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兵马俑是秦始皇带去地府的军队模型， 有8000战士， 是泥塑陶制的整支军队， 尺寸真实， 深埋在皇帝陵墓附近。 原来应该是色彩丰富， 出土时氧化失去颜色。 这一支军队仿佛已经排出接战前的阵形， 有步兵阵、弓弩阵， 车兵阵， 还有车骑混合阵、 车步混合阵， 另有独立的指挥部阵列， 阵法森然。 阵前杀机纵横， 夺军人心魄。 士兵们神情庄严， 姿态从容， 军阵中弥漫着秦军战魂。
The Terracotta Army is a model of the army that Qin Shi Huang took to the afterlife, with 8,000 soldiers, a whole army made of clay and陶制的，尺寸真实， deeply buried near the emperor's mausoleum. Originally it was brightly colored but oxidized and lost its colors upon excavation. This army seems to be already arranged in battle formation, with infantry formations, crossbowman formations, chariot formations, as well as mixed formations of chariots and步兵，混合阵，以及车骑混编阵， 另有独立的指挥部排列，阵法森然。 阵前杀机四伏，震慑人心。 Soldiers look solemn and composed, and the army formation exudes the fighting spirit of the Qin army.
皇帝带着这支部队去了地府， 从此中国也就变了。
The emperor took this army to the Underworld, and from then on, China changed.
公元前210年， 秦始皇崩， 就是死了。 他的大臣就拉来一头鹿对他的儿子说：这是一匹马。
In 210 BC, Qin Shi Huang died. His ministers brought a deer to his son and said: This is a horse.
曾有预言：秦亡于胡。 并不是塞外胡人攻入了大秦首都， 而是秦始皇的儿子恰好名为：胡亥。
Prophecy once said: The Qin will fall to the Hu. Not because the Huns from beyond the frontier attacked the capital of Qin, but because the son of Emperor Qin Shi Huang happened to be named Hu Hai.
然而秦始皇已经奠定了中国帝王制度， 从此再难有人能走出他的阴影。 始皇帝的意思也就是中国史的事实： 从此中国皇帝都是他的儿皇帝、孙皇帝，包括毛泽东。 所谓：始皇帝之后，百代皆秦制。 一百代人口至少将是二到三千年， 也就是直到今天， 在人类进入第二十一个世纪的时候中国人民也仍然沦陷在秦制暴政中。 也许是受到《书同文》约束的文字系统就失去了拆解暴政体制的可能性， 必须从其它语言文字中借用力量，否则无法得到自由。
However, Qin Shi Huang had established the Chinese imperial system, from which no one could ever escape his shadow. The meaning of Emperor Qin Shi Huang is also the historical fact of China: henceforth, all Chinese emperors were his son-emperors or grandson-emperors, including Mao Zedong. As they say: after Emperor Qin Shi Huang, all generations followed the Qin system for a hundred generations. At least two to three thousand years, which is until today, when the people of China are still trapped in the tyranny of the Qin system during the 21st century. Perhaps constrained by the unified writing system enshrined by "Book of Same Characters," it lost the possibility of dismantling the tyrannical system. Power had to be borrowed from other languages and scripts to achieve freedom.
兵马俑的技术和艺术似乎是一个中国技术、艺术史中的孤例， 中国人在秦始皇之后不再制作兵马俑一类的作品。 如同古埃及人，他们在秦始皇之前二千年，早就不再修建新的金字塔了，
The techniques and artistry of the Terracotta Warriors seem to be a solitary example in the history of Chinese technological and artistic development. After Qin Shi Huang, the Chinese did not produce works like the Terracotta Warriors. Like the ancient Egyptians, who ceased building new pyramids two thousand years before Qin Shi Huang,
Menkaure's pyramid, he's fifth or sixth king of the 4th dynasty of Egypt,
Menkaure's pyramid, he was the fifth or sixth king of the 4th dynasty of Egypt,