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Xi'an, China-March 24th, First Lady Michelle Obama visited the Terracotta Army in Xi'an with her mother and two daughters. These Terracotta Warriors were hand-made over 2,00 years ago. It's worth mentioning that every Terracotta soldier has different poses and facial expressions.

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First lady wrote down her exhilarating experience on "the White House Blog". "Perhaps the most amazing thing about the Terra Cotta Warriors is that for two thousand years, they were a complete secret.  The warriors were buried and forgotten until 1974, when a group of farmers found the head of one of the soldiers when they were looking for a good spot to dig a well.  That led archaeologists to uncover the underground army, which included not only clay soldiers, but also clay horses, wooden and bronze chariots and treasures of jade and gold.  The warriors were broken into pieces and had to be painstakingly pieced back together again. together again. Today, we saw both warriors that had been restored and many that were still in pieces." First lady Michelle Obama said.

Shen Maosheng, a deputy director of Qinshihuang's mausoleum site park, was unearthing warriors in the first pit when Michelle Obama visited there. He told our reporters: "We were cleaning up a Terracotta Warrior's colored drawings when First Lady Michelle Obama talked to me. Those drawings on the warrior are quite fresh." First Lady Michelle Obama asked Shen Maosheng whether those colored drawings are original. Shen Maosheng told Michelle Obama these warriors are just discovered, and the colored drawings on their bodies are original. Michelle Obama hopes Director Shen Maosheng can share his experience on protecting the historical relics with American archaeologists if he would go to the United States in the future.