 Pieces of jade were commonly placed in bodily orifices, or rarely crafted into jade burial suits.Generations of sinologists have repeatedly asserted that Han-era people commonly believed the heavenly "hun" and earthly "po" souls separated at death, but recent scholarship and archeology suggest that "hunpo" dualism was more an academic theory than a popular faith.Anna Seidel analyzed funerary texts discovered in Han tombs, which mention not only "po" souls but also "hun" remaining with entombed corpses, and wrote (1982