From the Vault: Jade Immortality

Stuff To Blow Your Mind

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Social Sciences, Natural Sciences, Life Sciences, Science

4.4 • 5.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Chinese aristocracy of the Western Han Dynasty embarked on their journey into the afterlife within garments of stone -- luxurious suits of jade armor entailing thousands of individual plates sewn together with gold, silver or silk. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert Lamb and Christian Sager explore this ancient funeral custom and both the scientific and superstitious qualities of jade. (Originally published May 9, 2017)

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1:38.3	Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind. My name is Robert Lam.
1:41.3	And I'm Joe McCormick and it is Saturday time to go into the vault for a classic episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind.
1:46.9	I think this is one that you and Christian did back in 2017, right?
1:51.0	Yeah, this one is about Jade immortality, basically about the use of Jade and beliefs about Jade from Chinese history, particularly how it factors into the Jade armor that was used in some of these burial practices.
2:08.6	I believe we touched on this a little bit in a later episode that you and I did.
2:12.8	Oh, the one about the tomb of Chi Chi Huang.
2:15.2	Yeah, we at least touched on it as part of the history of Chinese funeral traditions.
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