Plain unlined gauze gown

Plain unlined gauze gown

The clothes favored by Xin Zhui, marquise of Dai, were stored in a bamboo box in the western compartment of the outer coffin in Tomb No. 1. Among the clothes, there are two plain unlined gauze gowns, which are described as “thin as a cicada wing” and as “light as smoke”. The raw material for making this gown is the plain unlined gauze with square holes and level patterns. According to the measurement, the gauze is about 2.6 square meters. If the weight of the collars, cuffs and Yi Jin (the one or two pieces making up the front of a Chinese jacket) made of tough silk is excluded, the gown is then only about 20g. The average weight of each square meter is only 12-13g.