According to the burial custom, most areas implement the first burial method, but some areas and ethnic groups also implement the second burial method or multiple reburial methods. There are also differences in burial forms and characteristics among different nationalities and historical periods in China.
During the Shang Dynasty in China, it was the peak of heavy burial and extravagant sacrifices. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, the size of tombs, the number of coffin layers, the types of funerary objects and many provinces were all stipulated according to the ritual system. In the middle and late Warring States period, the mausoleum system centered on the monarch began to take shape, and the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang began to be built immediately after he ascended the throne, with a huge scale. By the Han Dynasty, Sheng Xing's theory of choosing Feng Shui cemetery was basically abolished, and pottery and lacquerware were the main ones. To the Three Kingdoms, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, it gradually evolved into a thin burial. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, there has been a custom of sealing civil tombs on tombs, which was widely implemented after the Han Dynasty. The main burial forms are: vertical tomb, stone tomb, urn coffin burial, sarcophagus burial, brick tomb, cave tomb, wooden coffin burial and so on. The form of joint burial of husband and wife began in the pre-Qin period and has been popular in modern times since the Han Dynasty. "Poetry Feng Wang Che": "Valley is a different room, and death is the same point." "Book of Rites on Tan Gong": "Buried people also hide. If you hide, you will see what you want from others. " "Confucius has been buried with his parents, just in case. Said,' I know everything.' So I sealed it and worshipped it for four feet. "