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August 19, 1968 Han Tomb excavated in Mancheng, Hebei
On this day 57 years ago, on August 19, 1968 (July 26, 1968 lunar calendar), the Han Tomb was excavated in Mancheng, Hebei Province. On August 19, 1968, the Archaeological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Hebei Provincial Cultural Relics Task Force completed the excavation of the Tomb of Liu Sheng and the Tomb of Queen Dou Wan of Zhongshan in the Western Han Dynasty in Mancheng County, Hebei Province. The two tombs are juxtaposed in the mausoleum rock in the southwest of the county, which is a large-scale cliff cave tomb. The total length of Liu Sheng's Tomb is 51.7 meters, and the total length of Dou Luo's Tomb is 49.7 meters. The two tombs are similar in shape and structure. They are divided into six parts: the tomb passage, the corridor, the south ear chamber, the north ear chamber, the middle chamber and the back chamber. The whole tomb is completely simulated. Liu Sheng and Dou Wan both use "golden jade clothes" as funeral Liu Sheng's jade coat is composed of 2,498 jade pieces, with about 1100 grams of gold wire used. Dou Wan's jade coat is composed of 2,160 jade pieces, with about 700 grams of gold wire used. More than 4,200 cultural relics were unearthed in the two tombs, including bronze, iron, gold and silver, jade, lacquer, pottery, silk fabrics, large real chariots and horses, small even chariots and five baht money. Among them, the most exquisite are bronze ware, such as gilt and silver inlaid milk nail pattern pot, gilt and silver pan dragon pattern pot, gold-inlaid silver bird seal text pot, gold-inlaid Boshan furnace, gilt "Changxin Palace" lamp, and turquoise vermilion cup, all of which belong to the essence of bronze craftsmanship in the Han Dynasty. Among the iron ware, there are low-carbon steel, medium-carbon steel, "Hundred Refining Steel" products and solid decarbonized steel tools. In addition, gold and silver medical needles for acupuncture and moxibustion and copper cleavers for timekeeping were also unearthed. Due to the huge scale, complete preservation and clear age of these two tombs, and the first complete "gold-carved jade clothes" were unearthed, which is not only of great value for the study of the funeral system of princes and nobles in the Han Dynasty, but also provides important information for the study of the development of smelting, casting, jade making, lacquer ware, textile and other handicrafts and arts and crafts in the Han Dynasty. Cultural relics unearthed in the Han tomb of golden thread jade clothes


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