What was it like to be dead (and wealthy) in ancient China

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What was it like to be dead (and wealthy) in ancient China

Consider the structure and appointments of the tombs constructed for King Cuo of Zhongshan (died 321 BCE), the Marquis Yi of Zeng (died 433 BCE) Warring States aristocrats from the perspectives of their owners. What do their tombs and their contents tell us about how the dead were different from the living? How were they the same?

Use images i submite to flesh out essay, including image which should be about 3-4 pages in length. This assignment is intended to be an imaginative exercise, so kind of structure it however you like (as a comparative essay in a scholarly mode or as a work of fiction or something in-between), without losing touch with the visual aspects of the actual tombs and their contents.
WORDS will be 3 pages and including picture should be 4 or five pages

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