What Happens to Tombstones Over Time?

Tombstones are gradually transformed from practical articles into cultural works of art, and their functions, forms, textures and decorations are also more diversified. Celebrity Granite Tombstones more pay attention to the stele body with high quality stone such as hua Gang rock, marble, the top of the monument has a statue of the dead or in the center of the monument inlaid with the porcelain of the dead. The tombstone became a badge of honor and decoration to record the lineage of the deceased's family and deeds of merit. This is very in line with the Chinese people to honor their ancestors, benefit the future generations, immortal social customs.  

In order not to be affected by wind, rain, sun and other natural erosion and man-made damage, they put the tablet table stand outside the tomb, epitaph and inscription buried in the tomb. Gravestones prevailed in the Han and Tang dynasties and later became the norm.  

Gravestones are usually natural or artificial stone, made of marble-granite.  

Modern foreign tombstone belongs to sculpture. In terms of design, tombstone is mainly regarded as an integral part of the cemetery, reflecting the functions, elements, basic planning and design theory, ecological design methods and management and operation of the cemetery. 

The theoretical study of cemetery planning and design has been quite mature in foreign countries. In 1959, the Japanese government issued the planning and design standards for cemeteries, including cemetery configuration, scale and facilities. In Germany, the university set up a cemetery major, three years of schooling, the history, culture, cemetery design research. American landscape architect Adolph Strauch founded the American Cemetery Management Association in 1887 and proclaimed the professionalization of Cemetery designers through Modern Cemetery in F.J.Haight (1890).