If there are many descendants, you can write the inscription directly above the words "Tomb of XXX" according to the modern writing method (horizontal writing from left to right), and then write: Born in X years, X months and X days; Died of (two lines of fine print); Write the names of the people who erected the monument as follows: son, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, grandson (including spouse), grandson (including spouse), great-grandson, great-grandson. Finally, write down the date of the monument.

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You can remember the graves of bereavement for one or two generations, but not after three generations, especially after migration and war, you don't know where the ancestral graves are. How to solve it, people have come up with many ways. At first, people buried the dead. Inspired by the wooden stakes used to maintain the coffin rope, they inserted wooden stakes and bamboo poles in front of the tomb and tied fibrous things (paper or silk, etc.) ) to indicate the date and time of birth and death of the deceased, which is called "Ming Jing" (or "Ming Jing"). But it is easy to be damaged, so people try to find another way: the rich use stone pillars instead of wooden pillars, and engrave the name, birth time and official rank of the deceased on the stone pillars.

In order to carve more characters, its shape evolved into squares and rectangles, and it began to be buried inside or outside the tomb. Referring to the architectural structure, the top of the monument is capped and decorated with animals, plants or landscape patterns, and the body of the monument is engraved with the resume of the deceased. It shows that he was buried alone with his wife, concubine, son and daughter. Geomantic geographical orientation of the inscribed Yin House (that is, the tomb) (expressed in heavenly stems and earthly branches). Middle-class families set up medium-sized tombstones, while poor families can only set up small stone tablets with names, ceramic brick tablets or plant some evergreen trees as symbols.

As a result, tombstones are gradually transformed from practical products into cultural works of art, and their functions, shapes, textures and decorations are becoming more and more diversified. Celebrity tombstones pay more attention to granite, marble and other high-quality stone materials. There is a statue of the deceased on the top of the monument or a porcelain statue of the deceased embedded in the center of the monument. Tombstones have become "honorary certificates" and decorations to record the family background and merits of the deceased. This is in line with the social fashion of China people to honor their ancestors, benefit future generations and last forever.

In order to avoid natural erosion and man-made destruction caused by wind, rain and sun, a monument was erected outside the tomb, and the epitaph and inscription were buried in the tomb. Tombstones prevailed in Han and Tang dynasties, and later became a fixed trend.

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First, the wooden tablet stands in front of the palace, so it is called "there must be a tablet in the palace." This wooden tablet is used to know the shadow of the sun. From the yin and yang of the shadow of the sun, the seasonal changes can be measured.

The second is to erect a monument in front of the ancient ancestral temple, which is perforated and used to tie sacrificial animals, and bring out blood sacrifices after the gods meet;

Third, ancient stone tablets are tools to lead coffins into burial.

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At the four corners or two sides of the tomb, a wooden column with a round hole is erected, which is called "piercing". Then put a crossbar between the two pillars, and a rope is wrapped around the wood, which can be used to put the rope and pull the coffin into the grave like a pulley. After burial, the wooden tablet is buried underground or placed beside the tomb. During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Emperor of Heaven had six fibers and four monuments, the princes had four fibers and three monuments, and the doctors had two fibers and two monuments. In the Zhou Dynasty, emperors began to use stone tablets, and princes also began to use stone tablets on weekends.

The stone tablets of the Zhou Dynasty were only used to wear coffins into holes, and there was no inscription on them. In the Han Dynasty, information such as the name of the deceased, the date of birth and death, etc. was engraved on the monument, and people with status began to erect monuments and spread them, forming etiquette culture such as tombstones and tomb tables.

It is the key point to build a tomb to establish a monument. According to geomantic omen, they are all oriented by the direction of gravestones, which is an important link of good or bad luck in a cemetery. We should carefully consider the size of the tombstone, the size of the text, and the time when the tombstone broke ground. Under normal circumstances, it is buried first and then erected.

There are two reasons: first, after burial, it is necessary to leave a period of time for rain and soil to combine, so that the imaginary square can become a real square, which can avoid the depression of the ground when the monument is erected;

Second, after burial, set aside a period of time for family members to consider the contents of the inscription. In particular, the evaluation of celebrities should be carefully considered, such as: the emperor shunzhi founded in the Qing Dynasty, buried in the second year of Kangxi, and erected a monument in the sixth year of Kangxi. The second generation Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty was buried in the first year of Yongzheng, and a monument was erected in the fifth year of Yongzheng. It is true that ordinary people also have people who bury and erect monuments at the same time.

The tombstone scale, limited by the traditional geomantic belief, should be auspicious. You can use the "Feng Shui ruler" to rule. In the south, the "Ding Lan rule" is used to decide good luck or bad luck. One foot of Ding Lan ruler is about 38. 1 cm. Divide one foot into ten squares and note one word, that is, ten words such as wealth, loss, glory, death, official, righteousness, suffering, harm and ding. Among them, wealth, prosperity, official, righteousness, prosperity and ding are auspicious cases, which can be selected according to the scale. And other unlucky losses, deaths, sufferings and injuries, try to avoid them. Nowadays, "Lu Banchi" is widely used in civil engineering, especially in the construction of ancient wood furniture, which is imitated by carpenters.

Lubanchi is divided into two grades, the upper part is Yang House and the lower part is Yin House. In every centimeter of tape measure, there are good and bad luck of geomantic omen. In today's cemetery, Lubanchi pays great attention to auspicious figures in the design and construction. For example, the size of a tombstone is usually 100cm high, 60cm wide and 8 cm thick; The lying tablet is 55 cm high or 50 cm wide and 8 cm thick. On Lubanchi, the windfall of 100cm is displayed. 60cm becomes a treasure, an unexpected fortune. 80cm tiande 55cm good luck. 50 cm into the treasure, Fu Na. 80cm wealth, and brothers.

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Baidu encyclopedia-tombstone