First, the workmanship is fine and complicated.
Golden coat: 60 cm long, 5 1 cm wide and 39 cm shoulder width; The first two pieces, each 27.5 cm long and 25.5 cm wide, have an upper arc neck of 9 cm; Two short sleeves with a length of 2 1 cm and a width of 15 cm were sewn and welded with gold thread. No collar, only half-moon arc collar, width 18 cm. The half-moon arc collar, cuffs, front lapel edge and hem of clothes have narrow or wide bronzing edges. The neckline and cuffs are embedded with narrow edges with a width of 0.5 cm; The front lapel and hem of the clothes are inlaid with 5-3 cm wide bronzing. Gold beads are carved on both sides of the lapel edge, and lotus patterns are carved in the middle. Only some features are introduced here, and other features, such as the daily phoenix and the lotus pattern with tangled branches, will not be described in detail.
Second, historical value and process materials.
The whole dress is made of gold thread, with well-proportioned pores like a loom and exquisite arrangement like a brocade, without any broken ends and knots. Weighing 3,240 grams, * * * extracted nearly 10,000 gold wires with a length of about one meter and a diameter of about 0. 1 mm, and woven them into cloth. Moreover, the embroidery method of the whole dress adopts the ancient embroidery technique that has long been lost. In terms of workmanship and materials alone, it is worth about one billion. Moreover, the various patterns and crafts embroidered on it can add 100 million yuan to it. Coupled with its historical value and celebrity effect, this "golden shroud" is naturally more than 3 billion.
199 1 years ago, Xiao Taihou's crown ornaments were alive, 1993, Xiao Taihou's phoenix robe was alive, 1995, Xiao Taihou's golden shroud was alive. It is no exaggeration to say that these shrouds add up to 3.4 billion RMB!