The ancestral tombstone reads: "The Qing emperor gave a gift to the elderly, but this gift will be given to the children". Can someone explain what this means? I really appreciate it.

"The Qing emperor gave gifts to the elderly, but he wanted to give them to his children" means that the court sympathized with the elderly in their sixties and seventies and gave gifts to the elderly and their children.

Inscription introduction

The size of the inscription on the tombstone should conform to the auspicious figures on Lubanchi. Usually, the large characters are 10cm or 10.5cm, and the small characters are between 3cm and 4cm. 10cm into the treasure. 10.5cm Fu Na. 3cm wealth. 4cm was admitted to the department. The size of these words is in harmony with the proportion of the monument, and it also contains auspicious meaning. The family of the tomb owner can get psychological comfort from it.

Tombstones are made of marble and white marble, which can't stand the wind and rain and are easily weathered. Now it is replaced by granite series, which is exquisite, bright and hard. Among the granite with rich colors and solid texture, Indian red, pearl white and Shanxi black are most favored by customers. Indian red symbolizes noble, gorgeous and fiery years and brilliant career; Pearl white symbolizes purity, elegance, gorgeous life and endless sorrow; Shanxi Black symbolizes the solemn, dignified and immortal spirit and deep homesickness.

Tombstones are rich in writing content. Including geomantic omen, native place, name, identity, date of birth, date of death, descendants, monuments, burial or reburial date.