This year (2024) is the 50th anniversary of the excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang, and on September 8, the "50th Anniversary of the Archaeological Excavation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses and the International Conference on the Protection and Research of the Great Ruins of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang" was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi. The basic exhibition "The Underground Kingdom of the First Emperor of the Ages - Archaeological Discovery Exhibition of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang" was opened at the same time, and the archaeological discoveries of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin were exhibited to the public for the first time.
As a useful supplement to the display of the terracotta warriors and horses pit site of Qin Shi Huang, the basic exhibition "The Underground Kingdom of the First Emperor of the Ages - Archaeological Discovery Exhibition of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang" is based on the archaeological excavation results of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and 230 pieces (groups) of cultural relics are exhibited, which are representative cultural relics in the archaeological excavation results of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in the past 50 years, presenting the appearance, connotation and value of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in an all-round and multi-angle manner. Among them, the ruins of the east gate of the outer city of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, the ruins of the mausoleum building, the ruins of the official and the unearthed cultural relics of the No. 1 burial tomb in the west of the tomb are all presented to the audience for the first time in the exhibition.
The exhibition is divided into eight units, including Qin Shi Huangdi, Lishan Mausoleum, Palace View Hundred Officials, Underground Army, Royal Garden, and Palace Entertainment, displaying the mighty and tall high-level armored military figurines, exquisite and heavy stone armor, the bronze waterfowl found for the first time in the archaeology of the Qin Dynasty, the wrong gold and silver Yuefu bell, the first to confirm that the original name of the Qin Shi Huang Emperor's Mausoleum was "Lishan Garden", the first to confirm the Lishan Garden bronze bell of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum's original name "Lishan Garden", the largest volume of the Qinling Tomb archaeological discoveries, and the Qin two edicts and bronze rights that witnessed the unification of Qin weights and measures, etc., showing the "underground kingdom" of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum The colorful and great era that Qin represents.