What is the content and format of ordinary tombstone inscriptions?

(1) Tombstones usually consist of three parts: the head, the text and the signature.

1. Look up and write mainly about the post and occupation of the deceased, and some of them can be omitted.

2. The text mainly indicates the name of the deceased and the name of the deceased. For example, "First test the tomb of Wang Jun ×× adults".

3. Write down the identity and name of the person who set up the monument. The time for setting up the monument can be written or not.

(II) Epitaph Epitaph often consists of three parts: title, text and inscription.

1. The title is generally composed of the name of the deceased and the name of the language. Such as "Epitaph of Liu Zihou".

2. The text is general, but the epitaph text consists of three aspects.

First, briefly introduce the main life experiences of the deceased;

the second is to evaluate the major achievements and social values of the deceased;

The third is to write the significance of setting up a monument, and at the same time express condolences for the unfortunate death of the deceased.

Extended information:

For the graves of funeral relatives, you can remember them clearly 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 the beginning, people were buried from the dead. Inspired by the garden stake used to maintain the coffin rope, wooden stakes and bamboo poles were inserted in front of the tomb, and fibrous things (paper or silk, etc.) were tied to indicate the date and time of birth and death of the dead, which was called "Ming Jing" (or "Ming Jing"). But it is easy to be damaged, so people try to find another way: rich people 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 a square and rectangle, and it began to be buried inside or outside the tomb. Referring to the building construction, the top of the monument was added with a monument cap, decorated with animal, plant or landscape patterns, and the monument body was engraved with the resume of the deceased.

indicate that it is buried alone with his wife, concubine, son and daughter. The geomantic geographical orientation of the inscribed yin house (that is, the tomb) (indicated by 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, or ceramic brick tablets or planting some evergreen trees as signs.