This is a pretty standard shot of some of the 1000+ warriors that have been reconstructed from the Qin dynasty.

The Terracotta Army is a form of funerary art buried with the Emperor of Qin (Qin Shi Huang) in 209-210 BC (his reign over Qin was from 247 BC to 221 BC and unified China from 221 BC to the end of his life in 210 BC). Their purpose was to help rule another empire with Shi Huang Di in the afterlife. Consequently, they are also sometimes referred to as "Qin's Armies."

The emperor Qin that commissioned this 7,000+ army of warriors and horse-drawn chariots was quite a nasty fellow. He buried alive all of the engineers of his burial tomb once the project was completed so noone would know how to enter once sealed. Within three years of his death, the peasants staged an uprising due to the awful treatment and destroyed everything they had been forced to construct. The site was burnt and left for ruin.

The Terracotta Warriors were discovered in March 1974 by local farmers drilling a water well to the east of Lishan (Mount Li). Mount Li is also where the material to make the terracotta warriors originated. In addition to the warriors, an entire man-made necropolis for the emperor has been excavated.