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Chinese researchers' latest discovery inside the tomb of a patrician who lived in the early Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC-476 BC) proves that it was common for ancient Chinese to use synthetic white lead makeup at that time, nearly 300 years earlier than in Europe and the Mediterranean region.