我国自秦汉以降建筑墓室的材料主要使用陶砖。汉代砖室墓流行,汉人除了在砖上模印大量花纹以外,还模印或锲刻许多文字,这些文字或纪年、记工匠名,或为吉祥语,但也有相当一部分是记录墓主情况的。晚清学者王振铎在《汉代圹砖集录》一书中曾将汉代墓砖约分五种,曰条砖(长方砖)、方砖(铺砖)、志砖、杂砖、圹砖(空砖)。其分类标准虽不统一,志砖按功能分,其他按形制分,但也指出了汉砖中有专门志墓葬者。以砖志墓这一作法自汉代起 China’s construction materials from the Qin and Han Dynasties tomb of the main use of ceramic tiles. Han tomb tomb popular, in addition to a large number of Chinese masonry pattern in the brick, but also stamped or carved a lot of text, or chronology, artisan name, or auspicious language, but there is also a considerable part of the record of the situation of the tomb . Late Qing scholar Wang Zhenduo in the “Han Dynasty 圹 brocade set of books,” a book has been divided into about five Han Dynasty tomb tiles, said strip of brick (brick), brick (brick), Zhizhu, miscellaneous tiles, Empty brick). Although its classification criteria are not uniform, Zhizhu functional points, according to the other points, but also pointed out that the Han bricks have a special burial mound. Tomb of brick to this approach since the Han Dynasty