Yangling, China, 1991
Photograph by O. Louis Mazzatenta

    An old man carries a basket of corn during China's harvest time, when all non-essential work ceases and seemingly every available space is used for corn drying. In fact, when a 2,100-year-old terra cotta army was found at Han emperor Jing Di's tomb, excavation was halted so workers could harvest corn.
    (Text adapted from and shot on assignment for, but not published in "A Chinese Emperor's Army for Eternity," August 1992, National Geographic magazine)

阳陵，中国，1991
摄影/澳.刘易斯.麦泽塔

    一位老者手提装满玉米的篮子。汉景帝阳陵挖掘出土2100年前的兵马俑，考古工作暂时停止，以利周边农民晾晒玉米。

    (图片及文选自《美国国家地理杂志》1992年 8月号《中国帝王的来世雄兵》专题，未公开发表。译文/Toohearts)

    注：阳陵是汉景帝刘启及其皇后王氏同茔异穴的合葬陵园，位于今陕西省咸阳市渭城区正阳镇张家湾、后沟村北的咸阳原上, 地跨咸阳市渭城区、泾阳县、高陵县三县区。