When Did Gravestones Became Popular?

Our Cemetery Gravestones gu Mingsi meaning, it is Chinese family tombstone, so what is called Chinese family grave card? Is it a classical style new Chinese Gravestones plate? Actually not, modern China inclusive of the Upright Gravestones has been completely out of the classical Chinese style style, many tombstones art have crossed the border, become the popular style tombstone culture and art in the world, said an exaggeration, of course, but many countries in east Asia and southeast Asia Upright Gravestones of people who share the same art form is with China, so these countries will be widely used. This article through the Chinese tombstone development course and the Chinese tombstone shape evolution to carry on the narration.  

The Cemetery Gravestones of culture and art in our country begin to produce best in slavery, the period hierarchical hierarchical, rich and powerful slave owners can expect their immortality, living conditions have been looking for the secret life of yuan, found that after a long way off, then please take second place, are looking forward to their own can also have rich daily life after death, strong power and high status.  

Why should there be such a thing after death? Animals, clay figures, bronze, living people, and even large amounts of gold, silver and jewelry were buried with the slave owners. During this period, tombs had powerful patterns, characters symbolizing power and knowledge, and lofty and atmospheric tombs symbolizing status, which formed the earliest Chinese Upright Gravestones culture. The tombstone, in this period, officially entered the stage of history.  

The gravestones in this period were placed in front of the tomb. "The front is the monument, and the back is the tomb" was the specific position at that time. In terms of the selection of monument materials, wooden tablets were the mainstream. The main reason was that carving skills were not developed at that time.  

Time to transition to the feudal society, as a result of tombstones are tooling before, a lot of gold and silver treasure spawned the touch of gold a captain, the occurrence of the grave robbers, make people in the burglar's tomb and want to build more luxurious has the very big contradiction between the tomb, in between wandering, directly make Chinese Heart Gravestones culture began to change, reflect is one of the most obvious, The number of objects in the tombs was significantly reduced, and the more powerful the tombs were, the more hidden they were, and the less powerful people were, the less likely they were to put objects in the tombs to avoid the prying eyes of tomb robbers.  

Have to say is that it is the grave of the man, let whole tomb culture began to pay attention to the tombstone, rather than the grave goods, below such drive under, tombstone began to be processed is very good-looking, because the stone is not valuable, so less grave of peek, also had the embryonic form of classical Chinese art tombstone, tombstone start to design for this time of the boundary lines, patterns, characters, Especially after the creation of wei Bei typeface and Official script typeface, combined with tombstone writing, this kind of antique charm shows the charm of Chinese characters incisively and vividly, has been handed down to the present. In the period of the republic of China, a lot of overseas study, returned overseas Chinese compatriots, accepted the new tomb culture outside, come back to your family's tombstone with a new idea and design, this is China's tomb began an important period of combination of Chinese and western, this time, Japanese tombstones, European headstones American tombstone of imitated by Chinese people, But there are still a large number of traditional Chinese who cannot accept the change of tombstones.  

Different Slant Gravestones cultural cognition between the two sides is different, under the impact of all the year round, who also can't convince who, but the Chinese civilization has a great inclusive, eventually formed the tombstone began to join the western art and Chinese culture, and constantly the essence of western tomb culture part, such as black stone tombstone made of board, It is a kind of culture to absorb Japanese tombstone, such as some European complex line line lines, curve lines, broken lines, asymmetric lines and so on, are extracted from European tombstone, is also a period of Chinese tombstone art into new ideas, rapid change.  

The most rapid development and the most thorough reform of Chinese tombstones came after the reform and opening up, especially after the funeral reform in 1997, when tombstones began the process of shape reform and thorough mass production. The first aspect of the change was that gravestones began to be used in a large number of cemeteries, and the size was greatly limited. Because of this limitation, the whole gravestones were basically finalized in terms of specifications, so there was a basis for mass production. Therefore, in a long period of time, the main driving force of Chinese tombstone style reform has shifted from cities to rural areas. A large number of rural people abide by filial piety and pursue large and luxurious tombs, so that the Slant Gravestones culture will not appear fault.  

In recent years, gravestones and carried out a transformation in our country, the current policy is issued in 2019 to begin with, countries due to the cemetery of rare resources, has just started to do further restricted to the cemetery, in the past 2-3 square meters cemetery, now not only occupies 1 square area, and ratio of tomb brand, always have limited wide, since then, Small and medium-sized tomb plaques will become popular tombstones.  

How to make small and medium-sized Gravestones nameplate beautiful and generous? In fact, this is the development trend of tombstone development trend in the future - plastic art grave card, firmly believe that the future Chinese grave card must be the outbreak of plastic art tombstone stage, less than ten years, more is twenty years, plastic art tombstone will be the popular tombstone style of our tombstone, will also promote the development of tomb card culture and art in the future.