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Grave number 7, row 8, names a slave called Shi Shuyong, whose date of death was 28 January 108 CE, a time of year when frosts are often severe in the Luoyang basin. He came from Rencheng prison, much further away down the Yellow River, by modern Jining. He was unskilled and had a fifth-degree sentence, the most severe.
The Story of China: The Epic History of a World Power from the Middle Kingdom to Mao and the China Dream
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