What are graves, tombs, burials and tombs? What is the difference?

Ancient society was hierarchical, and people with different identities were treated differently in terms of food, clothing, housing, transportation, birth, illness and death. For example, people with different identities have different names for the same death: the death of an emperor means collapse, the death of a vassal means death, the death of a doctor means death, the death of a scholar means failure, and the death of Shu Ren means death! People must be buried after death, and the place of burial has different names according to different identities: civilians call it grave, literati call it tomb, princes call it tomb, and emperors call it mausoleum.

The simplest grave is buried in the ground and piled with a mound; Graves are dug underground to build tombs. The ground is flat and there are tombstones. The mound is relatively high, with a tomb underground and high soil on the ground. The mausoleum is very large, with underground and large buildings on the ground. Graves are mounds built to bury the dead. In ancient times, digging ponds to bury coffins, covering the soil and piling it up flat, and not planting trees were called tombs. Grave, high grave. Mausoleum is the tomb of the emperor, and a special "mausoleum" is used to represent the tomb of the emperor.

In ancient times, the hierarchy was strict, and the specifications of graves after death were also stipulated. There are rules on whether to plant trees, what trees to plant and how many trees to plant. For example, there is a saying in the Book of Shang Jun in China: When a husband dies, his grave is a tree above the doctor. After the death of a husband without a title, only one tree can be planted in front of his grave. For the first-class male scholar above her husband to the fifth-class doctor, one more tree can be planted in front of her grave for each level. In other words, a five-level doctor can plant six trees in front of his grave. Being a soldier in the army, her husband is called a sergeant; The second-class title to the same title is called pawn; Doctors above the rank of doctor can be called generals. Generals with different titles have different numbers of guards to protect him.

Emperors' tombs are called mausoleums, such as Qiaoling of the Yellow Emperor, Qin Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Maoling of the Fifth Emperor of the Han Dynasty, Ganling of Tang Gaozong and Xiaoling of Ming Taizu. Cao Cao once said in the Narrative Order that his wish was to write on the tombstone after his death: the tomb of Cao Hou, the general of the Western Han Dynasty! But in the end, it was named Wei Wudi and buried as Gaoling. Besides being used by officials, tombs can also be used for joint burial. In the southwest of Tengchong County, Yunnan Province 1 km, the Japanese invaders 148 United officers and men were buried, so they were specially named Japanese Tomb! In addition, after the death of a celebrity, you can also use the clothes in front of you to build a tomb. This is called a cenotaph! The tomb of a saint is not a tomb, nor a mausoleum, but a forest: in Luoyang, the tomb with Guan Yu's head buried is called Guan Lin, the tomb of Confucius is called Kong Lin, and the tomb of Mencius is called Meng Lin.