazzling array of colorfully painted Terracotta Warrior exhibitions.

Overview of the Painted Terracotta Warriors

Originally painted with color, but later as buried or fire and other reasons, the color is exhausted, now people can only see the gray pottery figurine. In September this year, the museum will launch the painted Terracotta Army exhibition; people will see the polychrome terracotta from 2000 years ago. It is understood, the Qin Terracotta Army, originally colorful, but in the years of vicissitudes the color faded. After decades of archaeological excavation and protection, there are a lot of polychrome terracotta Warriors preserved, such as the former displays with green face figurines, figurines and soldiers with the red and white or pink face completely different. The Terracotta Army, in addition to hair, beard and pupil, facial color is full of green pigment. This year is the 35 anniversary of Terracotta Army and Qin Shihuang Museum, the museum will launch the color Terracotta Army exhibition from September to March next year, the exhibition will be set as the public display of the Qin Terracotta Army magnificent paint colors, revealing the Qin people of color aesthetic and cultural connotation, take you into the colorful world of the Terracotta Army.

Details about the Paint of the Terracotta Warriors

Polychrome terracotta warriors are mainly painted red, green, blue, yellow, purple, brown, white, black, blue nine colors. If coupled with the shades of different colors, such as Zhu Hong, pink, red, yellow, purple, pink and green, the color is more than a dozen species. Tests showed that these colors are minerals, like Red cinnabar, ochre, green malachite, azurite blue, purple red and blue copper synthesis, brown, white and kaolin, amorphous carbon black. These minerals are the main pigment of Chinese traditional painting. This is not only in the history of color painting art, but also in the history of world science and technology has important significance. In a word, painting process complex, various techniques, coloring is exquisite, fully displays the painting level and the texture of the sculpture and painting, true artistic effect. Pottery figurine is painted with strict simulation, but the tone control is given priority to with warm color, rarely use cool. The use of red, blue, green and other colors, cleverly show mighty side of Qin Army.

All in all, the painted army is not to be missed while traveling to China!