Friday, June 25, 2010

This week we went to a trip to Xi`an. Strangely, the thing I and everybody else will probably remember the most is our stay in the hotel; because we all got calls asking us if we would like to have a prostitute come to our room. However, this isn’t the first time I have heard talk about prostitutes. This trip exposed how prostitutes are a part of Chinese cultural.
In Xian we travelled to a very special and interesting place. In the 1970s, a farmer digging a well made a historic discovery. Only 5 years later, the museum was done being built. This museum of course was built around the discovery and according to the tour guide archeologist every night still go into the dirt and rebuild the terracotta soldiers and search for more.

In short, these soldiers are here because a very power emperor was buried here. And even before his death his grave was being built. According to a video we watched his grave took longer to build than the Great Wall of China. This emperor built the great wall, and unified China by defeating all the surrounding countries. The emperor was buried here with all of these soldiers. These soldiers were once actually painted. After this trip, I grasped how much more history China has compared to the US.

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