The cremation of the Jurchen nobles in the Jin dynasty mainly used wooden coffinsw,ooden boxes or stone letters to collect ashes  Cremation has always been popular among the Jurchens in the Jin dynasty  However,the shikeng cremation tombs in the Jinyuan area in the early Jin dynasty and those after the mid-Jin dynasty There are essential differences between the various types of cremation tombs  The former is a legacy of Jurchen's old customs, and the latter is influenced by buddhism  In the middle and late Jin dynasty, after the Jurchens occupied the Yellow River Basin, buddhism has become very popular among the Han people
Cultural exchanges between the Jurchen and Han nationalities in the Jin dynasty are very frequent
 This shows that the Jin dynasty  funeral custom of the Jurchens nobles has been sinicized