Generally speaking, the common burial objects in Chinese ancient tombs mainly include the following categories: pearls and jade, ritual vessels, musical instruments, weapons, tools, daily necessities, etc. The first four items are generally not available to ordinary families, and farmers and craftsmen

Generally, they would bring the tools they used during their lifetime. If you were poorer, you might not even have decent tools, so you would at least need to bring some daily items to replenish your supplies.

Clay pots are something that can be seen everywhere in life. They are cheap, readily available, and easy to store. You might even find them in ditches.

Traffickers and lackeys run around for food, and dignitaries are exhausted by delicious food. However, no matter how high or low they are, they can't avoid the desire for food. Therefore, clay pots for food and water are indispensable. Therefore, ordinary and inconspicuous clay pots are the most effective.

Objects that support people's daily needs.

The dead also need to offer sacrifices. If there are no earthenware pots in the underworld, what can we use to hold food, water, and enjoy offerings?

Pottery figurines are burial objects. When talking about burial sacrifice, we must mention "human sacrifice".

Ancient people believed that after a person's life ends, his soul will not die and live in another space. Therefore, in order to show the living people's respect and love for the dead person, they would bury all the things that the person liked during his life so that the deceased person can be buried with him.

People continue to use it in another world. Among the many funerary objects, human sacrifice is the highest-level funerary object. In the same way, people who were close to the deceased during his or her lifetime, or accustomed servants, are buried together.

Human sacrifice in Chinese history started from the slave era of Xia, Shang and Zhou, and continued until the Western Han Dynasty, when it was gradually deposed in name. After that, there were still sporadic emperors and nobles.

When people were deposed and martyred, pottery figurines were the substitutes of the past.

Therefore, pottery figurines are the embodiment of civilization and progress.