What is the difference between a thick burial and a thin burial in ancient times?

The coffin is different, and the things buried with it are different.

Thick burials

(1) The "thick" in this thick burial has two meanings: 1) the richness of the burial, which means that the burials were accompanied by a large number of exquisite costumes and artifacts. 2) the construction of the grave, which is the same as that of the burial. The second is about the construction of the grave. This thick refers to the deep burial and build a high mound.

(2) Sui and Tang dynasties, the folk prevalent thick burial The systematization and completeness of the funeral festival, roughly Funeral customs have been affecting the hearts of the Chinese wind, seven seven fast, Feng Shui, return to the burial and other customs In the Zhou Dynasty has been completed. Some scholars have pointed out that, in the Zhou Dynasty, the customs of thick burials and thin burials were alternately changed. Popular.

Funeral etiquette in this period gradually "funeral etiquette, are rectified in the Zhou." Funeral rituals were institutionalized, hierarchical and legalized, and tended to become one of the "five rites" of ancient times. The rituals of mourning were gradually institutionalized, hierarchized and legalized, and tended to become one of the five ancient rites. Sui and Tang Dynasty tombs noble Spring and Autumn and Autumn and Warring States Period, China's traditional funeral etiquette of the origin of the hierarchy is often associated with the status of the owner of the tomb Confucian funeral etiquette gradually formed.

Thin Burials

(1) Burials and funeral rites were simple and frugal. Xunzi Zhenglun: "In the ancient times, the coffin was three inches thick, and the burial clothes were three collars thick." Han Wang Chong, "Lun Heng - Thin Burials": "The industry of the wise and the holy is all about thin burials and saving money." Ming Shen Defu "wild access to editing - rebels - hair mound": "such as Wang Jinggong Qing bitter, no thick burial material ...... Nanjing eunuch Shi Yan, camping life cave, the bitter lack of large bricks, or dedication, the cloud near the ancient mound bricks oddly large. So I dismantled to fill the use, see its Jie is Kai Fu also, then thin burial also suffer disaster."

(2) Mozi put forward "decorate the people's affairs, the rules of the people," that is, the so-called "thin burials, saving money" idea; legal Han Feizi also advocated that the deceased "winter winter clothes, summer summer clothes, three inches of the Tung coffin, the mourning two days! "; East Han philosopher Wang Chong also criticized the thick burial, "heavy death without regard to life, all the money to serve God, empty home to send Luo", that "thin burial to save", "can be a thin burial carry on".