Feng Shui Domains: The Legend of the Terra Cotta Warriors of Ch'in Shi
There is a magnificent legend pertaining to the Terra Cotta Warriors of China.
Circa 206BC the Emperor Ch'in Shi (the first emperor to unify mainland China under one kingdom) made a decree to be administered after his death, that his body be clothed in jade and cast adrift in a lake of Mercury, completely contained within a pyramid, was to be protected by an everlasting army of symbolic warriors.
After Ch'in Shi died, legend has it that he ascended to live in the Sun as a God.
In 1974, archaeologists discovered the first of what would eventually turn out to be 8,000 life-size terracotta warriors buried near the pyramid tomb of Ch'in Shi Huangdi, confirming that the legend was more than myth.
But why were the massive soldiers, each weighing more than half a ton, buried there at all? Was it simply to guard the Emperor in the afterlife?
The Secret Codes of the Terracotta Warriors
Spring of 1974, is one the people of Lintong province will never forget. For a brief split second the vaporised breath of three young farmers was all that remained of the men who moments earlier had toiled together.
It seemed that the field, two miles from Xiyang, had swallowed them up, together with the drill, the tripod and several wooden buckets, that were to provide - once they had recovered from the shock of the fall - a means of escape.
They had tumbled into an ancient passageway, which collapsed around them, sending clouds of dust bellowing high into the sky above. As it cleared, they found themselves surrounded by an army of warriors in full battledress; a life-size army of terracotta soldiers that gazed, expressionless, at the unexpected intruders.
Within hours archaeologists, from the nearby town of Yanzhai, arrived to seal the site from prying eyes.
Test digs confirmed that more than 8,000 life-size terracotta soldiers, buried more than 2,000 years ago, around 220 BC, filled four concealed underground chambers.
Archaeologists were surprised to find that the shapes of the faces [taken together with the shape of the head and the hairstyle] of the 8,099 soldiers, corresponded to just 10 shapes of the 10,516-character Chinese alphabet. Curiously, although the official site record from Xian provides the names of the characters, archaeologists never explained their meaning.
Perhaps it never occurred to them to enquire what each of the characters stood for. Or perhaps they knew, and preferred not to say. In any event, they hastily reburied the soldiers and concealed the test holes.
Nobody was allowed near the site for almost two years, when excavation recommenced, although the authorities never said why. To this day the official site guide refuses to give the meaning of the 10 Chinese characters.
It's hard to see the reason for the secrecy. After all, Chinese - English dictionaries are freely available throughout the Western world to provide definitions of the characters... which reveal a secret message...
Focus the eye on the soldiers in the covered tunnels. Read the meaning of the national [Chinese] characters differently; use the mind to understand the story which spans from the beginning of time until now; a story about the Sun and God.
They taught that the soul is imperishable, everlasting and - for the pure - destined for the stars; rebirth on earth awaits the rest. So they encoded their secrets into their treasures to give those that failed this time a better chance of redemption, the next time around.
5 separate codes are concealed in the warriors. The face shapes is just one of them. The decoded stories reveal extraordinary knowledge found in other spiritual texts (including the Book of Revelation in the Christian Bible, and the Hindu Bhagavad Gita) that explain the true purpose of life; why we live, why we die and why this has to be - and the remarkable secrets of heaven, hell, and immortality.
Face Shape Chinese
CharacterTranslation Face Shape Chinese
Character&Translation 1: Focus attention on person or thing
2: Distress, wounded soldiers.1: A tunnel
2: Covered corridor or passageway1: Incant, read with intonation
2: See a point by clever analogy1: Story, course of events
2: How something happened
3: Basic cause1: A country, nation
2: National treasures1: The Sun 1: Number 9
2: God1: Farm
2: A Fertile Mind1: The first
2: The beginning1: Up to a point or period of time
2: Until now
