What are the characteristics of tombs in Han Dynasty? What are the famous tombs?

There are two main forms of tomb architecture in Han Dynasty. One is to dig a rectangular vertical hole in the ground as a tomb, which is called a pit tomb; Then build a wooden tomb with wooden boards at the bottom of the pit, which is called a wooden tomb; Tombs built with hollow bricks or small bricks or slabs are called hollow brick tombs, brick tombs and stone tombs respectively. One is to take out a horizontal hole at one end or one side of the bottom of the vertical hole pit as a tomb, which is called a soil hole tomb or a hole tomb. Others are built by digging holes in the mountains, called cliff tombs.

Some hollow brick tombs and brick chamber tombs were also built in earth caves. In many large masonry tombs, painted murals are also popular for decoration, called mural tombs. Carving various portraits on the walls of stone tombs is called stone relief tombs. Another kind of brick with portrait is embedded in the brick room tomb, which is called portrait brick tomb.

The four major Han groups in China refer to Mangdang Mountain in Yongcheng, Henan, Jianghan Tombs in Santai, Sichuan, xian county, Hebei and Hepu, Guangxi. Their biggest similarity is that "cutting mountains for corridors and piercing stones for hiding".

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Burial tools and customs of Han tombs

Burial tombs, soil cave tomb tombs, hollow brick tombs and brick chamber tombs usually only use wooden coffins; Wooden tombs are mostly one coffin, and princes use double or multi-layer coffins. Generally speaking, pit tombs, soil cave tomb tombs, hollow brick tombs and wooden tombs were popular in the early Western Han Dynasty, and one person was buried. In the late Western Han Dynasty, stone tombs, brick tombs and mural tombs appeared, and joint burial of husband and wife became popular.

By the Eastern Han Dynasty, brick tombs were popular all over the country, stone tombs, brick tombs and cliff tombs were also widely popular in Shandong and Sichuan, and family burial was popular for generations. Regardless of single burial or joint burial, the deceased was buried with a straight back.

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