Terracotta Army is the first time in more than 10 years that the warriors have travelled to the UK. Terracotta Army The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210–209 BCE with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife. The figures, dating from approximately the late third century BCE, were discovered in 1974 by local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, People's Republic of China, Shaanxi province. The figures vary in height according to their roles,
Xi Shengmo Xi Shengmo Xi Sheng Mo (; c. 1836–1896) also known as "Pastor Hsi", was a Chinese Christian leader. He was born "Xi Zizhi" in a village near Linfen, became a Confucian scholar, and after his conversion to Christianity changed his given name to Shengmo or "Conqueror of Demons". Having been an opium addict himself, he ran a ministry to opium addicts in many locations over a considerable area. There is more written about Xi than any other 19th-century Chinese Protestant, due largely to the two-volume biography written about him by Geraldine Taylor of the China Inland Mission. David Hill, an