The golden jade garment is the burial dress worn by the emperors and princes of the Han Dynasty after their deaths, which belongs to the highest specifications of the Han Dynasty burial clothes, made of gold wire wearing jade pieces, the appearance is the same as the shape of the human body, and its structure is very similar to the armor worn by ancient soldiers, also known as jade boxes and jade garnets.
Its production process is very delicate, the jade is surrounded by small holes, convenient gold wire woven garments, the head is composed of a face cover and a mask, but not a rigid piece, but carved out of the eyes, nose and mouth of the image, similar to a mask. The top, hand, front, back, pant legs, and feet are all separate, absolutely high-end, and carefully crafted according to the main body of the tomb.
Miraculously, the joints of the golden jade coat can be moved, the hands and feet can be bent freely, and the shoulders can also move. Seeing this, some friends may wonder, isn't the golden jade robe for the dead? What is the use of making an event?
Speaking of which, it is necessary to find out why these big people wear golden jade clothes.
Jade, which has been a valuable item since ancient times, represents a lofty status and also symbolizes the good character of a gentleman. During the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, there were jade-embellished masks and jade-embellished clothes, which were favored by princes and nobles.
The Han Dynasty people especially revered jade, believing that jade was the "elite of the mountains", and that the nine tricks of jade plugs could make the popularity last forever, the corpse was not decayed, and it could be reborn in the next life. Therefore, the noble men and women of the Han Dynasty used to accompany the burial of many jade objects when they were buried.
As emperors or princes, the simple jade plugs, jade curtains and clothes can no longer meet their psychological needs, nor can they show their extraordinary identity. I don't know which genius designed such a strange thing as the golden jade robe, and then became the exclusive property of the royal family.
That is to say, after death, these people wear golden jade robes, hoping to be reborn in the world through jade and enjoy wealth again, which is a "beautiful" fantasy. That being the case, of course, we must consider the question of walking after the resurrection. Fortunately, this fantasy has never come true, otherwise it would have scared several people to death.
Through the above description, it can be seen that the focus is on jade and not on gold wire, so other nobles who are not qualified to use golden jade clothes have a clever move, retreat to the second place, and use silver wire and copper wire to fabricate jade pieces, called silver wisp jade clothes, copper wisp jade clothes, and the process is similar to that of golden jade clothes. Dressed and lying in the coffin, the heart is probably beautiful. There is no genuine version, and it is good to have high imitation.
There are several pieces of golden jade robes that have been unearthed, the most famous of which are those of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, and his wife Dou Xuan. Liu Sheng was the son of Liu Qi, the Emperor Jing of Han, and the half-brother of Emperor Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, and he had a descendant who believed everyone had heard of it, who? Liu Bei, the founding emperor of the Shu Han Dynasty.
In May 1968, on Lingshan Mountain, 1.5 kilometers southwest of Mancheng County, Hebei Province, a top-secret project was under construction, and Liu Sheng's mausoleum was accidentally exploded, from which many precious cultural relics were excavated.
It is estimated that Liu Sheng is relatively obese, his jade coat is very large, 1.72 meters long, composed of 2498 pieces of jade, the gold wire used for weaving weighs about 1100 grams, divided into five parts: head, top, pants, gloves, and feet, and the trouser barrel is wrapped with iron bars to make it reinforced.
Dou Xuan's piece is relatively small, sharing 2160 pieces of jade and 700 grams of gold wire, perhaps out of the avoidance of female body shape, without highlighting the shape of the waist and abdomen. Moreover, what connects the chest of the jade robe is not gold wire, but silk fabric.
The golden jade robe excavated from the tomb of King Chu of Jiangsu is the best jade, the largest number of jade pieces and the most refined craftsmanship among the jade clothes found so far, with a length of 174 cm and a width of 68 cm, and the total number of jade pieces is 4248 pieces, all of which are warm and crystalline Xinjiang Hetian white jade, green jade, gold wire weighs 1576 grams, very luxurious.
The most shabby golden jade coats are the parts excavated from the tomb of Liu Yao in Linyi, only foot covers, gloves and hoods, no limbs and upper body, perhaps Liu Defect's status is not enough or the fiefdom is not rich.
Dressed in such a delicate and expensive jade robe for burial, the tomb owner could not be said to be indifferent to the things behind him. However, contrary to wishes, it is precisely because the price of the golden jade cloth is expensive, which attracts frequent visits by tomb robbers, and the tomb owner cannot be peaceful after his death.
According to the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms. The Benji of Emperor Wen of Wei records that "all the tombs of the Han clan were excavated, and even burned jade boxes and golden wisps, and the skeletons were exhausted." "It is ironic that the members of the royal family want to protect their bodies with golden jade clothes, but they end up not protecting their bodies."
Later, emperor Cao Pi of Wei issued an edict banning it, and the golden jade robe was popular for about four hundred years, and then became a legend. One of the reasons for the ban is that it is difficult to produce, requires a lot of manpower and financial resources, and is too extravagant; the second reason is that for everyone's sake, wearing a golden jade robe to get reborn is just an imagination, but the possibility of attracting tomb robbers is very large.
But there is a strange phenomenon here, when tomb robbers find golden jade clothes, they often only smoke gold silk and do not take jade clothes.
Why? Because if the items stolen from the tomb want to be cashed out, they have to be sold. Jade is too valuable, not ordinary people can use, it is not easy to get rid of the hand, and the shape of the jade piece on the golden jade coat is too eye-catching, and it is easy for the government to find clues to solve the case when it circulates to the market, which is very likely to bring disaster to the tomb robbers. The gold wire did not have this trouble, melted away and changed shape, and God knows where it came from.
Therefore, the clever and cautious tomb robber would rather give up the more valuable jade clothes and only take the gold wire that is easy to sell. But the reason is such a truth, in fact, most of the people who dare to be tomb robbers are people who are bold and dare to take risks, and their hearts are horizontal, and they take the jade clothes.