it is spectacular site an army of teracotta warriors built to guard the tomb of qin shihuang, the emperor who unified china in 220 b.c. in march 1974, an unusually bad drought prompted the local commune leader to send several farmers to dig a well in Lintong, just outside Xian. According to Yang Zhifa, it was about noon on the third day of digging when he and one other farmer were six feet deep in a hole and he hot something hard. Digging it out, Yang Zhifa saw a torso shaped piece of terracotta, carved in the 10 shape of a warrior's tunic