Generally speaking, there are several common sacrificial objects in ancient tombs in China: pearl jade, ritual vessels, musical instruments, weapons, tools and daily necessities. The first four items are not available to ordinary people, while farmers and craftsmen usually bring tools they used before their death. Even if you are poor, you may not even have a decent tool, at least you should bring some daily necessities to make up for it.

Pottery pots are ubiquitous in life. They are cheap, easy to get and well preserved. Maybe they can be found in ditches.

Vendors and pawns rush about for rations, and dignitaries are hurt by food, but no matter how high or low, they are inevitably hungry and cold, and clay pots filled with food and water are therefore essential, so ordinary and humble clay pots are the objects that can best meet people's daily needs. The dead also need sacrifice. If you don't have a pottery jar when you go to the underworld, what can you use to hold food and water and enjoy the sacrifice?

Pottery figurines are sacrifices. When it comes to human sacrifice, it is necessary to mention "human sacrifice".

In ancient times, people thought that after the end of life, a person's soul would never die and live in another space. In order to show the respect and love of the living for the dead, it is to bury all the things he liked before his death and let the dead continue to use them in another world. Among many funerary objects, human sacrifice is the highest standard funerary object. It is also a person who is close to the deceased before his death, or a servant who is used to it.

China's history of martyrdom began in the slave age of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and continued to the Western Han Dynasty, only gradually deposed in name, and then occasionally emperors and nobles.

After the death of deposed people, pottery figurines were once substitutes. Therefore, pottery figurines are the embodiment of civilization and progress.