Hunan Provincial Museumis one of Changsha’s high points, dedicated solely, to the Han-era tomb of Xin Zui, the Marques of Dai. Xin Zui died around 160 BC, and her subterranean tomb - roughly contemporary with similar finds at Jingzhou (see p.544) and Wuhan (see p.530) - was one of three all!- covered in 1972 during construction work at Mawangdui, about 4km northeast (the others contained her husband and son).Thanks to damp-pool rammed walls of clay and charcoal, a triple wooden sarcophagus, and wrappings of linen and silk, the Marques’ body was so well preserved that modern pathologists were able to establish that when she died, aged 50, she suffered from tuberculosis, gall stones, arteriosclerosis and bilharzias. The sar. cophaguses are in a side hall, while access to the mummy (after sealing you dusty shoes in plastic bags) is through a basement display of embroideries lacquered bowls and coffins, musical instruments, wooden tomb figures and other funerary offerings. Taoist texts written on silk were also found in tit tomb, and one piece illustrating qigong postures is on display. Xin Zui her. Self lies in a fluid-filled tank below several inches of Perspex, a gruesome white doll decently covered from chin to thigh, with her internal organs dies played in jars.

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