Reading Tombs: Tombs and Etiquette in the Southern Song Dynasty
by Zheng Jiali
About This Novel
As a kind of man-made space, tombs are not only a display space for the evolution of skills such as architectural construction and artifact production, but also a stage for the competition of ideas and concepts such as family ethics and funeral customs. It is also the result of social politics, economic development, technological evolution, and changes in ideas and concepts. This book takes the tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty and related issues as the research object, takes the Southern Song Dynasty as the center, starts from the field, and uses the tombs as the fulcrum, seeking the possibility of comprehensive integration of field and documents, archeology and history. In the long historical development context, it explores and reveals the inheritance and changes of the tomb system, social etiquette, and ideological concepts, and gives the archeology of the tombs of the Southern Song Dynasty a relatively systematic academic value.
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