Why do some graves in rural areas have tombstones and others do not?
This can actually be divided into several situations. The first one is that if one of the husband and wife dies, in order to allow the couple to be buried together in the same place in the future, a grave will be erected first. , and then a monument was erected. When the other member of the couple also dies, they will be buried together, and a joint monument will be erected on which the names of the couple and their descendants will be engraved. This is a very common phenomenon in our area, so you will find that some graves look new and have no weeds, but there are no monuments.
The second situation is that there is a custom in some places that no monument will be erected within three years after the tomb is erected.
The third situation is that some graves are very old, especially for the older generation. Many people only know the general location and do not know the specific situation at all. Many people no longer know who is buried in the grave, let alone what monument should be erected.
The fourth situation is that erecting a tombstone is generally a matter of Feng Shui. Many people will choose a suitable day, and some people will even ask a Feng Shui master to look at the direction of the tombstone and the surroundings. environment, and specific time.
Another important thing is that many people now choose to engrave epitaphs on tombstones, and epitaphs are a more formal and serious matter, so they cannot be careless. They will carefully and carefully find someone to carve it specially, and it will definitely take some time from writing the epitaph to carving the epitaph. Especially carving an epitaph requires a certain amount of manpower and material resources, so you have to wait for the tombstone to be carved slowly. So there is a certain amount of waiting time, so it will take a certain amount of time to erect the monument.
The last one is geographical factors, because rural areas are not like the cemeteries in cities. They are very neatly arranged in rows. If there are no tombstones, you will not know which one is which. But it's different in rural areas. The rural area is large and there are many mountains. Even if you don't erect a monument, you don't have to worry about finding a place.