No matter how nice the name of the golden jade coat sounds, it cannot be ignored that it is something that is used by the dead.
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Golden jade coat
"To put it simply, it's a small box of corpses.
This little box is a little simpler, referring to the cool mat we use now, but "
"It's a high-grade container made of jade pieces and gold thread.
In a simple word"
"That is graceful and luxurious, if nothing else, let's say that the most famous Zhongshan Jing King Liu Sheng and his wife, Liu Sheng's golden jade clothes used 2498 pieces of jade, and the gold wire used 1.1kg.
His wife Dou Xuan used 2160 pieces of jade, and the gold wire used about 0.7kg, and the reason why Dou Xuan used less materials than Liu Sheng was largely because her body size was smaller than Liu Sheng, and it was also in line with the social background of male superiority and female inferiority.
But even so, the two sets of golden jade coats also used more than 4600 pieces of jade, as well as 1.8kg of gold wire,
Raw materials are already worth tens of millions, and if you count the processing fee and processing technology, the value of these two golden jade coats is simply an astronomical number.
Then the question is, why did the ancients spend so much money to make golden jade clothes.
Why did the ancients make golden jade clothes
This has to start from the origin of the ancient funerary culture. The ancients were initially in awe of death, believing that the death of man was the end of life, so they feared death.
But later, with the progress of mankind and the development of civilization, they realized that this was a hurdle that no one could escape, so they slowly began to accept death.
It was even once believed that after death, people will exist in another form, and death does not represent the end, but represents the beginning of another form.
Slowly, the wind of thick burial began to prevail, and people paid more and more attention to the protection of the remains.
Think about it, too, if the soul still exists, what a painful thing it would be to watch the flesh rot.
Therefore, in order to let the dead souls not watch the outflow of yellow soup with their own eyes, the ancients thought of disposing of the corpse by means of embalming, and strived to make the corpse not decay and moth.
"Baopuzi": "The golden jade is in the Nine Tricks, and the dead are immortal."
In the cognition of the ancients, stuffing jade into the Nine Tips to prevent the leakage of essence can keep the dead from rotting. Rationally speaking, if it is not embalmed, this sentence is just listening.
The ancients used jade to plug the nine tips, and the antiseptic was actually based on the characteristics of mercury antiseptic and mercury solidifying in contact with jade.
Therefore, after the prince's body was soaked with mercury, in order to avoid the liquid in his body from flowing out, he used jade to plug the Nine Tips.
Later, the use of jade pieces to make golden jade clothes was also for this consideration, in order to better prevent corrosion.
What is the story behind the tomb robbers who throw away the jade?
Such luxurious objects as "golden jade clothes" only exist in the Han Dynasty, and the golden jade clothes currently unearthed are basically cultural relics of the Han Dynasty period.
In addition to the tomb of Liu Sheng in the Han Dynasty, the golden jade clothes excavated from the tomb of King Chu of Xuzhou Lion Mountain ranked first in the country.
All the jade materials are mostly the best Hetian jade, and the detail treatment of the jade pieces is also top-notch.
Even so, the tomb robbers still couldn't look at these jade pieces. Every time they excavated a tomb, but whenever they found a golden jade garment, basically the jade pieces would be left in the tomb by the stolen tomb thieves, and the gold wire would be taken away by the stolen tomb thieves.
Logically, the value of jade pieces is much greater than the value of gold wire, so why would a tomb robber do this? What's the story behind that?
I've summed it up for nothing more than the following reasons:
First: the exclusive props of the princes and nobles, if they are not good, they will overturn;
In ancient times, it was necessary to pay attention to the order of dignity and inferiority, but everything that could be worn"
"He who dresses must be a prince and a nobleman."
The exclusive props of the princes and nobles have uniqueness and high recognition, and if the tomb robbers take out the whole set to sell, they will be arrested if they are not careful. This kind of clothing is heavy and heavy, and once it is targeted, it is basically cold.
Tomb robbers risk their lives, is not it just to get some money, if the money is not obtained, the life is lost, then it is not worth the loss.
Second: the value of a single piece of jade is too low to be sold in bulk;
As mentioned above, the entire golden jade robe is easy to identify, and it is not easy to carry and sell, and tomb robbers are very easy to find and arrest.
So some people asked, is it not fragrant to sell jade pieces? In fact, rational analysis, although the jade piece is the best Hetian jade, but a thin piece, the top is also perforated, it is difficult to be processed into other things, therefore, the risk of selling is large, the value is low, the cost performance is too low, not suitable for bulk sale.
Third: gold, no matter which dynasty it was in, was hard currency, and it was extremely easy to be processed into other shapes, and it could be washed white in the blink of an eye.
Imagine that there are so many jade treasures in the tomb, who has nothing to worry about the jade fragments scattered on the ground?
postscript
Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, tomb robbers are quite hateful, they destroyed a lot of cultural relics. But judging from the choice of tomb robbers to deal with the golden jade clothes, they really used their brains and chose the most advantageous way.
They draw silk and throw away the jade pieces, more still thinking about the issue of shipment and risk.
Secondly, even if the tomb robber accidentally takes the golden jade robe out of the grave, how can he sell it?
A fresh and hot golden jade coat, do you want to try it? I believe that if it is sold like this, it can only be noon, because sooner or later there will be an accident...