Because the yellow intestine problem is rarely mentioned, many people will feel confused when they see the word yellow intestine problem. In fact, the yellow intestine inscription is not a gold product, but a noble name for funerary products made of wood. The forest coverage rate in ancient times was much higher than now, and wood was not a rare item in ancient times, so why did the yellow intestine inscription surpass the golden jade coat in terms of honor? There are three main reasons why the yellow intestine question can surpass the golden jade coat in terms of specifications: the first reason is that the yellow intestine question is suitable for the people to be distinguished, the second reason is that the yellow intestine question consumes a large number of materials, and the third reason is that the yellow intestine problem costs a huge amount of engineering.
The users of the yellow intestine questions are all royal nobles, and ordinary people cannot use the yellow intestine questions at all, nor do they have the financial resources to use the yellow intestine questions. According to the historical records of the Han Dynasty, the yellow intestine inscription belonged to the emperor's exclusive funerary product, and after the emperor's coffin was placed, people used cypress wood to form a wall to surround the emperor's coffin. The yellow heart of the cypress is facing the emperor's coffin, hence the name Yellow Intestine. Of course, the yellow intestine inscription is not only used by the emperor's family, and the emperor will also use the yellow intestine inscription as a reward to the princes and ministers while using the yellow intestine inscription himself. Because the golden jade coat and the yellow intestine inscription are of equal status, those who can be rewarded by the yellow intestine inscription are also qualified to use the golden jade cloth.
The wood consumed by the yellow intestine is all the best cypress wood, the growth cycle of cypress wood is relatively long, the price is much higher than that of ordinary wood, and ordinary people in the Han Dynasty simply do not have the financial resources to use cypress wood products. The emperor used tens of thousands of cypresses for a funeral, and these are some of the best cypress wood, although jade and gold were equally honorable in the Han Dynasty, but compared to tens of thousands of cypresses, the cost of golden jade clothing is still much lower. In fact, the people who used the yellow intestine inscription in the Han Dynasty were basically emperors and princes, after all, ordinary people did not have the financial resources to buy so many cypresses.
Yellow intestine inscription is not simply to put cypress wood in the burial chamber, because the form of cypress wood is different, people need to first choose some suitable wood for yellow intestine problems in a large number of woods. However, these woods are processed in a complex way, and after the wood is polished and smoothed, the wood is placed near the emperor's coffin according to certain rules. Because of the large amount of wood, the manpower and material resources required to manufacture a set of yellow intestine inscriptions are very huge, often before the completion of the construction of the mausoleum, people began to process and make cypress wood for yellow intestine inscriptions, until the time of the emperor's burial, the yellow intestine inscription was completely completed.
The reason why the emperor of the Han Dynasty used the yellow intestine inscription to surround the coffin was mainly because the price of cypress wood was expensive, and the color was biased towards the noble yellow, which was the color that the emperor liked. In addition, during the Han Dynasty, the emperors superstitiously believed in immortality and incorruptibility of corpses, so they wanted to use golden jade clothes and yellow intestine inscriptions to maintain the original state of the corpses, so that they could be revived one day. Of course, neither the golden jade clothes nor the yellow intestines have the effect of keeping the corpse from decaying.
Because the nobles of the Han Dynasty liked thick burials, the gold and silver treasures in the tomb were innumerable, so after the fall of the Han Dynasty, many people started the idea of han tombs, and the Han tombs were already ten rooms and nine empty after being excavated on several large scales. And the wood itself belongs to perishable items, from the Han Dynasty to the present has experienced more than a thousand years of time, so now unearthed yellow intestine inscriptions, archaeologists found that most of them have been turned into a mess, which is also the main reason why the yellow intestine inscription is not as famous as the golden jade coat.