There is an old Chinese saying called "going into the soil for safety", life, old age, illness and death should be a normal thing for a person, once a person dies one day, bury it with soil and smear his eyes and blacken nothing.
In ancient China, due to the characteristics of the feudal dynasty, many people buried their ancestors in a somewhat different way than now, and now due to the shortage of land resources, most of them pay attention to cremation, and then find a small piece of cemetery to bury, while the ancients are different, they pay attention to the body skin by the parents, can not be abandoned, so many people are very rejected this way.
After they die of old age and illness, they will choose the simplest way, which is what we often call "burial", going into the soil for safety, and returning the fallen leaves to the roots.
Scientists discovered it in the 1930s
The cemetery of the cave man at the top of the mountain, three complete human skulls and trunk bones were found, the existence time of the cave man on the top of the mountain is 18,000 years ago, and the implementation of mainland burial was not completely abolished until the implementation of cremation in the 50s of the last century, that is to say, the burial of the mainland lasted for nearly 18,000 years, and even after the development of science, more archaeological remains may be explored.
From the Neolithic era to modern times, there are not to mention tens of billions of people who have lived and died, so many people should have so many tombs, so where are these tombs?
There were many wars, and some died in the war
Indeed, according to common sense, from ancient times to the present, China should have many tombs, but where there are people, there are rivers and lakes.
Chinese civilization lasted for more than 5,000 years, beginning with the emperor's unification of the Yellow River tribes, but china has been in war for almost half of its 5,000-year history.
There is an old Chinese saying called "unity for a long time, and a long time must be united", we can see from history, but after the reunification of ancient China, there will be various problems, if these social contradictions can be resolved, then it will enter the next prosperous world, once it does not work, it will enter the war.
Therefore, China has actually been in constant war for thousands of years, in a sense, we are the real "fighting nation", and how many military books in China have been circulating in the world for thousands of years can be said to be a good proof.
With the outbreak of war, there will certainly be a loss of population, and in the war years, many people will often die in the war.
They were either washed away by water, burned by fire, or pitted.
In the Battle of Changping alone, nearly 400,000 Zhao troops were killed, which shows the cruelty of ancient warfare, so these people accounted for most of the dead population in ancient times, and there were no tombs at all due to the war, and they were buried on the land of China with the passage of time.
Ancient nobles had tombs, and commoners were hastily buried
In fact, many of the tombs we find now will find a special place, that is, the owners of these tombs are either rich or expensive, and it can be said that in ancient times, only those nobles were eligible to choose their own place of death.
Xia Dynasty
Erlitou site is located in Yanshi District, Luoyang City, Henan Province, covers an area of 3.75 million square meters, from the excavated cultural relics there are many bronzes, bronzes, etc. in ancient times but it is a valuable item, the average small people can not afford to use, let alone in the thousands of years of slavery era.
For example, the Shang Dynasty
The tomb of The Lady good, its tomb unearthed a large number of bronzes, jade, bone tools, sea shells and other exquisite devices, which the ancients could not afford to use.
In the vicinity of the tomb of the woman, archaeologists have found many large and small mausoleums, most of which are
King-level tombs and more than 2,500 small and medium-sized tombs, it can be seen that most of the people who can be buried are nobles.
At the same time, in order to make themselves safe after death, the ancient nobles would not choose those large towns with prosperous populations when choosing a cemetery, but would choose relatively remote and remote areas, so that there would be fewer tomb robbers to steal their tombs.
As for ordinary civilians, they could only find a place to bury themselves outside the city,
Or buried in fixed public cemeteries, because the environment of these cemeteries is relatively simple, so there is no one to take care of it, and over time it becomes flat after being eroded by wind and sand
, hidden by nature.
After hundreds of thousands of years, it has gradually formed flat land, deep forests or farmland, etc., which will become cultural relics if they are lucky.
So that's why so many people have died since ancient times, and why there are so few tombs.