Why is the place where saints are buried called the forest? For example, Kong Lin and Guan Lin.

Lin is the general name of ancient family cemeteries in China. This name is not limited to the cemetery of saints, but also includes the family cemetery of ordinary people. Just because the sages have a prominent family background, emperors have benefited from it, so there are many officials. Family cemetery has a very rich history and cultural accumulation, and its family cemetery enjoys a high standard of garden equipment, which is comparable to that of ordinary people. Therefore, the family cemeteries of most saints are well known, such as Kong Lin, Menglin and Guanlin.

Private ownership of land has been practiced in China for thousands of years. Therefore, only those families who are well-off and well-off will have their own family cemeteries. Most destitute people without land and families with little land have not harvested enough food to feed their families. Of course, there is no extra land for the dead to sleep in, so they have no financial strength to build and set up their own family cemetery. So up to now, many families don't have their own ancestral graves, which is the reason.

The graves of ordinary people are also called "forests", such as Zhang Jialin, Li Jialin, Xinjialin and Jia Jialin. It is the ancestral graves and family cemeteries of these families.