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The sun came out today!

We spent most of the day at the Terracotta Warriors. This is quite an archiological site, covering many acres. An Emporer several centuries ago started building thousands of clay warriors below ground level in the hope that these warriors would fend off the spirits and he would be able to rule after he died. So for over 35 years he had thousands of peasants and slaves build this site. Of course it did not work, and after his death the peasants smashedmost of the warriors. Fast forward to 1974, and a farmer was digging a well and stumbled upon this site, and a few years later they started to unearth all of these clay statues (2,000 of about 8,000 so far). Now the 80 year old farmer sits in the gift shop and signs his autograph to the coffe table book with all the info in it. Of course the State took over the land gets all the money from the admissions. It is all quite interesting, and amazing.

Tonight, we went to a Chinese show and dinner. The show had ancient instruments and dance's in costume. Very graceful.