Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday visited the famous Terracotta Warriors Museum, which has a large collection of sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.
Modi visited the museum this morning after arriving here to a grand welcome on a three-day trip
during which he will also visit Beijing and Shanghai.
The Prime Minister spent about an hour going around the museum. He also enquired about the excavation work being undertaken there. In the visitors book, Modi wrote that he was “deeply impressed” by the extraordinary care with which the museum has been preserved.
The museum complex houses the ‘Terracotta Army’ or the ‘Terracotta Warriors and Horses’, a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin. The complex, a UN heritage site, also houses Qin’s mausoleum. The visit to the museum was Modi’s first official engagement in Shaanxi province of Xi’an. The mausoleum of Qin, being the tomb of the first emperor who unified the country, is the largest in Chinese history. The mausoleum is associated with an event of universal significance, the first unification of the Chinese territory by a centralised state created by an absolute <g data-gr-id="20">monarch</g> in 221 BC.