What do grave, tomb, mound and mausoleum all mean? What is the difference?

In ancient times, the living living place has a hierarchical division? Civilian, official residence, the king's residence, the palace, however, is the same in heaven, there is the emperor collapsed, the king's princeling, the official died, the officials do not pay, the people died, and the grave, the tomb, the mound, the mausoleum is the belonging to the heavenly saying, Fukuiwang talk about it for you one by one.

In ancient times, when a civilian died, the mound where he was buried was a grave. Fukunori here to say a word, today all burials called what what tomb, strictly speaking, are wrong, the accurate statement is the grave. However, there is no longer a hierarchy of graves. In addition to the grave in ancient times there are people who have been wronged called grave, because the grave has a raised mound of earth, implying that there is a wrongdoing. The style of the grave is that the pit below is square and the mound above is conical (or cylindrical), which has the meaning of heaven and earth.

Tomb: a mound without a rise.

The rise and fall of the people are suffering, so the people are graves. Why? The people are the graves of the people! The richer merchants, petty officials, soldiers, intellectuals, etc., they are basically the bottom beneficiaries of the dynasty, so they are not wronged, so the tombs are flat. However, this is the distant ancient times, to the later as long as the general rich and noble family immortalized, their burial place are called tombs. Let me give you an example. In the West and in Japan, the graves are flat, but there is a tombstone on top. This was a typical tomb in ancient times. And the graves of the Qing soldiers buried in Osaka, Japan, are also on flat ground. But, strictly speaking? A tomb but not a grave? is not marked in any way, including planting trees and tombstones, this pre-Qin thing now.

Tsuka: tall grave

Tsuka is from ? 勹? From? A shackled pig. Not "" in "" (meaning "to" in Chinese). Ε???? No, it's not? A shackled pig? It means a tall grave. The resting place is for generals and eunuchs, and even the queens of ethnic minorities, such as Qingzuka, which is the tomb of the four great beauties, Wang Zhaojun. In addition, only buried with the deceased's crown, or nothing buried and erected a monument to the tall graves are called mounds, the former is the legendary clothes and crown mound, the latter is suspicious of the mound.

The famous burial mounds are the Yellow Emperor, Yang Guifei, Shi Kefa, Yuan Chonghuan, Sun Yat-sen, etc., Sun Yat-sen's burial mound in the north side of Xiangshan Park, Haidian District, Beijing, Biyun Temple. The more typical suspicious graves are Cao Cao's seventy-two suspicious graves. However, seventy-two suspicious graves is just a deceptive legend, experts confirmed that the so-called suspicious graves but the Northern Dynasties large ancient tomb complex, there are one hundred and thirty-four as many.

The mausoleum of a country's ruler (including individual vassal states) or the burial place of a country's lord.

The original meaning of mausoleum is a large earth mountain, to the middle of the Warring States period after the Qin, Chu and Zhao and other countries where the monarchs were buried called mausoleum. Later emperors were not only collectively called mausoleums, but also had different prefix characters with beautiful meanings to differentiate them. Fukui feels that the princes after the Han Dynasty might also be called mausoleums, such as the mausoleum of King Liang Xiaowang and the mausoleum of the first king of the Ming Dynasty, King Lu Arao.

The tombs of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor are also called mausoleums, but their tombs are not even cloak and dagger mounds, at most they are suspicious mounds, or later inventions. Yuan Shikai, who was bent on being quite the emperor, died in a tomb known as the Lin, as well as the tombs of Confucius, Guan Yu and Zhang Zuolin. While the tomb of Sun Yat-sen, who was firmly opposed to the emperor, is known as the Mausoleum of Sun Yat-sen. Of course some of them were added the name Zhongshan Mausoleum. Later, in order to honor the martyrs, we also called the tombs of the martyrs as Martyrs' Mausoleum. The mausoleum finally went from the emperor to the people.