Xuzhou was the land of Longxing in the Western Han Dynasty, where Liu Bang had sealed his fourth brother Liu Jiao as the King of Chu, and there were twelve Chu kings in the Western Han Dynasty.
The territory of the Jiuli Mountain stretches for miles, magnificent, standing on the top of the mountain to look around, the field of vision is wide, the south was once the Yellow River rolling into the sea, is the "overhead mountain, foot on the water" of the feng shui treasure land, from the Beginning of the Western Han Dynasty to various periods, the dignitaries have chosen to sleep here.
Many people know the golden jade coat, in fact, the jade coat has three kinds of gold, silver and copper, which are used according to different grades and specifications.
The golden jade garment of the tomb of the King of Hanchu in Xuzhou Lion Mountain is currently the earliest jade cloth unearthed in China, the largest number of jade pieces, the best jade quality and the most exquisite production process
Jade clothes are also called "jade boxes" and "jade garnets", and the appearance is the same as the shape of the human body. Especially in the Han Dynasty, people believed that jade could keep the bones immortal, so the jade was used as a noble ceremonial instrument and a symbol of status, which was a burial dress worn by the emperors and high-ranking nobles of the Han Dynasty after their deaths (because of the cost of labor and wealth, and the excessive importance and serious theft, the Three Kingdoms Cao Pi issued an edict banning jade clothes).
The jade robes of the emperor and some of his close subjects were knotted with gold threads, called "golden jade clothes", and other nobles used silver and copper wires to make them up, called "silver jade clothes" and "copper jade clothes".
There are about ten pieces of jade clothes in existence, but there are only two pieces of silver jade clothes that are basically complete, both excavated in Xuzhou and only one piece is complete.
In 1970, it was excavated from the tomb of Liu Gong, the descendant of King Pengcheng of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Xuzhou. The total length of the jade coat is 1.70 meters, more than 2600 pieces of jade, about 800 grams of silver wire, the shape is similar to the golden jade coat, and it is now stored in the Nanjing Museum.
In 1996, it was excavated from the Volcanic Han Tomb in Xuzhou. With a total length of 1.81 meters, it is made of 2216 pieces of Hetian qingyu jade pieces and more than 1000 grams of silver wire, which is the earliest and most complete preserved piece of silver jade cloth excavated in the country.
This time we are going to introduce this Liu and silver jade coat.
Liu He's silver jade coat, the only complete silver jade robe in the Western Han Dynasty
Sleeping for thousands of years, it was discovered due to the quarrying of the mountain
The excavation of Liu He's tomb was quite dramatic, in the 1990s, when the stone field opened the mountain, a square stone cave was blown up, because han tombs were often found in the local area, and experienced workers and responsible persons reported it at the first time.
Archaeologists arrived at the scene, found that it is a typical vertical cave tomb, two rafters were blown up one, two walls of the vertical cave were blown up after the residue is less, experts decided to take the soil from above layer by layer for excavation until the rafter cover, excavation work until the remaining two stone walls paste mud has not been cleared, for the safety of cultural relics, arrange the village joint defense team members to be on duty at night.
The burial chamber that still exists today is very square
But did not think, the head of archaeology in the night at more than one o'clock in the morning was woken up by the phone, when the first reaction museum accident, because at that time the security facilities of museums across the country were very poor, theft also occurred from time to time, but did not think, is the volcano Han tomb excavation site called.
Curious joint defense team members, the silver jade coat that came out
At night, the joint defense team in charge of guarding the Han tomb was very curious, and when they looked east and west, they found that there was an intermittent and imperceptible small crack in the stone wall, so the two of them quarreled over what was inside.
When the village cadres came to check the night, the dispute between the two also aroused his curiosity. So, the three people wanted to pry open to see, it turned out that it was a black hole hole, a square stone cave, touched with their hands, it was a jade piece, the village cadres knew that things were big, so they quickly called to report.
The person in charge of archaeology heard the news on the phone, the first reaction was the jade coat, and quickly asked the local police station to be directly responsible for the security work, and accelerated the progress of excavation, so that The only complete Western Han Silver Jade Coat in China was released.
Pictures of the site at the time of excavation
The mysterious Liu He, who looked through the history books, could not find his person
Judging from the "Liu He" jade seal unearthed in the tomb and a large number of funerary items, Liu He was a nobleman of the Liu clan in the early Western Han Dynasty, but no matter how to look through it, there is no record of Liu He in the vast history books, and it can only be speculated that he is a family member of the Chu royal family of the Western Han Dynasty.
The "Liu He" jade seal was unearthed at the waist of the owner of the tomb inside the silver jade cloth
But this does not diminish people's sense of amazement at his silver jade robe, and perhaps one day in the future, Liu He's life will appear in unexpected ways.