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These are the artifacts unearthed at Mawangdui

"Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb T-shaped Painting" is a silk color painting created by an anon. in the Western Han Dynasty, excavated in 1972 in Changsha Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb, and is now in the collection of Hunan Provincial Museum.

These are the artifacts unearthed at Mawangdui

Xin Chai (217-168 BC), wife of Li Cang, the chancellor of the State of Changsha, and her son Li Feng. Xin Chai was the owner of the 1972 Mawangdui Han Tomb No. 1 in Changsha.

Xin Chai's tomb is located in Mawangdui, next to the Liuyang River in the eastern suburbs of Changsha. Xin chai body, the body is complete, the whole body is moist, the skin is complete, the hair is still there, the fingers and toes are clear, the muscles are still elastic, and some joints can be moved, making it the best preserved wet corpse in the world.

In 2019, some scholars believed that the original name of Xin Chai was "avoidance", and "Xin Chai" may be a misreading

These are the artifacts unearthed at Mawangdui

The Western Han Dynasty Black Ground Painted Coffin is a piece of Western Han lacquerware, and within the Western Han Dynasty Black Lacquer Coffin, it is the second layer of the wooden coffin of the Western Han Dynasty Mawangdui Tomb No. 1. It was excavated in 1972 from the Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb in Changsha and is now in the Hunan Provincial Museum.

These are the artifacts unearthed at Mawangdui

Western Han Dynasty Straight Jacket Su Yarn Tunic ("襌" pronounced dān), a national first-class cultural relic, excavated in 1972 in Changsha, Hunan Province, Mawangdui No. 1 Han Tomb, is now in the Hunan Provincial Museum.

This plain gauze tunic is a crossed collar, right side, straight hem, similar to the deep coat connected to the upper and lower clothes popular in the Han Dynasty, and the cuffs are wider. In addition to the collar and cuff edges decorated with brocade, the whole dress is made of plain yarn, no lining, no color, so the unearthed book is called a plain yarn cuff. It is made of fine silk weaving, made of square hole plain weave interwoven with single warp single weft silk, the silk strand is extremely fine, light and exquisite, the eyelets are uniform and clear, and the overall weight is only 49 grams, which can be described as light as smoke and as thin as a cicada wing.

These are the artifacts unearthed at Mawangdui

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