T‘an Kung, Gems of Chinese Literature — Burying Alive (1922)
“ It was said to have been suggested by an earlier and more harmless custom of placing straw and wooden effigies in the mausolea of the great. ↑ In the 8th moon (b.c. 590) Duke Wên of Sung died. He was the first duke who had an elaborate funeral. Clam mortar was used for lining the grave. There were additional horses and carriages; and human beings were now for the first time interred alive with the dead.―Tso Chuan. ”
