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The Lady Dou Wan (Chinese: 竇綰; pinyin: Dòu Wǎn) was the wife of Liu Sheng a Chinese prince of the Han Dynasty.Her tomb was discovered in 1968 in Mancheng county. Her body was encased in a jade burial suit. Hers and her husband’s were the first jade burial suits to be discovered by archaeologists. These burial suits were made to protect the people from the flesh-soul. The common belief of this period was that every human being owned two souls: a flesh-soul and a breath-soul.

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