Do you know how tombstones come from?

Regarding the graves of relatives, one or two generations can remember them clearly, but after the third generation, they will not be clear. Especially through migration, the war will not know where the ancestral graves are. How to solve the problem, people have come up with many methods. At the beginning, people buried the dead to maintain The garden wooden stakes used for coffin ropes were inspired, and wooden stakes and bamboo poles were inserted in front of the tomb, and fibrous things (paper or silk, etc.) were attached to write down the date and time of the deceased's birth and death, which was called "Ming Jing"; (or "Ming Jing"). But it is easy to damage, so people think of other ways: rich and noble people use stone garden pillars instead of wooden garden stakes, and engrave the names of the deceased, birth time, official rank, etc. on the stone pillars.

\u003Ci>为了多刻字其形体又演变为方形,长方形,开始埋于墓穴内或墓外,参照房屋建筑,碑顶加上碑帽,饰刻动,植物或山水花纹,碑身刻上死者简历.标明是独葬与妻,妾,子,女等合葬.附刻阴宅(即坟墓)风水地理位置朝向．\u003C\/i> \u003Cb>In order to engrave more characters, its shape has evolved into a square or a rectangle, and it has been buried in or outside the tomb. With reference to housing construction, the top of the stele is added with a stele cap, decorated with animals, plants or landscape patterns, and the body of the stele is engraved with the resume of the deceased. Buried alone with his wife, concubine, children, daughters, etc. With engraved yin house (ie tomb) feng shui location orientation.\u003C\/b> \u003Ci>(以天干地支表明).中产之家立中等墓碑,穷家仅可立上留个名字的小墓碑,或陶砖碑或栽培某种长青树为标识.\u003C\/i> \u003Cb>(Indicated by the zodiac). Middle-class families can erect medium-sized tombstones, and poor families can only erect small tombstones with a name, or pottery bricks or cultivate some kind of evergreen tree as a sign.\u003C\/b>

Then the tombstones were gradually transformed from practical objects into cultural works of art, and their functions, shapes, textures, and ornaments became more and more diverse. Celebrity tombstones pay more attention to the use of high-quality stone such as granite and marble for the body of the tombstone. The top of the tombstone has statues of the deceased or In the center of the stele is inlaid the burnt porcelain image of the deceased. The tombstone has become a "honor" and ornament that records the lineage and merits of the deceased's clan.

In order to protect from natural erosion and man-made damage such as wind, rain, sun, etc., the tablet table was erected outside the tomb, and the epitaph and inscription were buried in the tomb.