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Time Period: From 100 A.D. to present. | Time Period: From 100 A.D. to present. | ||
{{Block indent|Transcription of information from tombstones dates from the Han dynasty or even earlier. The practice continues in Hong Kong and Taiwan. In urban areas separate cemeteries are usually maintained for permanent and temporary Chinese burials, Protestants, Roman Catholics, Muslims, and other religions. Cremated remains of Buddhists can also be found with abbreviated information in pagodas attached to Buddhist temples, monasteries or convents.}} | |||
Contents: Name of the deceased, wife’s name (often including given name); birth date and death date, date of burial, ancestral place of origin; often children and grandchildren’s names. Sometimes includes names of living sons and grandsons who set up the gravestone. Occasionally gravestones have even longer inscriptions which describe movements and migration of ancestors with more extensive genealogical information. | Contents: Name of the deceased, wife’s name (often including given name); birth date and death date, date of burial, ancestral place of origin; often children and grandchildren’s names. Sometimes includes names of living sons and grandsons who set up the gravestone. Occasionally gravestones have even longer inscriptions which describe movements and migration of ancestors with more extensive genealogical information. | ||
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