两汉时期,厚葬成风,究其原因,一是灵魂不灭的观念,“以为死人有知,与生人无以异”(王充:《论衡·薄葬篇》)。即把死人当作活人对待,迷信人死之后有另一个世界,鬼神和活人一样需要饮食起居,也就是所谓的“鬼犹其食”(《左传·宣公五年》)。所以,对死人的供奉要和活人一样讲究,也即所谓“事死如事生”(《左传·哀公十五年》)。因此,把生活中需要的一切 During the Han dynasty, burial burial prevailed, the reason, one is the concept of the immortality of the soul, “that the dead know, no stranger to the stranger ” (Wang Chong: “Lun Heng thin burial articles”). That is, treating the dead as an alive person, there is another world after the superstitious person dies, and the ghosts and gods need the same daily necessities as the living people, that is, the so-called “Ghosts and Juveniles” (“Zuo Xuan Xuan Gong”) . Therefore, the devotion to the dead should be as particular as the living, that is, the so-called “life and death as a matter of life ” (“Zuo mourn for fifteen years”). So, take everything that life needs