Discovery of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty tomb, why a pit with multiple coffins?

The ancients "regarded death as a matter of life, regarded things as a matter of survival", the world after death is unknown, which gave birth to the burial culture. How to bury the dead in order to make them happy in the world after death, and even still enjoy the glory and wealth. So more and more people chose to die, will be alive in the possession of the treasure together into the tomb, greed is to be retribution, with the proliferation of grave robbers occupation, a lot of rich and noble people's tombs were dug open, the corpse was trampled, the treasure was stolen.

Today's discovery of Eastern Zhou Dynasty tombs in Jiangxi Province is also due to a case of grave robbing, but after the experts rushed to the scene, the owner of the tomb is not a person, which is why?

In 2006, China's tourism industry is showing a spurt of development, in the remote mountain village of Jing'an County, Jiangxi Province, because of the beautiful scenery, there are often people here to explore, the villagers once found that the village came to a lot of outsiders, thought it was a tourist, so did not ask. There are even foreign travelers said to stay a few days, but did not expect in the evening of this day outside the village but suddenly issued a loud noise, many people were awakened.

The villagers who were awakened by the noise immediately rushed to the hillock outside the village, "Jaimegang", and found that the original hills full of trees had been blown out of a huge crater, and it turned out that this group of tourists were even grave robbers, I don't know whether it was because of the equipment malfunction or personnel conflicts, but also accidentally detonated the explosives, the villagers rushed to the tomb robbers have run away, so the villagers were not able to find the explosives. The villagers rushed to the police.

The police rushed to the scene to maintain order, and reported to the relevant cultural relics department, archaeologists rushed to immediately carry out salvage excavations, the impact of explosives is likely to destroy the tomb, so time is very precious, in the consecutive months after the excavation, this scale of the tomb finally reappeared in the world.

Based on the shape of the tomb, experts judged that the history of this tomb can be traced back to the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, with a total of more than 650 pieces of artifacts unearthed.

Because the time is too long, coupled with the impact of explosives, so many cultural relics have been destroyed. Among these artifacts are 144 pieces of bamboo and wood, 12 pieces of lacquer, 13 pieces of jade, 30 pieces of bronze, 7 pieces of primitive blue porcelain, 1 piece of gold, 5 pieces of metal and more than 300 pieces of textiles, in addition to which a large number of specimens of human skeletons have also been unearthed.

Where did these human bone specimens come from? In the tomb *** there are 47 coffins, the main chamber coffins larger, should be the master of the coffin, while the other coffins smaller, through the examination of the bones are mostly women, and most of the age of 15 to 20 years old.

Most of the deceased were buried with their heads east and feet west, with straight limbs on their backs and a few with bent limbs on their sides, using textile fabrics or bamboo mats to wrap up their bodies, and some of them may not have worn clothes. Burial goods placed at the feet of the deceased or feet in the bamboo container, the maximum number of burials 19 pieces, the minimum of 3 pieces. The combination of burial goods includes small bronze handmade tools, wooden textile tools, bamboo textile tools and so on.

The experts speculated that these young girls should be the palace of the imperial handmade workshop courtesans, they master embroidered a variety of silk fabrics, in the master's death was poisoned to death, in the form of naked burials to follow the master into the other world to continue to serve the master.