Four Common Questions about Jade Suit
For it is a symbol of the royal, there are very high standards of the workmanship for the suit-making. The governors of the Han Dynasty set a special organization named ¡°Dong yuan¡± which specialized in the suit-making. The coat of making one medium sized Jade Suit is higher than the total value of 100 middle-class families¡¯ possessions. Till the Three Kingdoms Period, one of the kings named Caopi (the son of Caocao) set up new rules of the funeral that there would be no more jade suit for funerals.
Does it only appear in China?
The answer is yes. There was a report that 1000 mummies were found wearing the Gold Wire Jade Suits, but the mummies were just gold-painted, so thoes were not the real Gold Wire Jade Suits. China is the only country that has the technique of jade sculpturing, and the Han Dynasty is the prevailing period of jade sculpturing. The ex-librarian of Hunan Museum Xiong Chuanxin said that there were carvings on the jade pieces.
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