清代江南地区盛行停棺不葬习俗,浮厝棺柩存在浅土厝与砖厝等型式。由于江南地区同时存在浅葬与浮葬的习俗,使得浮厝之棺具有特殊的意义,在一定程度上具有似葬非葬的属性,与墓葬难以区分。浅土厝尤为明显。在清代司法实践中,甚至将其作为墓葬对待。砖厝因与传统上“覆土为坟”的观念相悖,在正统观念中是作为浮厝存在的。不过,它在一定程度上也作为一种葬式存在,表现出一定的特殊性。 In the Qing Dynasty, the prevailing practice in the south of the Yangtze River stopped the coffin without funeral customs. There are types of shallow houses and brick houses in floating coffins. Due to the common practice of shallow burial and floating funeral in the southern part of the Yangtze River, the coffin of the floating house has special significance. To a certain extent, it has the property of burial and non-burial, which is indistinguishable from the burial. Shallow soil house is particularly evident. In the judicial practice in the Qing Dynasty, it was even treated as a grave. Brick houses, contrary to the traditional notion of “covering the earth as a grave,” exist in the orthodox notion as floating houses. However, it also exists to some extent as a kind of burial, showing a certain degree of particularity.