During a week-long Chinese holiday, we had the opportunity to fly to Xi'an (pronounced shee-ann) for a couple of days of sight-seeing. We met other of our BYU colleagues there who had been on a much longer portion of the trip that we weren't able to go on.
XI'AN, CHINA IS THE HOME OF THE
XI'AN, CHINA IS THE HOME OF THETERRACOTTA WARRIORS
We're standing on a side wall of Pit #1. If you have never heard the story behind these clay warriors, look it up on Wikipedia.I'm not to take the space to explain it here. But, it truly is an amazing story and these are truly one of the 8 Wonders of the World.
There is a cute story behind this picture. The old part of the city of Xi'an is surrounded by a very long and wide brick wall. As we traveled part way around the wall, we looked down into a courtyard and spotted all these "mimes" dressed up like warriors. We hurried down a very long flight of stairs. Truman had me stand in front of this warrior and was gesturing that he should put his arm on my shoulder. After a minute of watching Truman's "song and dance", the soldier looked him in the eyes and said, in English, "You want me hug her?"
Awe, cute lil Chinese man :). I thought he was a statue at first. Is he wearing paint on his face? It doesn't look so comfortable. That's an amazing picture of all the clay statues!
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