China News Service, Taiyuan, June 21 (Reporter Hu Jian) ​​How luxurious was the life of the princes and nobles in the Han Dynasty?

How mighty are the soldiers of Chu Hanxiong?

How did the jade burial system unique to the Han Dynasty evolve and develop?

On the 21st, more than 270 cultural relics from the Han Dynasty came from Xuzhou, Jiangsu, which may be able to answer the above questions.

  On the same day, Shanxi Museum, Xuzhou Museum, Taiyuan Cultural Relics Protection Research Institute, and Taiyuan City Museum jointly held the "Great Han Chu King - Xuzhou Han Dynasty Chu State Cultural Relics Exhibition" was held in Shanxi Museum. The unearthed cultural relics are mainly, supplemented by the unearthed cultural relics from the tombs of the kings in Shanxi and related Han tombs, which interpret the historical features of the vassal states of the Han Dynasty from multiple perspectives.

Pottery figurines in the Xuzhou Museum.

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  Unearthed in 1994, the S-shaped Jade Dragon from the Tomb of King Chu at Shizi Mountain, Xuzhou, is breathtaking in both the selection of jade materials and the carving techniques.

"Its jade is crystal clear, and it adopts the techniques of yin line carving, openwork and relief carving. It can be said to be ingenious and meticulously crafted." Qiu Wenhua, deputy director of the Collection Department of Xuzhou Museum, said.

The S-shaped jade dragon unearthed in the tomb of the King of Chu in Shizishan, Xuzhou in 1994.

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  Qiu Wenhua introduced that the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, and after Liu Bang established the Western Han Empire, he learned from the decline of the Qin Dynasty and enshrined the clans and heroes.

In the early Han Dynasty, the system of feudal lords and kings and their positions were based on the system of the central government of the empire.

Many seals, seals and other materials unearthed from the tomb of the King of Chu in the Western Han Dynasty in Xuzhou reflect the official system and functions of the feudal state, from which we can briefly glimpse the political system of the Western Han state of Chu, and truly reproduce the official system and the operation of power in the Han Dynasty.

A pottery dancing figurine in the Western Han Dynasty.

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  The Han Dynasty was the most prosperous period of funeral jade in China, and the use of jade clothes for burial was unprecedented, which became a prominent feature of the Han Dynasty funeral system.

Among the exhibits in this exhibition, a golden thread jade garment is particularly precious. It consists of 2,537 pieces of jade connected with gold threads. It consists of more than ten parts such as the hood, front chest, back, left and right sleeves, left and right trousers, and shoe covers.

  According to Qiu Wenhua, jade clothes are the burial utensils worn by emperors and high-ranking nobles in the Han Dynasty after their deaths.

According to "Book of Etiquette of the Later Han Dynasty", the emperors of the Han Dynasty used golden thread jade clothes, the princes, princes, nobles and princesses used silver thread jade clothes, and the great nobles and long princesses used copper thread jade clothes.

The golden thread jade clothes of the Han Dynasty.

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  This exhibition also displays the cultural relics of the Han Dynasty unearthed in Shanxi. Liang Fang, a staff member of the Exhibition Department of Shanxi Museum, introduced that by comparing the cultural relics of the Han Dynasty in the same period and in different regions, you can feel the similarities and differences between the cultures of the two places, and you can understand the culture of the Han Dynasty more comprehensively. the whole picture.

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