Cultural relics excavated in recent years from the Qinshihuang Mausoleum, home to the renowned terra-cotta warriors, set out for the Republic of Korea (ROK) Tuesday for their first overseas exhibition.
Jin Xianyong, an official with the Shaanxi Cultural Relics Bureau, said the 120 pieces, which include civilian tomb figures, sedentary figures, stone helmets and stone loricae, would be on exhibit in Seoul and Busan for a year.
Referring to the upcoming event as the second large-scale exhibition in the ROK following the 1994 exhibition of the terra-cotta warriors, Jin said that he was certain that the elegance of the civilian figures and the diversity of the sedentary figures would once again astound overseas viewers.
The first emperor to unite China in 221 B.C., Qinshihuang died of illness at the age of 49 in 210 B.C., four years before his dynasty's collapse.
(Xinhua News Agency June 25, 2003)
