The year 2024 marks the 18th year of Yang's work in the silk and textile conservation field. Aside from the Mawangdui site, Yang is an expert regularly invited by historical sites like the Palace ...

Beijing, China / Storyteller / Jul 06, 2025 / With her short hair and bubbly personality, Yang Jiyuan is a bit of a pleasant mystery. She admittedly loves cats and toys packed in ...

The lacquerware unearthed from Mawangdui totals 1,017 pieces, 869 of which are intact. The textiles unearthed — mainly silk and hemp — total 24,490 pieces, including 212 intact pieces.

Woven silk textile from Tomb No. 1 at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan province, China, dated to the Western Han Era, 2nd century BCE.

A piece of lacquerware unearthed from the Mawangdui tombs in Changsha, Hunan province. CHINA DAILY Of the 1,017 lacquerware pieces recovered, 869 are still intact. Of the textiles — mainly silk ...

The three Han Dynasty tombs excavated in 1972 at Mawangdui in Hunan’s Changsha was an extremely significant archaeological discovery. Tomb no. 1, in particular, found in a state of complete ...