Therefore, they should have appeared more realistic and individualized than now. Actually, the warriors were painted in proper colors when they were unearthed and originally equipped with real fully functional bronze weapons. They also have different builds, expressions and postures. Each warrior has intricate details with distinct styled hair and features. One of the most extraordinary features is the striking realism of the terracotta warriors. Therefore, the terracotta army attracts the public and scholars with diverse interests in ancient Chinese art, afterlife beliefs, funerary culture, craft technology, materials, logistics management and labor organization of building a mausoleum with such an incredibly large scale during ancient times.
The terracotta warriors expertly crafted with intricate features and clothing demonstrate an extraordinarily high level of achievement from the artistic perspective and also provide an invaluable reference for studying the military, political, economic, cultural, scientific, and technological aspects of the Qin Dynasty. The results reveal that the features of the terracotta warriors highly resemble those of contemporary Chinese people and indicate that terracotta warriors were crafted from real portraits and intended to constitute a real army to protect the Emperor Qin Shihuang in the afterlife. The similarities and dissimilarities were analyzed among the facial features of terracotta warriors and 29 modern Chinese ethnic groups using mathematical statistics methods such as MDS, ANOVA, ranking analysis and cluster analysis. This research examined the facial features of the terracotta warriors in a quantitative and contactless way with the support of the High-precision 3D point cloud modelling technology and the anthropometric method. It is still debated whether the life-size models were based on individual people or were just crafted from the standardized models. The striking realism of the life-sized ceramic terracotta warriors has been attracting the interest of the public and archaeologists since they were discovered from the mausoleum complex of the first Chinese Emperor Qin Shihuang in the 1970s.
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