Terracotta army is basically soldier and horse funeral statues. The Terra cotta are warriors and horses are a huge collection of Terracotta sculptures that depict the many armies of Qin shi Huang. This person was the first emperor of china.

The figures that date from around two hundred and ten BC was first discovered by the year nineteen hundred and seventy four. This happens at the Xi'an Shaanxi province. The figures of the Terracotta Army; are of various heights and sizes.  Most of them, although are six to six and half feet tall. There are figures of warriors, chariots, horses, officials, acrobats, musicians and strongmen.  There are three large puts that have about eight thousand soldiers in them. There are about one hundred and thirty chariots and about five hundred and twenty horses. Adding to this there are about one hundred and fifty cavalry horses. A lot of these figures are still buried in the pits.

In the spring of the year nineteen hundred and seventy four, in the eastern side of Si'an which happens to be  in the Shaanxi province,  a group of farmers who happens to be digging a well in search of water, reach about a mile and a half under the surface of the earth. The mountainous region was known to consists of underground springs, water courses and a lot of extra water. This water would then be used to irrigate the many fields here.

About twenty households were asked to  move to the site of the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin.  This was done to watch over the tomb. Up till today, about twenty different villages  come into the immediate vicinity of the Mausoleum.  This is also where the Yang family once lived.  The descendants of the people  were the relatives of the guards and these people were entitled the job to guard it over the years.  There were lots of reports of figures and fragments of the Terracotta army and the Necropolis of the Qin dynasty. Things that were found , included, Chunks of mason work, bricks, tiles and such other material.