At that time, in the early stages of casting the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, Qin Shihuang listened to the words of an unscrupulous Feng Shui master and decided to use real people to cast them. That is, while the person was still alive, he would apply countless layers of carefully prepared soil on the person's body map until the person was completely

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The person was wrapped tightly and the image of the person was outlined, and then the living person, covered with mud, was put into the kiln and fired at high temperature until the outer layer of mud was as hard as stone.

The people inside had long since been roasted to ashes.

In this way, a living person became the earliest terracotta warriors and horses. This is also the so-called real stone carving, which means using a living person to make sculptures. Making real stone carvings is very difficult, and the failure rate is even higher.

The cost is astonishingly high. Usually twenty or thirty such stone carvings are produced, which may cost at least hundreds of lives, and the success rate is less than 40%.

Because this method was too cruel and expensive, it attracted the opposition of many ministers, and most of the people who were captured to make stone carvings of the real body were soldiers in Qin Shihuang's army. Of course, these soldiers were not willing to be roasted to death like this.

As a result, many soldiers in the army mutinied. Due to these pressures, Qin Shihuang had to stop casting stone carvings of his true body. Instead, he listened to the opinions of his ministers and fired them directly with clay, which is the terracotta warriors and horses we see now.

However, according to some unofficial records in history, Qin Shihuang did not stop casting these real stone carvings at that time, but changed from large-scale casting to small batch secret manufacturing. After Qin Shihuang's death, these few real real stone carvings

He was buried with Qin Shihuang, but these stone carvings of the real body are not like the other terracotta warriors and horses in the main tomb.

In the outdoor tomb, there is a huge mercury coffin next to Qin Shihuang. After Qin Shihuang, there has never been a stone carving of the real body. Even if it does appear, it is a senior monk who appeared in Buddhism, that is, an eminent monk who died.

Later, his body was made into a clay sculpture by his descendants, but it was only a clay sculpture, not a stone carving of his real body that had been fired at high temperatures.

I have only seen this real stone carving in history books and some unofficial histories. I have never seen it in reality, and the real thing has never appeared in China’s archaeological history. I really didn’t expect to see it here.
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