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Terra Cotta Warriors Guide Commentary Hello, everyone! It my honor to be your tour guides. I’m Zoey Liao. Welcome to Xi’an. Xian is the capital of Shaanxi province, located in the southern part of the Guanzhong Plain. With the Qinling Mountains to the south and the Weihe River to the north, it is in a favorable geographical location surrounded by water and hills. It has a semi-moist monsoon climate and there is a clear distinction between the four seasons. Except the colder winter, any season is relatively suitable for traveling. Shaanxi not only has a lot of cultural relics and historic sites, but also has the beautiful natural scene: we have precipitous West Hua Mountain and Lin Tong Mt. black horse intelligent and elegant. When we talk about the famous tourist attractions, Emperor Qin Shihuang’s mausoleum and the Terra-cotta Warriors is the first one we must refers to talk. Emperor Qin Shihuang (259-210B.C.) had Ying as his surname and Zheng as his given name. He name to the throne of the Qin at age 13, and took the helm of the state at age of 22. By 221 B.C., he had annexed the six rival principalities of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao and Wei, and established the first feudal empire in China’s history. In the year 221 B.C., when he unified the whole country, Ying Zheng styled himself emperor. He named himself Shihuang Di, the first emperor in the hope that his later generations was the second, and the third even the one hundredth and thousandth emperors in proper order to carry on the hereditary system. Since then, the supreme feudal rulers of China’s dynasties had continued to call themselves Huang Di, the emperor. After he had annexed the other six states, Emperor Qin Shihuang abolished the enfeoffment system and adopted the prefecture and county system. He standardized legal codes, written language, track, currencies, weights and measures. To protect against harassment by the Hun aristocrats, Emperor Qin Shihuang ordered the Great Wall be built. All these measure