Posted on 05/30/2010 8:31:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Cool. My son is fascinated by these.
It makes no sense to paint the skin pink. Pink denotes European traits.
I too am fascinated by these figures....Kind of cool...
The ultimate government make work project.
Emperor: This is great. We’re gonna make 2 million clay statues of warriors.
Prime Minister: Heaven praise our god like leader but why sire?
Emperor: Don’t worry, when we’re done we’ll bury them.
Think how much better a world we would have if the ancients had discovered the power of medicinal lithium.
“Pink denotes European traits.”
Everyone wants to be like the White Guy!
The comedian Russell Peters says so!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn5jlrxcpkI
starts at 2:50
So, the horde is pink, not yellow
Hey, a lot can change over a couple of thousand years. ;’)
They probably assumed everyone outside China to be barbarians. Besides, that shade isn’t any harder to imagine on a Chinese face, than it is, on a European one. The eyes don’t lie. Literally, LOL!
What are you going to do? When the crayon says “flesh,” you use it!
ROFLOL.
They looked so much better without paint.
Actually, light-skinned Chinese like my mother are closer to pink than tan or “yellow.” In olden days, many in the upper classes of Asia and Europe actually sought to avoid the sun since dark skin was associated with manual labor such as farming and construction. Many went so far as to powder their faces to make themselves look even paler.
My Belgian girlfirend’s mother had such porcelain-like skin, you could almost see the blue of her veins. Unfortunately, her daughter, who had a peaches-and-cream complexion as a little girl, discovered tanning in college and though she doesn’t look as bad as many I’ve seen, she would have done well to skip so much sunning.
“Pink denotes European traits.”
Where did you pick that up? I was standing behind a Chinese woman at the checkout counter in the supermarket, and she was whiter than I And I am of European stock.
I will give you this much. She was not pink. She was milk white.
Chinese civilization is old.
What happens to a book as it ages?
Stunning. The terra cotta army is beautiful, I can only imagine it in full color.
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