Since ancient times, emperors have been buried with the living. If the emperor died, and his wife, servants, slaves and others were buried with him, it was for the sake of the emperor himself to enjoy the splendor before his death and continue to enjoy the powerful position in the world, then what does it mean to be buried with boys and girls found in many tombs?
In fact, the reason has a lot to do with emperors' selfishness. In ancient times, in everyone's cognition, children were pure and could see things that ordinary people could not see, because at that time, there was a saying that children were the most spiritual beings. Many emperors hoped that their souls would not turn to dust and disappear after their death, but that they would be able to ascend to heaven and still live a noble life in another world.
emperors will pursue immortality, but in fact, many emperors have looked for a panacea, and none of them exist, because this is a natural law, and there is no life with eternal life. Ancient people thought that children were immortal, so they also had the saying of spiritual root. The emperor left the children in his mausoleum with mercury, just hoping to use the spirituality and so-called aura of children. Help yourself to get closer to the so-called illusory fairyland after death. Being immortal is their most extravagant hope in the hopeless situation of eternal life, so use all methods to satisfy their desire as much as possible. Many tombs pay attention to the theory of geomantic omen. A good geomantic omen position can make the dying emperor more convinced that he can have happiness after death, and virgins can make his way to immortality more convenient.
To sum up, burying with the dead was the ethos at that time, but in the final analysis, it was the selfishness of emperors, and boys and girls were just victims.