Section 68 Golden Jade Clothes

We have only come back to our senses now, in fact, the main burial chamber we are in now should be the back room, the whole burial chamber is composed of six parts: the tomb road, the Yongdao, the south ear room, the north ear room, the middle room and the back room. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoIf we look down on the whole ancient burial chamber from the ground, it is really like an "ancient" word. Because before the Qin and Han dynasties, the shape of the tomb generally adopted the mode of imitating the above-ground buildings. The purpose of this design is to symbolically move everything in life into the ground, that is, death is like life.

We no longer hesitated, continued to go inside, one by one to open the circle of coffins inside, did not expect that the moment we opened the coffin, let each of us be ecstatic, happy, especially Xiao Fei, happy to dance with joy, all screamed loudly, that string of terrible laughter in the main burial chamber reverberation. It turned out that the innermost coffins were no longer a well-preserved, lifelike, and specially soaked corpse, but seven or eight corpses wrapped in exquisitely shaped and beautiful golden jade clothes, and the clothes were slightly different according to men and women. Because the kings and nobles of the Han Dynasty not only carried the jewels in their mouths after their deaths, but also used jade pieces and gold wires to connect the funeral clothes from head to foot, which is often called the golden jade clothes, which are also called golden jade in the history books.

In particular, the owner of the tomb in the middle finally half-revealed his true face of Lushan, he was lying peacefully and calmly in the middle of the coffin, the golden jade clothes on his body were particularly exquisite, different, he was lying peacefully in the afterlife world that he had carefully built, and his soul was patrolling his underground world in the tomb.

Hu Jiaojiao cautiously asked, "Will there be poison on this coffin?"

Quicksand said disapprehantly: "How come, this place is so hidden, there are already many organs outside, and it is already nine deaths to enter here, and this coffin is naturally placed to protect their bodies, so that they can return smoothly one day, otherwise they themselves have been poisoned by themselves, how can they be reborn?" But Hu Jiaojiao still couldn't rest assured, and re-verified the identity of those coffins, and found that what Quicksand said was true.

Wang Gongzi said unhurriedly: "The golden jade clothes are also called jade boxes, jade charges, which are the funeral clothes worn by the emperors and high-ranking nobles of the Han Dynasty when they died, and the appearance is the same as the shape of the human body, so it took a long time, this is actually the ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, which is really eye-opening, it is really incredible." ”

I said to Xiao Fei with a hippie smile: "Look, just now you were still proud, swearing that it was the coffin of the Warring States, and now you finally found out that it was wrong, I didn't expect that there was a golden jade dress of the Han Dynasty, it was really worth the trip." ”

The seven or eight corpses in the middle are all wearing beautiful golden jade clothes, which is really rare in the world, Xiao Fei and I are dumbfounded, it is so thrilling and exciting, the complete set of jade clothes shines under the glow of the swaying and colorful dissolved candlelight, shining, like an indestructible armor in general, layer upon layer to protect the corpse inside, and the human body is about the same size, the jade clothes are complicated to make, exquisite workmanship, ingenious workmanship, exquisite design, meticulous workmanship, seamless fitting, is a rare artistic treasure in the world。 It is composed of six parts: hood, upper body, sleeves, gloves, trousers and shoes, all of which are made up of neat and uniform jade pieces that are as warm as water, covered with gold and hanging jade, and all of them are top-quality jade, which are composed of white jade and green jade from Hetian, Xinjiang, warm and crystalline, and there are about 45,000 large and small jade pieces according to the preliminary visual inspection, and the corners of the jade pieces are perforated, and they are braided with gold wires made of glittering precious gold, so they are called golden jade clothes. Its hands are made into fists, a jade object on the left and right, and its feet are shoe-shaped. There are also jade bibs, as well as rice and wear, there are several agate beads under the neck, and jade belt hooks are out of the waist.

Take a closer look, the jade clothes have jade eye covers, nasal plugs on the head, and genital cover boxes and ** plugs on the lower abdomen. The perimeter is edged with red fabric, and the trousers are edged with iron bars to make them reinforced. The face is covered with elaborate carved eyes, nose, and mouth shapes, with a broad chest and back, and bulging buttocks and abdomen, which completely resemble the shape of a human body. In particular, the jade cicada that was about to fly and lifelike in the mouth of the corpse was even more vivid, ready to come out, and lifelike. Because the ancients believed that the cicada only drank dew and did not eat, it was a kind of pure and clean insect. After death, the soul leaves the corpse, just like when the cicada metamorphoses out of its shell, the ancients used the cicada as a metaphor for temporary death, hoping that the deceased can be resurrected and reborn. At that time, people were very superstitious that jade could keep the bones immortal and the cold corpse not rotten, and they used jade as a noble ritual and a symbol of status.

Xiao Fei whispered to me: "In fact, in modern society, until we left, a total of more than 20 pieces of jade clothes were found in the country, which is really a rare treasure, rare to see, and we carefully looked at the fineness of these clothes, which are even better than the two golden jade clothes unearthed from the tomb of Liu Sheng, King Jing of Zhongshan and his wife Dou Juan in modern society, and they are also very old, and the workmanship is more exquisite." ”

I thought to myself: "Oh my God, how much is this worth of RMB, no, how much silver should it be on the rails of a train, or how much glittering gold?"

Hu Jiaojiao was puzzled and said, "This is really strange, why did the golden jade clothes only exist in the Han Dynasty, and now everyone is not popular?"

Wang Gongzi continued to say eruditely: "The ancient emperors looked for elixirs, drank nectar, alchemy pills, etc., all in order to cultivate immortals and escape the Tao and live forever, so this desire to survive was also pinned on the shroud after death, which led to the unique jade clothes of the Han Dynasty. The people of the Han Dynasty believed that jade was the elite of the mountains, and the gold and jade were placed in the nine orifices of people, and the essence of the person would not leak out, so that the bones would not rot, and the popularity would last forever, and the regeneration could be sought in the next life, so the jade used for funerals occupied an important position in the Han jade. The origin of jade clothes can be traced back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty when the jade curtain and jade clothes were embellished, and Cao Pi issued an edict to ban jade clothes in the Three Kingdoms, which was popular for a total of 400 years. The golden jade clothes are the highest standard funeral clothes in the Han Dynasty, which roughly appeared in the Wenjing period of the Western Han Dynasty. Other nobles used silver and copper wire to embellish the clothes, which were called silver jade clothes and copper jade clothes. ”

Quicksand was amazed and said, "I think the production of such a jade robe is quite complicated!"

Wang Gongzi gushed endlessly, as a few family treasures said: "What Brother Sha said is that the production of jade clothes is a very complicated process, and the jade materials used have to go through complex procedures such as cutting, sawing blades, polishing and drilling. Therefore, the size and shape of each jade piece must be carefully juiced and meticulously processed. Even some of the saws on the jade pieces are only 0.3 mm, and the diameter of the drill hole is only 1 mm, which is very small, and its process is surprisingly difficult and the degree of precision is surprising. It is estimated that the Han Dynasty required more than ten years of effort to make a jade garment, and it took ten years to sharpen a sword. The emperor of the Han Dynasty used those exquisite jade clothes as funeral clothes, which can be described as painstaking. However, the result backfired, because the price of the golden jade clothes was expensive, it often attracted more tomb robbers, so that the tombs of the emperors of the Han Dynasty were all excavated. The diggers took out the golden jade clothes and burned them, and the bones were reduced to ashes. In view of this, in 222 AD, Emperor Cao Pi of Wei ordered a ban on the use of jade clothes, and since then jade clothes have disappeared from history. ”

Quicksand said curiously: "But such a complex process, how the ancients used it handily and skillfully, it really amazed us descendants." You see, these clothes consume countless pieces of jade and gold threads. The jade pieces are neatly arranged after the garment, the seams are tight, the surface is smooth, and the colors are coordinated, which is really amazing, which shows the exquisite skills of the jade master and the luxurious life of those high-ranking officials and nobles at that time. ”