What is the difference between an ancient tomb and a tomb?
1. Different shapes
1. Tombs are generally flat and not higher than the ground.
2. A bag of earth is piled on the grave to mark it.
2. The people buried have different dignity
1. Those who are intellectuals, or those who have a certain reputation, but are not officials, especially those who are buried in tombs.
2. Slaves, farmers, and lower class people, especially graves.
Extended information
Grave and tomb: The traditional Chinese character for grave comes from Tu and Ben. "Ben" means "to rush forward", and "Tu" and "Ben" combined mean "to reach the sky". The tomb that rises."
The word for tomb is Congmo, and the word Mo means the sun is in the grass. It is dusk and the sun goes down. The deceased is buried at this time and disappears with the sun, so the tomb does not have a grave bag. Conclusion: If the tomb has a raised earth mound, it means that the deceased had grievances and was grievances in his heart. For example, King Wu of Zhou Dynasty defeated Shang and ordered the tomb of Prince Bigan of Yin to be raised, which means that Bigan died unjustly; the surface of the tomb is flat, which means that the tomb owner It was a normal death, no injustice.
In ancient times, the mounded tombs were called tombs, and the flat ones were called tombs; the symmetry was different, but the collective names were connected. Later, it refers to the cave where the dead are buried and the grave mound (mound of soil) above it. It is commonly called "grave" and respectfully called "ancestral grave".
Documents:
1. "Zhou Li·Di Guan·Da Situ": "To protect all the people, the first is the palace and the second is the tombs of the clan."
2. "Historical Records: Biography of Li Sheng and Lu Jia": "I am a Chinese, and my relative Kundi's grave is in Zhending."
3. "Southern History: Biography of Yu Ji": "And the military revolution has ended , everyone is tired of chaos, who can abandon his grave, sacrifice his wife, risk death, and become a general in the hand of a sword?"
4. "The Strange Current Situation Witnessed in Twenty Years" No. Chapter 94: "You see, when the railway is built, the tombs will also have to be moved, not to mention the ancestral hall!"
5. Chapter 11 of Part 6 of Wei Wei's "Eastern": "Yang Xue's" The grave is on Nanshan Mountain in Songfengli."
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