The sheng shui yan tan lu is a literary sketche in Northern Song Dynasty period. It recorded the rich historical stories, and collected a large amount of vocabulary. Some records of folk funeral story has a lot of vocabulary associated with funerals, for example vocabulary of tombs such as Cong zhong, Mu ci; vocabulary of mourning such as Cui die, Mo cui, Ju ma; vocabulary of in mourning such as Cheng zhong, Lu mu. To study this kind of vocabulary is beneficial to understand the period of northern song dynasty folk customs and the folk funeral cultures. At the same time, we can enhance the understanding of the evolution of vocabulary.