Activity Preview | The 6th Phrase Experts Interpretation - History and Restoration of Jade Clothes and Coffins

      Introduction:

      Lecturer: Zhao Xiaowei

      Content: History and restoration of jade clothes and jade coffins

      Time: July 13th, 2018 at 10:00 am

      Place: Han Jade Exhibition Hall of Xuzhou Museum

      About the lecturer:

       Zhao Xiaowei, graduated from Northwest University in 2002 with a major in cultural relics protection technology, joined the work in the same year, and is now the director of the Xuzhou Museum Cultural Security Technology Center. He has participated in the restoration of the copper wire jade clothes unearthed from the Han Tomb of Lalishan, the gold wire jade clothes in the collection, and the jade coffin unearthed from the Tomb No. 2 of the Tomb of the King of the Han River in Dayun Mountain.

       Introduction to the content:

      The jade clothing is the conquest used by the Han emperors and senior nobles when they died. In 1968, the first archaeological unearthed intact jade clothes from the tomb of King Wang Sheng and his wife Dou Yi in the Western Han Dynasty in Manchu City, Hebei province made us see the true features of the jade clothes for the first time and solved the mystery of the “jade box”. With the successive excavation of archeological excavations and re-understanding of the previous archeological data, it can be judged that more than 100 pieces of jade clothes of the Han Dynasty were unearthed, and about 20 pieces were completely restored for display, including 4 in Xuzhou.

The jade coffin, that is, the jade coffin inlaid, has no clear records. The earliest found shape is the Douyi jade coffin unearthed from the Han Tomb No. 2 of Mancheng in 1968. At present, more than 10 archeological data of the Han Dynasty jade coffin can be identified. Only one jade coffin of King Chu tomb in Shizi Mountain was restored and displayed all year round.