Why are there two coffins in the tombs of ancient Chinese nobles and one of them is empty? What is the meaning of the corpse coffin?

Double coffins appear in ancient domestic tombs, and one coffin is empty. According to excavation reports, there are three situations.

1 A couple is buried together in a tomb with two coffins, but one corpse is not well preserved and completely decayed, resulting in an empty coffin. This is relatively common and has been found in tombs in Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi throughout the past dynasties.

2 It is also a joint burial tomb, but one party was not buried due to various reasons. This situation is mostly a double coffin bed and a single coffin, but among the tombs of the late Chu Dynasty nobles in Nanyang, Henan, there is this situations occur.

3 Relocation of tombs is a secondary burial. This situation was found in some tombs in the south of the Yangtze River during the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty. That is, there were bones in the coffins, but they were moved due to other reasons. The fact that the empty coffin remains is speculated to be related to family or family feuds.

As for the coffin for raising corpses, this is related to two materials. 1. Legend has it that a kind of dark wood on the seabed comes from the South China Sea. Using this wood to make coffins can prevent corpses from decaying for thousands of years.

2 There is a so-called underworld in Feng Shui, which is not suitable as a cemetery. Folk superstition believes that if corpses (people who died accidentally) are buried in such places, the corpses will turn into zombies and harm people. This kind of place is Known as a corpse-raising place

Internet novelists borrowed these materials and used their personal imagination to create the concept of corpse-raising coffins