Twelve Metal Colossi

12 Jin Ren (Chinese:十二金人) were 12 huge bronze Colossi made by the order of Shihuangdi, the first Emperor of China, by collecting the weapons and casting them, after he had conquered the other six states.[1]

References

  1. ^ 收天下兵，聚之咸阳，销以为钟镣，金人十二，各重千石，置廷宫中.Records of the Grand Historian (rendering: collect the weapons of tianxia, to amass them to Xianyang, melt them to cast 12 colossus, each weighs thousand Dan (mass unit), and put them in the palace)

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