XIAN: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the famous Terracotta Warriors Museum which has a large collection of sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China.
Modi visited the museum this morning after arriving here to a grand welcome on a three-day trip during which he will also visit Beijing and Shanghai.
The Prime Minister spent about an hour going around the museum. He also enquired about the excavation work being undertaken there.
In the visitors book, Modi wrote that he was “deeply impressed” by the extraordinary care with which the museum has been preserved.
The museum complex houses the ‘Terracotta Army’ or the ‘Terracotta Warriors and Horses’, a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin.
The museum complex, a UN world heritage site, also houses Qin’s mausoleum.
Modi later visited Da Xing Shan temple, spending some time there and offered obeisance. It is the ancestor court of MI School (Vajrayan) of Chinese Buddhism.
The Prime Minister seeing a large enthusiastic crowd at a crossing near the temple spontaneously stopped and shook hands with some of the Chinese people as they chanted “Modi, Modi”.
The security personnel had a tough time controlling the surging crowds.
“The Daxingshan Temple is beautiful. Visited various Halls of the Temple & interacted with monks,” Modi tweeted.–PTI
