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Chinese Apartment Decorated With Terracotta Warriors

by on Monday, April 27, 2009 43 comments

From Mop:

Netizen encounters shocking decoration when looking for apartment to rent

My lease is up and I am thinking of changing places. I have limited money so very good places I cannot afford to rent but I also do not dare to live in places that are too bad. ~After selecting some places online, I eventually chose an apartment that the landlord said was decorated extremely well. Not only was it decorated very well, the price was also not expensive and this was too attractive for me. I hurriedly contacted the landlord wanting to immediately check the apartment’s surroundings planning to immediately take the place if it was not bad. However, after seeing the apartment, I am dumb-founded…

This decoration…

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Comments from NetEase:

bobby1221:

Faint, lou zhu, if you are really going to live in this house, you might as well jump into the first Qin emperor’s mausoleum.

剩女≠剩饭:

How nice. Very easy to find out how it felt to be the first Qin emperor.

readys:

This house is too ridiculous. The more frightening are the two in the restroom!

li-0012:

Truly a little petrifying…if I were to move in, I will have died of fright in the first night…

丑-鱼:

Lou zhu is so blessed, he can see the terracotta warriors everyday and not pay entrance.

新观念:

This decoration style is too alternative, no wonder even the landlord himself does not want to live there~

nishsb:

After moving in, you can dress your clothes on them and then you can save on clothes hangers, how nice…

apple-future:

The PS skill is not good enough yet, it did not successfully deceive my eyes!

jy02674498:

Every time the landlords rents out this house, the room gains an additional human-sized terracotta soldier.

lion.li-521:

It is impossible for the way normal people and artists or collectors think/see things to be identical! In this world, there are people who collect anything, not to mention having these things arranged throughout their entire rooms, even things made from dead people’s bones! It is no big deal, if you do not like it then do not live there. Finally, it looks like this house’s owner is pretty rich, each of these life-sized fake terracotta warriors must have cost several thousand each right?

Comments from Mop:

diablobobzhu:

This house’s owner is named Qin, right?

飘邈的感觉:

The terracotta warriors on the wall are actually the previous few tenants. LZ, be warned…

缘随风飘:

You can enjoy the feeling of having an audience while you eat, play games, and ML.租房子碰到这样的装修，吓死我了。。

妍歌5566:

Very creative design, although it is rather KB to live there at night.

lin8137:

Just what kind of mentality must one have to make one’s house into something like this?

7000亿美精:

I have seen houses that look Korean, houses that look Japanese, but this is the first time I am seeing one that looks Qin.

极度囧:

Too genius, who thought of this, this could not have been cheap yet the rent is very low…there must be something some secret plot inside, lou zhu hurry and find out what it is, I am waiting for your follow-up report.

小莱恩:

Sweat, decorated like this how could one not be frightened to death at night! It is Mummy 3!

Have you ever seen any really strange decorated apartments or homes?

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  1. Jay K
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:05 am

    YES I AM THE FIRST ALL PRAISE ME!

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  2. Kay T
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:08 am

    It’s quite cool this kind of warrior in your home. But I think I will get nightmare, so many of them. FIRSTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT T T !!1!1!!!111!

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  3. ChinaGeeks
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:10 am

    bwhahaha yeah “terrifying” is pretty much the only comment to make on this. who would create such an apartment?

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  4. Panda
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:16 am

    hahaha! Awesomeness.

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  5. Mike Fish
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:35 am

    I’m surpised his bed wasn’t a large stone sarcophogus.

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  6. Jay K
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:36 am

    Kay T you are not the first so get on your knees and apologze to me.

    2nd
    yes I would shat my pants if I lived in this apartment out of being scared like a young boy spending the night over in michael jackson’s home

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  7. 某某某
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 12:08 pm

    每天从猫扑天涯上摘些不痛不痒的文章翻译出来累不累，拿这些东西推介给老外有意义吗？这不是真实的中国，每天在猫扑回这些无聊的人的典型就是一个农村初中毕业在二级城市做网管或者小红理发店打工的人萎缩得躲在网吧里，你应该把告诉老外这些不是大众中国人对中国事物的看法和理解，也不是什么大众网名，是一些农民工而已

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    • ST
      Monday, April 27, 2009 at 2:12 pm

      Just for fun, here is Google Translate’s rendering of this:

      “Head per day from the cat on earth pick some perfunctory article translated tired not tired, take these things to promote a meaningful right to a foreigner? This is not true of China, a day in the cat’s head back to those silly people in rural areas is a typical junior high school graduates in the secondary cities do little red barber shop management or people working to shrink a cyber cafe to hide, you should tell a foreigner These are not the mass Chinese people on China’s views and understanding of things is not what Dazhong Net, is just a number of migrant workers”

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    • Peteryang
      Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:57 pm

      我觉得挺好，贴近生活，再说，什么不属于“不痛不痒”？？国家政治？民族大义？？？也可以讨论这些，但会引来一个团的垃圾，而且Chinasmack也时不常的有这类话题，300多条留言，比看韩剧还费劲。

      我觉得，精髓是需要人探索的，任何事物如果仔细研究，都能扯出一堆问号，然后变得很值得讨论，就像红楼梦，本来就那么一本书，被无数人刨根问底，于是出现了红学会，老头老太太们有事干了，解决了一部分温饱和就业问题，加速了我国的脱贫速度。

      上网的宗旨是轻松娱乐，没必要搞得太累，聊聊家常挺好。

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    • heeeeeeeere's johnny!
      Monday, April 27, 2009 at 4:50 pm

      What 某某某 basically said was, why are articles like this translated for foreigners? This is not real Chinese society. Stories like this are not mainstream or from mainstream popular websites. They are just from peasant websites.

      Then Peteryang below basically explained (I’m leaving a lot out) – who cares? These posts that are translated for foreigners here on chinasmack are just for fun, for entertainment.

      My reply to 某某某, though he probably can’t read it (and my brain is too tired to try to translate this correctly): in my experience the peasants are more truthful than the mainstream cityfolk. Perhaps the “peasant websites” also show a more true picture of what’s going on in chinese society? Even if not, people come to chinasmack to have A LAUGH, not to seriously contemplate politics. Try to see this website from that perpective and you might enjoy it! This isn’t anti-cnn! :-)

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      • Asis
        Monday, April 27, 2009 at 5:45 pm

        It’s always interesting to see what Chinese people will tell you is ‘真实的中国’(real China).

        The Chinese middle classes spend their lives ignoring the peasant masses of their country, so they expect us to ignore them too.

        Sometimes they even get upset about the idea of you finding out about things. China might lose face.

        Laowai – “Why does that barber shop have a pink light?”

        Chinese – “Oh, no no no. Look over there.. it’s a lovely shopping mall”

        I dare say that’s what’s going on here.

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        • Peteryang
          Monday, April 27, 2009 at 6:46 pm

          Not all Chinese are like that, and not all who are like that are Chinese, it’s just ignorance, my version of truth is that most Chinese are seriously sympathetic toward poor people, those yelling for motherland on the web are only minority.

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        • mekong
          Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 11:05 am

          How exactly are the middle class ignoring the poor?

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        • 某某某
          Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 3:04 pm

          Then you are wrong. I am not interested in telling you what real China is. Busting ass and making 50 cents an hour? That’s China. World’s most polluted area? That’s China. One the most corrupted counry? That’s China. Having to apply for temporary residence permit? That’s China. Cannot travel alone to Europe? That’s China.
          I am telling you in your face now China, like any other country in the word is multi faceted. An idiot would know China is a poor developing country with numerous problems about rich and poor, democracy, politics…
          The prosperity of cities like Shanghai, Shenzhen are probably just for your amusment, buerocrats, foreigners.
          I am telling you that most of the topics and comments are made by naive teenagers, farmer workers or those live miserabily based on what I know, local knowledge. They are often losers in real life and they seek comfort in posting abusive, twisted or biased topics and comments against other people, whatever government do regardless of truth. I am sure you will find tons of losers in China given the mass population, but you actually think they represent the real side of China?
          They are born losers, bro, does not matter if they were born in Qin, Han, Tang Dystany, Antigua or America, they would end up the same like this yelling all the time on internet and achieve nothing.
          Just don’t be smartpants, I know you are not that smart yet.

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          • Peteryang
            Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 9:53 pm

            I am tired of hearing these, say something interesting at least. Fact of the matter is, I do not deny China’s issues which you basically laid out, but I still enjoy my life here, sure it would be nicer if I live in a developed country (Luxembourg being one of my favourites), but I was born where I was, so I try to make the best of it.

            And no I don’t make 50 cents per hour, I make a decent flow of income for being an IT staff in a mid-sized company, and love 3D CG as my pass-time.

            So here comes the second thing I do not deny — we do have many ignorant teenagers/farmers/poor souls in China, but what place doesn’t? You see, I spent my entire youth life overseas and I almost never miss any major news, my understanding of the world is that stupid people are everywhere, country-independent. Over these years of being a netizen I have witness equal amount of dumbass on both sides, and in real life the demography does not vary too much.

            The way I see you, you are the same as your fenqing counterpart, who complain to no end and get outraged over anything.

            Again, what you said about China is true, but they just mean different to me.

  8. Rick in China
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 12:30 pm

    I’d likely get drunk and assemble them in various sexual positions, inviting women over to watch their shocked reactions to the absurd decoration choice.

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  9. Zhangsan
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    The ‘jiong’ character is the only fitting response here…

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  10. warped0ne
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:39 pm

    i have a feeling that the first night i got up to take a leak, i’d be smashing those things with a rolling pin/baseball bat because i would think it’s an intruder.

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  11. manusan
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 3:50 pm

    for information :
    The chinese politician continue to refuse to give an “original” Terracotta Warriors to a foreigner archeologue laboratory for a precise datation. The weapons was in steel (unknow before JC) without rusts. The japanese katana from 1000 years are completly rusts.
    Without proof, the Terracotta Warriors can be the best lie of China to the world.

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    • baijiansi
      Monday, April 27, 2009 at 6:28 pm

      Mmmm… Interesting. Can you back this up in any way, like with a link or something? Sounds both plausible and ridiculous.

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      • mekong
        Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 11:17 am

        Qin dynasty craftsman used salt-oxidization to coat the swords thus it prevents it from rusting. You can read about it in numerous research reports, google it. I don’t believe there’s any claim of the warriors being fake except for the fiasco at the German museum back in 2007.

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    • Mercator
      Monday, April 27, 2009 at 7:02 pm

      Take your tinfoil hat off Manusan.

      The weapons are BRONZE not steel.

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    • manusan
      Friday, May 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm

      the authenticity certificate are all chinese, nobody can confirm if it’s false, but nobody have the proof that is true. The easy way to prove it, is the make a Thermoluminescence datation test by an international team, but chinese gouvernement have always refused. This is the only archeologic discovert not dating conformely to international procedure.

      It’s regrettable that UNESCO continue to send money (your taxes) without ask scientific proof.

      sorry for my bad english

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  12. fozzwaldus
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 4:06 pm

    囧囧囧囧

    wow. creepy.

    reminds of the place they walk into in the Texas chainsaw massacre.

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  13. bert
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    What a psycho.

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  14. ambra
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 9:47 pm

    What can i say?!
    It’s very minimal!!! : )

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  15. Derf
    Monday, April 27, 2009 at 11:50 pm

    Don’t know what people are complaining about, that apartment is AWESOME.

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  16. Camela
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 3:55 am

    “Every time the landlords rents out this house, the room gains an additional human-sized terracotta soldier.”

    “The terracotta warriors on the wall are actually the previous few tenants. LZ, be warned…”

    I love these comments. Very imaginative! That would make a great Twilight Zone episode.

    The ones that seem to be sticking half in and half out of the walls are the highlight. Really adds to that half-excavated/ghostly feel.

    Can anyone seriously live like this? Wouldn’t you feel like you’re being watched all the time? I can maybe understand dedicating a whole wing to creepy statues and armors if you have a huge mansion, like in so many horror movies. But in an apartment? There is no escape from them… no escape from their stony gaze.

    Besides, I’d totally stub my toes about a hundred times every day. I’d have to foam pad their feet. Then I’ll probably find loose foam pads all over the place as they move around when nobody is looking…

    I don’t think they can be positioned. Those things must be pretty stiff and heavy. Nice idea, though. As is the idea of putting your clothes on them to save on hangers (but that might not work either – size might be a problem).

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  17. JessC
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Not the apartment to rent for those who enjoy shrumes.

    I know a certain man with a proclivity for stirrig cups that I would be forced to decline to invite for fear that the dead would be channeled.

    These warriors remind and everyone’s fear remind me of a scene in John Updike’s Witches of Eastwick where witches enliven the museum warriors for a minute or two as a vengeful act against a mostly innocent tour guide. Yikes!

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  18. fireworks
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 12:40 pm

    Nice decorations… Obviously someone has a big thing on culture to transform the apartment into a sort of museum.

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  19. 某某某
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 2:36 pm

    为避免误会，你可以在明显的地方标注你经常引用的猫扑或者天涯论坛是怎么样一个论坛，其浏览群体的年龄分布等等，既然你没说明，就不要把什么什么转来的观点和评论都灌上“Chinese Netizen”，中国的网民事个很笼统的概念，可以是猫扑的用户，也可以是新华网的用户，可以是60岁，也可以是15岁，但恐怕你转摘的文章的评论大多都来自80，90后混的不如意的小朋友吧，所以能够说明的话还是说明一下好

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  20. Priyanka singh
    Tuesday, April 28, 2009 at 3:10 pm

    So creepy!

    Not related to the topic, but an asian girl has written a more contemporary essay on why asian women date white men. Her version is closer to the truth. http://shetalkslikejune.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/of-white-men-asian-women-and-a-long-rant/

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  21. qin
    Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 12:43 am

    More warriors apartment pictures :

    http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_5b3a9b5d0100ao7y.html

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