How much do you know about graves, tombs, tombs, and tombs? They are all places used to bury the dead, but they are still very different. In ancient China, it was mainly based on the status of the deceased before their death to distinguish their resting places, and then there was a difference between graves, tombs, tombs, tombs, and mausoleums.
[Grave]: "The high one who is high in the earth is called a grave." ”
Burying the deceased in the soil and piling them up in the shape of a small mound that bulges upwards is the grave.
There are two theories about why they were piled up in the shape of small mounds, the first of which is to commemorate those who died inexplicably because of grievances. It is said that after the success of the Wu King's cutting, because the Shang King killed many innocent ministers during his lifetime, he ordered the graves of the loyal ministers to be raised to commemorate them.
The second theory is more common, the shape of the graves is piled into small mounds to make a mark, so that the next time you come to pay homage to the dead, you can find it smoothly. Later, most of the people buried their bodies in the soil after they died, which was simple and convenient and inexpensive, and when the family conditions were slightly rich, laying a straw mat was nothing more.
【Tomb】: In ancient times, where ponds and caves were dug to bury coffins, covered with soil and bulldozed, and those who did not plant trees were called tombs
After the deceased was put into a coffin, buried in a large pit dug in advance, and then filled in with soil, people generally erected a stone stele in front of their tombs to facilitate sacrifices.
The tomb, in the old language, is that the sun gradually sets in the grass, meaning that at dusk, the deceased calmly closes his eyes and leaves, there is no great grievance, so there is no need to raise the grave. About the coffin and stone stele is also very exquisite, generally people buy according to their economic situation, the price of the coffin according to the material of its wood, there are cypress, mulberry, nan wood.
The stone stele is also different from its material and special craftsmen are invited to create it, and the savings of ordinary people for a lifetime may not be enough to buy a coffin.
【Tsukasa】: "The grave of the tomb is also known as the tomb"
It refers to those tombs that are very grandly repaired, but ordinary people are not allowed to repair tombs, and only those princes and nobles or those who have made great contributions to the country before they die can enter the tomb after death.
In ancient times, warriors fought to the death on the battlefield, all of them were blurred with flesh and blood, and finally they could only put the clothes they wore before they were born into the tomb, it is said that there is a saying that people will build their tombs in advance when they are alive, mainly to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings, build a false tomb in advance, to deceive the king of Yama that he is dead, don't come to me to hell, and then be a free living immortal.
【Mausoleum】: Dedicated to the emperor, there are generally large earth mountains
It is also the tomb of the ancient emperor. Mausoleum is a quite huge project, some emperors just made the emperor began to build their own mausoleum, sometimes a mausoleum covers an area of about the same size as a city (the area of the Mausoleum of qin shi huang is equivalent to two Macao), presumably everyone has heard of the terracotta warriors of the qin shi huang mausoleum, so magnificent and magnificent, the architectural structure of the mausoleum is also quite complex, there are emperors and empresses of the underground palace, but also to repair the tombs of the prince and concubines, as well as some ministers, soldiers, various weapons and so on.
The cultural relics of the funeral are of great value. In the construction should also take into account the anti-theft, so as not to let future generations will enter the underground palace, steal some cultural relics, usually set up a very complex mechanism, can be described as well-intentioned ah.
The above is to share with you some common sense about graves, tombs, tombs, tombs, so that the ancients are really exquisite and have a very distinct concept of hierarchy.