礼乐制度是维护统治阶级地位的保证。从维护宗法制度、君权、族权、夫权和对神祗尊崇的神权,进而演绎出世袭制和等级制度来,统治阶层为了更好地维护自己的统治,增强了对于包括丧礼和墓葬制度在内的各种礼乐制度的重视。到了战国时期,考古发现的葬具可大致分三大类:第一类,多棺多椁或大棺大椁,并绘画蔚然成风;第二类即单棺单椁者,也见彩绘;第三类则是无棺无椁者。曾侯乙墓的椁室可分为北、东、中、西室, Ritual and musical system is to ensure the ruling class status guarantee. From the maintenance of the patriarchal clan system, the monarchy, the ethnic rights, the husbands and the gods which revered the gods, and then deduced the hereditary system and the hierarchical system. In order to better safeguard their own ruling class, the ruling class strengthened the system of the funeral and the burial system The various courtesy and music system attention. In the Warring States Period, the archaeological finds of burial tools can be broadly divided into three categories: the first category, more coffin or more coffin, and the painting is a common practice; the second category is single coffin single coffin, see also painted; the third It is without coffin Zeng Hou Tomb 椁 room can be divided into North, East, Central and Western Chamber,