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Why can't the Terracotta Warriors take pictures?

1. You will use a flash when taking pictures. The strong light of the mobile phone flash will act as a catalyst and react with the clay figurine, which is not conducive to its preservation.

As we all know, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum are listed as "the eighth wonder of the world". But in the final analysis, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses are a kind of funerary objects, which belong to the "funerary objects" like the Tang Sancai. In traditional folk customs, it is unlucky to display the tri-colored Tang Dynasty at home and take photos with the Terracotta Warriors.

Terracotta warriors and horses can't take pictures, nor can they take pictures in the pit. There are only two ways to visit the pit: one is to become a foreign politician or his family; The second is to study archaeology, enter the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum and become a staff member.

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In fact, the original paint of Terracotta Warriors and Horses has ten colors, such as purple, black, red and green, but it often oxidizes and peels off after being exposed to air for less than five minutes. In 2009, Sino-German cooperative painting protection technology successfully preserved the colors of the unearthed terracotta warriors and horses. In the NHK special program of Japan on 20 15, soldiers with residual colors after treatment can be exposed to the air for display.

Among them, "Chinese purple" is the most concerned. /kloc-before the appearance of synthetic violet in the 1950s, people used color matching to prepare purple, but "Chinese violet" is a synthetic copper-barium silicate pigment.