Stone Lanterns in front of the Tomb

I didn’t notice there was a stone lantern near the tomb.
It was strange why I did not acknowledge the existence of such a magnificent thing near the tomb.

There stood 2 stone lanterns by the road. At first, I thought them as the lanterns of Buddhist temple. But they were not Buddhist.

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Why did they make the stone lanterns in front of the tomb ?
May be people’d like to keep the tomb in light environment not to leave their ancestors in the darkness.

As getting close to the lantern, I found out the pattern on the lantern was quite different from Buddhist lantern.

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The pattern on the lantern looked strange to me.
I didn’t see the pattern like that before.
There were two stone lanterns, but the patterns seemed same.
It looked like a flower, but it was hard to say what it was exactly.
In my guess, the pattern might be related to the death.
I need to figure it out what the pattern means.

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