Careful friends will find that many children and women like to wear jade, this is not just for decoration, people often say "people raise jade, jade raise people", the mineral elements in jade will be slowly absorbed by the human body, moisturizing the heart and lungs, clearing the stomach and fire, clearing the eyes, good for the body; people wear jade for a long time and can nourish it, jade will become more and more transparent. These have scientific basis, not empty words, the ancient Chinese people have long known the benefits of jade, so the ancient emperors created a "golden jade coat" for themselves.
In 1968, the tombs of Liu Sheng and Dou Xie of the Western Han Dynasty excavated two complete sets of burial clothes of ancient emperors and nobles, "Golden Jade Clothes", which have a history of more than 2,000 years. It is the most complete preservation and the earliest two sets of golden jade clothes in China's archaeological excavations, Liu Shengyu is 1.88 meters long, sharing 2498 pieces of jade, and about 1100 grams of gold wire. Dou Yuyu is 1.72 meters long, sharing 2160 pieces of jade and about 700 grams of gold wire, and the archaeology community around the world is shocked!
In 1973, another piece of "golden jade coat" was unearthed, but it was not so lucky, the golden jade cloth of the tomb of King Huaiwang in Zhongshan in the eastern suburbs of Dingzhou City, Hebei Province, all the gold wire was stolen by tomb thieves, jade pieces were scattered everywhere, archaeologists had no way, picked up thousands of pieces of jade to clean up, and then found 2 pounds of gold to rebuild the gold wire, one by one "sewn" up.
So the question is, what kind of people are tomb robbers, we all know, valuable things they absolutely do not let go, but these thousands of pieces of jade, why are they unwilling to touch? This brings us back to the value of jade mentioned at the beginning of the article.
Jade is one of the important components of traditional Chinese culture, and the jade culture produced by it has deeply influenced the ideological concepts of ancient Chinese, and the idiom "Ning for jade crushing" is our patriotic national integrity; "turning gango into jade" is a symbol of our unity and fraternity.
The ancient Chinese believed that jade is the crystallization of the essence of heaven and earth, from the Neolithic age has been passed down to today, what jade is made of can not be measured by money, it is a symbol of status hierarchy, China is the country of love jade, do you remember the story of "Heshi Bi"? King Qin Zhaowang is willing to exchange 15 cities for a piece of "Heshi Bi", and we can know the status of jade in China.
The "golden jade robe" is not for everyone to be eligible to use, and it is the highest specification burial dress worn by emperors and high-ranking nobles in the Han Dynasty (206 BC to 220 AD) after their deaths, and the appearance is the same as that of the human body.
So point 1, tomb robbers can't steal. Gold and silver can be taken to melt and reforge, and the beads on the jewelry can be cut down one by one to sell, what do you do with the jade? You dare to sell immediately to you and catch it.
Moreover, the golden jade coat is not ordinary jade, according to the level of craftsmanship of the Han Dynasty, to make a jade coat, it takes 1 top jade craftsman to polish and spend more than 10 years to complete, and the jade piece hides a delicate pattern, and he does not dare to take it when it is given to the tomb robber.
Point 2, grave robbers do not dare to steal. Jade has spirituality, the Han Dynasty people believe that putting jade on the nine tricks of man, people's essence will not leak out, can make the bones of the corpse not decay, can be reborn in the next life, we now seem to know that this is nonsense, but the tomb robbers feel that the jade with spirituality accompanies the dead for a long time, the aura will become evil, it is "unclean", who dares to touch who is a dead end. Gradually, not stealing jade became the default rule in the tomb robbery line.
Today, China has unearthed 18 Western Han Tombs with jade clothes, of which only 8 have golden jade clothes, a total of more than 10 pieces. The most powerful is the golden jade robe of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, unearthed in 1968, and it is no exaggeration to say that its excavation has caused a sensation around the world.
By the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Pi issued an edict banning jade clothes, so the history of golden jade clothes is only more than 400 years, making it more precious, interested friends can go to the museum to see for themselves.