It is very difficult to arrive at clear-cut answers that would apply to the entire span of the Han dynasty which, after all, lasted more than four centuries, but the wife of the Marquis Yi of Zeng offers a lot of thought- provoking clues. Her body was unearthed in the 1970s from a 2,000-year-old tomb in Changsha, Hunan Province.
觀諸紀元前後的漢代女性形象，很難從整個漢朝分割出來，不如就從近來在台灣展出的湖南長沙馬王堆漢墓出土「人」物利蒼夫人說起。