There are many types of use tombstone?

A commemorative carrier of the burial of the deceased is made of stone material and made of wood, metal and other materials.
Ancient Chinese "tomb and not grave", only buried in the ground, the surface does not tree logo. And later gradually with the ground pile of graves, and the tombstone.
After the death of people, such as tomb, most of them have tombstone. The tombstone is usually engraved on the name of the deceased, the place of origin, the achievement, the date of death and the name of the monument and the relationship with the deceased.

For the funeral relatives of the tomb, one or two generations can be noted that after three generations is not clear, especially after the migration, the war will not know where the graves do. How to solve, people come up with many ways. At the beginning of the people from the dead buried, to maintain the coffin with the garden stakes were inspired by the pile in front of the pile of bamboo sticks, tied to the fiber things (paper or silk, etc.), that the dead date, Called "Ming Jing" (or "Ming Jing"). But it is easy, damaged, people will find another way: rich people with stone garden pillars instead of wooden piles, in the pillars carved dead name, birth time, official level.
In order to multi-lettering its body has evolved into a square, rectangular, began to be buried in the tomb or tomb, with reference to housing construction, monument top plus monument cap, decorated carved, plant or landscape pattern, monument engraved with the deceased resume. That is buried alone with his wife, concubine, son, female and other buried. Attached to the mansion (ie grave) feng shui geography location. (In heaven and earth to indicate). Middle of the middle of the family tombstone, poor family can only be set up on the name of a small stone, or ceramic tile or planting some kind of evergreen tree for the logo.
Thus the tombstone from the practical products gradually transformed into cultural art, its function, shape, texture, text decoration is also increasingly diversified. Celebrity tombstone more attention to the monument body with flowers just rock, marble and other fine stone, monument on top of the dead statue or in the monument center mosaic of the debris of the debris. The tombstone became the "honor" and the ornament of the deceased family lineage and merit. This is in line with the people of the light ancestors, Ze and future generations, Liufang eternal social habits.
For the wind, rain, sun and other natural erosion and man-made damage, put the monument in the tomb, epitaph and Ming buried in the tomb. Tombstone prevails in the Han, Tang, later become a set of potential.

Modern cemetery, most of the tombstone only write the name of the owner of the tomb, birth and death year, the monument and the monument to the time. There are also in the tombstone engraved with "Fu Shan descendants", "Enze future generations" and other words, in the tomb covered with "miss", "grief" like a short phrase. In the celebrity tombstone there is a brief introduction to the life of the tomb. There are living people, intentions, with love, with tears, with blood, with love to write the statement. It concentrated a long way of life, the table to do the infinite human situation. There are sad grief, happy memories, there are motivating rhetoric, there are warning people later Zhuang language. This living and the feelings of the deceased blend of text, full of life philosophy, the word between the lines are out of the true meaning of life, is a never read the encyclopedia.

One is to change the grave when the tombstone.
Two are dead after the custom made in the buried when the gravestone, with the passage of time, there are many people like the birthday of the tomb.
Sheng Ying Tomb that is not dead on the custom, to understand their own habitat after death, but also to some of the troubles to future generations.

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