Chapter nine hundred and eighth silver thread jade clothes
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Regarding the use of jade clothing, to be more precise, jade clothing was popular in the middle and late Western Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, strict usage systems were established based on different identities.
Therefore, the princes and kings in the Western Han Dynasty could also use gold-lined jade clothes.
At that time, people believed that jade could make the corpse immortal, so jade clothes were used as burial clothes.
Look at the gold jade clothes that are piled randomly on something, so that it will not be crushed, but maybe it will crush other things?
This gold-lined jade garment looks quite small, but it is not heavy at all. It is even unexpectedly green.
Therefore, Chen Wenzhe accidentally dropped his hand on this thing, which caused an accident!
Seeing a treasure that he longed for, although Chen Wenzhe felt a little dirty, he couldn't help but touch it.
Unexpectedly, with just a slight movement, the golden jade clothes also moved with it!
Chen Wenzhe's heart shrank. Is this the rhythm of a corpse trick?
In a place like this, no matter what it is, as long as it moves by itself, it will be very scary!
This time it was an accident. Before he had time to react, the gold jade garment crashed and rolled onto his feet.
Fortunately, this thing is not heavy, otherwise it would have been enough for him to suffer.
However, the gold jade clothes on top rolled off, revealing the silvery black underneath.
A little shimmering silver, more black. This color of oxidized silver is very familiar to Chen Wenzhe. He had salvaged a lot of silver bars from the bottom of the sea before!
Seeing this kind of thing, Chen Wenzhe felt happy.
With the golden jade garment, it was not just one piece, so he was naturally very satisfied.
However, knowing that there is a silver-lined jade garment and knowing how valuable this thing is, wouldn’t it be more satisfying if I had another one?
Needless to say, the piece of jade clothing in front of you that is pressed down by the jade clothing with gold threads must be a jade clothing with silver threads.
Just now I was worried that the things below would be crushed, but now I am even more worried.
Don't think that the value of jade clothes with silver threads is not as good as that of jade clothes with gold threads.
For a treasure of this level, even if a copper-lined jade garment appears, its value is not bad at all.
It's not even worse than gold and silver jade clothes, because no matter which kind of jade clothes it is, it is very rare.
Things are valuable when they are rare, and when they are few, they are precious.
Therefore, no matter what kind of jade clothes are worn with silk threads, they are all jade clothes and their value is very high.
Carefully take out the jade garment with gold threads on top, revealing the complete jade garment with silver threads below.
This thing is definitely not from the Western Han Dynasty. If it were from the Western Han Dynasty, the great nobles at that time, especially the princes and kings, would definitely wear jade clothes with gold threads.
By the Eastern Han Dynasty, those who were qualified to wear silver-lined jade clothes must be princes or kings or queens.
Looking at the armor-like jade clothes, Chen Wenzhe was really a little emotional.
People who don't understand the silver-lined jade clothing can easily regard it as armor.
It's just that this kind of armor is too delicately made.
From this we can also see how seriously the ancients treated death!
Since ancient times, many ancient emperors have pursued immortality.
During the Han Dynasty, people believed in "serving death as serving life". They felt that even if a person died, his soul was still alive.
In the ancient people's concept, jade is a symbol of a person's temperament and virtue.
With the blessing of jade, people can keep their bodies immortal.
It may seem like nonsense now, but at the time, it was the truth.
Even Li Shizhen, the "Medicine Sage", believed deeply in it. He once justified the name of jade and said: "Jade may not make the living immortal, but it can make the dead immortal."
Therefore, nobles during the Han Dynasty were buried in jade clothes.
There is a clear record in "The Book of the Later Han Dynasty": "When the emperor died, he was buried with beads and wrapped with twelve layers of silk thread. He used jade as a lining, like an armor, and sewn it together, using gold as a thread. Below the waist, he used jade as a belt.
It is one foot long and two and a half inches wide. It is made of a porcelain. It is sewn with golden patterns from the bottom to the foot. All the clothes are gathered together. All the clothes worn by the carriages have been hidden by the imperial guards. If they fall apart, they will be gathered up. The princes and kings are lined up.
When a prince is first named a nobleman, and when a princess dies, he or she is given a seal, a jade pendant and a silver thread; to a great nobleman, the eldest princess is given a copper thread."
Here it is clearly recorded what kind of person, what identity, and what kind of jade clothing should be buried with him.
Chen Wenzhe knew that the Nandu Museum had a jade garment with silver threads hidden in it, and it was one of the 18 museum treasures.
These must be billion-level national treasures. Any one of them can support a museum.
Now Chen Wenzhe is relieved, his museum will be invincible when it opens!
He carefully moved the silver-lined jade clothes and found that the placement of this piece was not stable. Needless to say, there must be something underneath him.
Sure enough, after removing the jade garment with silver threads on top, there was still another jade garment with silver threads underneath.
The one below is slightly smaller, and it looks like a women's jade garment. It is possible that the two pieces are a pair.
This jade garment looks ordinary on the surface, but if you take a closer look, you can find its subtleties.
It is 1.7 meters long, almost the same height as an average adult man.
There are more than 2,600 pieces of jade on the jade garment, with shapes such as strips, triangles, semicircles, and olives.
The jade garment is crocheted from jade pieces and silver wire. A lot of silver wire is used in total. With a little calculation, you know that it must exceed 500 grams, or even reach one kilogram.
It includes fourteen parts: hood, face cover, chest, back, left and right sleeves, left and right gloves, left and right thumbs, left and right trouser legs, and left and right shoes, and the shapes of the jade pieces in each part are different.
For example, the top of the head is made of jade-shaped jade pieces; the rest of the head is made of trapezoidal jade pieces;
The eyes are made of olive-shaped jade pieces, and the nose is made of trapezoidal jade pieces and semi-circular jade pieces;
The lower jaw is made of crescent-shaped jade pieces; the shoulders are made of triangular jade pieces.
In addition, in order to prevent the corpse from losing its energy and blood, it will also block the nine orifices. It strives to be realistic, so the workmanship is fine and the technology is complex.
Fortunately, these two pieces are well preserved. If they were damaged, it would be troublesome to repair them.
Silver-lined jade garments have also been unearthed in China before, but they were all damaged.
For a damaged silver jade garment, the repair work alone will take at least four months.
Even today, with sophisticated craftsmanship and advanced technology, repair work will take a long time.
So it is not difficult to imagine that making such a jade garment in ancient times was very time-consuming and energy-intensive, including requiring a lot of manpower and superb craftsmanship.
Chen Wenzhe was naturally happy to find a jade suit with silver threads, but looking at the jade suit with silver threads that was still a little high, he couldn't help but feel greedy.
Is there another one underneath? Maybe it’s a copper-lined jade garment?
If there were jade clothes with copper threads, then he would have collected all three types of jade clothes, gold, silver, and copper.
Again, regardless of status, as long as it is jade clothing, it is very precious.
Whether it is the jade clothes with gold threads before or the jade clothes with silver threads in front of you, the reason why they are precious is not only that they have not changed after thousands of years, but also because of their rarity.