Jade burial suit

Considering the vast size of the country, and the relatively slow means of disseminating information, it is not surprising that the materials and techniques used in a jade burial suit occasionally differed from the official guidelines.

[2] The discovery in 1968 of two complete jade suits in the tombs of Liu Sheng and Dou Wan in Mancheng, Hebei, finally proved their existence.

It is now believed that jade burial suits were actually relatively common among the wealthiest aristocrats of the Han dynasty, but that over the years most have been lost due to the activities of grave robbers.

[2] Tombs from the Spring and Autumn period, belonging to the dukes of the Jin state in Quwo, were discovered in which the body was covered with small jade pieces once interwoven with silk.

In 1973, a jade burial suit belonging to Prince Huai of the Western Han dynasty was discovered in Dingxian, Hebei.

[7] In 1991, a jade burial suit was excavated from a group of monumental tombs of the King of Chu, Liu Wu, in Xuzhou.

Jade burial suit of Liu Sui, Prince of Liang, of Western Han, made with 2,008 pieces of jade
Jade burial suit at the Museum of the Mausoleum of the Nanyue King , in Guangzhou
Jade shroud for King of Zhongshan, Liu Xiu (d. 57 BCE), in the National Museum of China , Beijing , China .
Excavation of the Jade Burial Suits taken from the Hebei Museum in Shijiazhuang , Hebei , China .