XI’AN, China, March 22 (Bernama-AsiaNet) — To mark the 50th anniversary of the normalization of China-Japan diplomatic ties, a well-planned exhibition of cultural relics titled “Terracotta Warriors and Ancient China – Legacy of Qin and Han Civilizations” will open in Kyoto, Japan on March 25, according to the Shaanxi History Museum (Shaanxi Cultural Relics Exchange Center) in Xi’an, China. More than 120 pieces (groups) of cultural relics, including the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Qin Dynasty, have arrived in Japan by sea and will be exhibited in Japan soon, marking a new chapter in cultural exchanges between China and Japan.
The exhibits gathered from 17 cultural and museum institutions including the Shaanxi History Museum and the Emperor Qinshihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum of China, more than 120 pieces (groups) of cultural relics, including stone artifacts, bronzes, gold vessels, jade articles, Qin bamboo slips and other precious cultural relics from the Western Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, with a time span of more than 1,000 years from the Western Zhou Dynasty to the late Eastern Han Dynasty.