. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. Fig. 34. Bronze Scales of Armor of Han Period (half of actual size). an armor is most happy. As these wooden slips possessed regular forms, we are allowed to infer that also the iron plates in the armor of the Han were gradually adapted to the same uniform standard. In the age of the T'ang (618-906) iron plate armor presents itself as an accomplished fact, and was made with a technical perfection which must have been preceded by centuries of diligent and intelligent practice (see Chapter V). The existenc
. Chinese clay figures. Sculpture -- China; Arms and armor, Chinese; China -- Antiquities. Fig. 34. Bronze Scales of Armor of Han Period (half of actual size). an armor is most happy. As these wooden slips possessed regular forms, we are allowed to infer that also the iron plates in the armor of the Han were gradually adapted to the same uniform standard. In the age of the T'ang (618-906) iron plate armor presents itself as an accomplished fact, and was made with a technical perfection which must have been preceded by centuries of diligent and intelligent practice (see Chapter V). The existence of protective lammas of rectangular shape under the Han may be inferred also from another matter peculiar to that In the biography of Ho Kuang, who died in 68, the great "king- maker" of the Han dynasty, as Mayers calls him, mention is made of "jade clothes" (yii i). Yen Shi-ku (579-645), the famous commentator of the Han Annals, explains this term as denoting a coat of the form of an armor (kxai), consisting of jade slabs joined together by means of gold threads; these jade slabs were shaped into regular plates (cha), one foot long and two inches and a half wide; they formed a perfect enclosure, and reached down to the feet. Another style of this garment, compared likewise with armor by Yen Shi-ku, was composed of strung pearls or 1 The following information is drawn from the Han tsien (No. 1648) of Kua Ts'ang- lin of the Sung; the edition before me is by Wu Ki-ngan of the Ming, and was pub- lished in 1600. This is a most valuable work for the study of Han culture, being ar- ranged in the form of a glossary of subject-matters (corresponding to our archaeologi- cal dictionaries) extracted from the Han Annals together with the commentaries; it allows us to ascertain at a glance what objects of culture existed under the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability
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