CA8 - Chinese, Korean, & Japanese Art

pre historia on Instagram: "She died more than 2,000 years ago but her body never did. Lady Dai, also known as Xin Zhui, was a Han Dynasty noblewoman whose tomb was opened in 1971 in China. What shocked the world wasn’t gold or jewels it was her body. Her skin was soft, joints still moved, and even blood was found in her veins. Wrapped in four coffins, sealed with charcoal and clay, she survived time itself. Today, she rests inside China’s Hunan Museum, protected from the air that decay couldn’t