Underground Dynasty: Ancient Cats Talk About Chinese Tombs

Behind every ancient tomb is the crazy imagination of our ancestors about the world after death! Sort out China's 35,000-year tomb culture and experience the mystery and romance of the "underworld" immersively! This is a hard-core and interesting introductory book on Chinese tomb archeology, which comprehensively reviews the evolution of Chinese tomb culture over the past 35,000 years. After death, you are buried under the bed, your head is steamed in a pot, the underworld rules the world, the gods have their own arrangements... This is not a novel, but a real history! Combining the knowledge points of professional disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, religion, and ancient architecture, the origin and evolution of tomb culture are sorted out according to time and space, subverting the records of single history books, restoring neglected historical details, and showing the spiritual world and social life of ancient people from a new perspective. Containing a large number of real archaeological excavation cases, from the magnificent pre-Qin imperial mausoleums, to the magnificent and fantastic Mawangdui in Changsha, to the ingenious tomb designs of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, this book tells the ins and outs of the evolution of Chinese tombs...