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Image:JadeBurialSuit.JPG|thumb|Jade burial suit at the Museum of Chinese History, Beijing Of the jade suits that have been found, the pieces of jade are mostly square in shape and threaded together with gold wire; a gold mask covers the face. According to the Book of Later Han, the type of wire used was dependent on the station of the person buried. The jade burial suits of emperors used gold thread; princes, princesses, dukes, and marquises, silver thread; sons of daughters of those given silver thread, copper thread; and lesser aristocrats, silk thread, with all others being forbidden to be buried in jade burial suits. Composed entirely of jade and gold, a jade burial suit was of course extremely expensive to create, and only wealthy aristocrats could afford to be buried in them. For many years, many archaeologists believed that jade burial suits did not really exist and were only myths or legends. The discovery in 1968 of two complete jade suits in the tombs of Liu Sheng and Dou Wan in Man-ch'eng, Hebei, finally proved their existence. The jade suits of Liu Sheng and Dou Wan consisted of 2498 plates of solid jade connected with two and a half pounds of gold wires. In 1973, a jade burial suit belonging to Prince Huai of Han|Huai of the Western Han Dynasty was discovered in Dingxian, Hebei. It consisted of 1,203 pieces of jade and 2,580 grams of gold thread http://www.china.org.cn/e-gudai/4.htm. In 1983, a jade suit was found in the tomb of Zhao Mei, the second king of Southern Yue, in Guangzhou http://gdnet.gd.cei.gov.cn/gdnnet/todaygd/travel/4_html_e.htm. 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. Category:Archaeology of deathCategory:Chinese art
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