When relating to the world wonders, everyone would record the famous Great Wall and Xian Terracotta Warriors. As the world Eighth Wonder, Xian Terracotta Warriors have attracted loads of attention in the tourists with mysterious appearance and grand building construction, as well as the skillful building ideas. However, do you have a fully exploration about these terracotta figures? How many ideas do you get why they were built as these appearances?

Layout of Terracotta Figures

Upon entering into these three pits, what appeared in your eyes will be these various figures and lifelike facial appearance. Recent years, there have many professional experts researched to them and went on deep study. According to an interesting phenomenon, the appearances of terracotta warriors unearthed from the Emperor Qinshihuang Tomb closely resemble those of modern Chinese people. Most interesting is that almost every facial variation of modern Chinese man could be found amongst the terracotta figures. Such an amazing design and ideas make all the tourists shocked and sighed.

Shapes of Terracotta Facial Looks

After the accidental findings, there are many experts concluding the species of terracotta figures. According to the differences and different features, these well-designed facial shapes could be classified into six types similar to the strokes of certain Chinese characters. If you carefully researched, you will find these figures are no more than these six types. First facial type is the "国" shape face. This kind of facial types presented rectangular face with high cheekbone, wide forehead and cheek. Second will be the "用" shape type. It showed the oblong face with flat cheek and chin. Each kind of shape has special features and appearance. Whichever shapes, you would choose from these delicate terracotta figures.

Theory of Well-designed Figure Shapes
After getting the classified features, tourists will ask that why they were built like this and what kind of meaning they concluded and predicted. Under these various questions, researchers did some explorations that they thought the eyes of these figures could be regarded as the window to a man's heart so the artisans carved different eyes to represent the mysterious inner world of different soldiers. Tour here, you would find some soldiers have squinty eyes and a tender smile. This represented these soldiers are showing their confidence winning the war. So, you could guess the idea of ancient builders. They reflected the appearance of soldiers of Qin Dynasty.

This world wonder created many new wonders to show off!