Funerals in ancient China were generally popular for burial, and our country still has the idea of "falling leaves back to the roots", so no matter how far away from home, you still want to go back.
"Man is inherently dead", in the primitive social period, when the ancients did not have the concept of "the soul does not die", they did not have the habit of burying the dead, and later people felt that death did not mean the end, believing in the existence of ghosts and gods, so they began to carry out sacrifice activities, in order to resurrect the dead and reincarnate the soul.
After a series of evolutions, funeral rites in the Xia Shang Zhou gradually to systematic, procedural development, three days of burial, coffin system, etc. have appeared, "Zhou Li" will be people's diet, living, funeral and other aspects of social life are included in the category of "rites", the formation of a special liturgical culture, "all beings must die, death will return to the land" is also appeared in the "Zhou Li".
China's Shang Dynasty was the peak period of thick burial, the burial goods were very luxurious, the Spring and Autumn Warring States period collapsed and happy, in the middle and late Warring States period, there was a mausoleum system centered on the monarch, and there were mercenary people who began to excavate graves.
During the Western Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Han began to promote "simple funeral and thin burial", because it was not very rich at that time, so the situation of thin burial was still very much, but after the people's livelihood was rich, it began to be popular for long funerals and thick burials. When emperor Guangwu of the Eastern Han Dynasty arrived, he saw that the tomb of the Western Han Emperor had been stolen and excavated, and he dismissed the idea of a thick burial.
In the history of our country, although the situation of thick burial is very much, it is not always popular for thick burial, and it is often a thin burial when the war is in chaos, the dynasty is decaying, and the country is recuperating.
Funeral rites during the Tang Dynasty advocated Zhou rites and tended to be standardized, and there was a lot of red tape, as was the case in the Song, Ming, and Qing dynasties, which were greatly influenced by the "Funeral Rites and Funerals of Scholars".
However, there are tomb robbers, the ancients will also consider the problem of anti-theft, set up a lot of organs in the tomb, and the thieves fight wits and courage, and in the ancient tombs found today, the most admired by modern people is probably the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, which not only makes the thieves helpless, but also makes the archaeologists helpless.
In addition, the ancient tomb of the five generations of Xiangyang in Hubei Province, the owner of the tomb has no way to verify, but archaeologists in the 90s of the last century to excavate this tomb, from which more than 200 robbery caves were found, when archaeologists saw these robbery caves, the heart is also inhaled a cool breath, but to everyone's surprise is that the treasures in the tomb for thousands of years have not been lost, and there are more than 80 bones of tomb robbers.
This is the most bizarre ancient tomb is a typical quicksand tomb, the tomb passage and the surrounding of the burial chamber are filled with fine sand, fine sand is also specially treated before being put into the tomb, the sand will be baked dry and then filled in, such fine sand retains a high fluidity, and the fine sand filled into the tomb is also dozens of tons.
When archaeologists were working at that time, they also called on multiple excavators to hollow out the fine sand in the tomb. It is not difficult to understand that the bones of the 80 tomb robbers appeared in the ancient tomb, probably because the quicksand was dug up, swallowed by the quicksand, and finally could not go out, becoming the "funeral companion" of the tomb owner.
Therefore, the tomb robbers are most afraid of encountering not "rice dumplings" in the ancient tomb, but fine sand and mercury, and some other fine sand tombs will also place some stones, when the thieves dig into the fine sand, the fine sand flows, the stones on it will roll down, mercilessly smacking at the intruder, and the stone also has a reinforcing effect.