The person who first made the figurines will have no descendants. This sentence comes from "Mencius, King Hui of Liang, Part 1". The original sentence is Zhongni said: The first person to make the figurines will have no descendants. ?It is used because it resembles a human being. ?The meaning of this sentence is: Confucius once said, ?The first person to make pottery figurines for burial, he will have no descendants! ? (Confucius opposed the burial of pottery figurines) Just because the pottery figurines look like people, not to mention the people who let the people starve to death? ?

Many people think that Confucius opposed the sacrificial burial of pottery figurines and advocated human sacrifice. In fact, it is quite the opposite. I think the reason why Confucius hated the sacrificial burial of pottery figurines so much was because he criticized the practice of human sacrifice a long time ago. I hate being martyred.

As we all know, during the slave society in ancient my country, human sacrifice was advocated. After the death of the slave owner, many slaves were buried with him. During the Xia Dynasty and the Shang Dynasty, most people used human sacrifice. After the Zhou Dynasty replaced the Shang Dynasty, they banned human sacrifice and began to advocate using straw men to replace living people. After the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, for the sake of posthumous glory, the vassal states gradually began to replace straw figures with exquisitely made pottery figurines that resembled real people. What Confucius pursued in his life was to revive the Zhou rites. When he saw that the burial system was gradually going against the Zhou rites, he would certainly feel angry.

Zhu Xi, a great scholar of the Song Dynasty, wrote in "Annotations to the Four Classics": The figurines are used to bury puppets. In ancient times, those who were buried in Sokcho were thought to be guards, and they were called cud spirits, which looked slightly like human beings. In the Middle Ages, figurines were made with faces and muscles, and were as large as human beings. Therefore, Confucius hated his unkindness and said that he would have no descendants. ?Confucius would hate pottery figurines because they look too much like real people. We must know that the era Confucius lived in was the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period when rituals collapsed and music collapsed. Zhou Rites could no longer restrain the nobles of the vassal states. He was afraid that the rulers would go against the grain and reappear the ancient times of human sacrifice, so Will curse the first person to make pottery figurines.

Furthermore, the core idea of ??Confucianism is "benevolence", which means loving others. Moreover, Confucianism has always advocated "high maintenance and poor burial" when it comes to funerals. Not to mention how exquisite these pottery figurines are, Confucians cannot accept the fact that they resemble human beings. In the eyes of Confucians, this is a sign of contempt for a humble person, so it is normal to oppose the burial of pottery figurines.