Excuse me, where is the hanging coffin?
The rock wall is smooth and flat, and Luxi River is at the foot of the rock. The cliff near the water is covered with all kinds of caves, including more than 2500 coffins 100 of ancient Yue people in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with a burial height of 20-50 meters. On a huge rock wall, caves are dotted. Looking out from Luxi River's boat or the ground, you can vaguely see the hole, nail stakes or sealing plates, and many places can see the scene of "Tibetan coffins storming half". Because these caves are too high for anyone to enter, what they contain has been a mystery for centuries. It was not until the late 1970s that Jiangxi archaeologists used hanging baskets and ladders to enter the caves, which solved the mystery. After the stone examiner entered the cave, the hanging coffin burial was scientifically cleaned and a large number of relics were unearthed. Burial system prevails in cliff burial and mass burial. In Shuiyan, Xianyan, Xiannv Rock, Guziyan and other places, there are dozens to dozens of cliff-cave tombs in every place. In this cliff-point tomb, there are several types, such as single-point single burial, single-point group burial and combined-point group burial. Among them, Tomb No.79 12, with a cave width of more than 50 meters, has a huge tomb with ten coffins, which is obviously the burial place of big families in past dynasties. Hanging coffins are oblate, cylindrical, rectangular, covered and roof-shaped, and most of them are cut and hollowed out by giant wood. Most of the wood is nanmu. The funerary objects are mostly bronze ritual vessels, weapons, pottery, bamboo and wood, bone jade, stone tools and so on. Avoid using metal appliances. The hanging coffin in Guixi is the representative of hanging coffin burial in Wuyishan area, which can be traced back to the late Spring and Autumn Period 3000 years ago. It is an ancient funeral custom of Ganyue people who lived in the water system east of Lipeng at that time, and it is the origin of hanging funeral popular in many provinces and regions south of the Yangtze River, Taiwan Province Province and some Pacific islands in China. There are a large number of hanging coffins and rich funerary wares here, which are of great scientific research value and have attracted the attention of scholars at home and abroad.
It is located in a secluded valley in the west of Xiaoshimen Village, 70km west of Ningwu City, Shanxi Province. There is a quiet alley deep in the canyon, with a stone wall at the entrance and lush trees in the alley. Ancient architecture experts think this is a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Archaeologists believe that the hanging coffins in Shimen are the earliest cliff burial groups found in the north of the Yangtze River, which has high archaeological research value.
3. North bank of Dengjiahe, Haitang Village, Cao Ying Township. The mountains overlap, with many castles and cottages built on them, and the hanging coffins are located on the rock wall of Suma Bay facing each other. There are 42 hanging coffins, 7 of which are placed in natural caves and rock piers.
4. The ancient cliff tombs before the Ming Dynasty are the national key cultural relics protection units. Mainly concerned with the hanging coffins of monks.
In Matangba and Suma Bay. It is characterized by putting the coffin of the deceased on the cliff. * * * There are 265 hanging coffins, which is the largest and most concentrated place in the door at present. The height of the coffin is generally from 10 m to 50 m, and the highest is 100 m. Coffin placement method: one is wooden pile type, that is, 2 ~ 3 holes are drilled on the cliff and wedged into wooden piles to support the coffin; The second type is digging holes, that is, digging horizontal holes or vertical holes in the rock wall to hold coffins; The third is to use the gap between natural caves and rock walls to hold coffins. The coffin head is big and the tail is small, mostly made of whole wood, which is fixed with snap buttons and tenons. Buried with straight limbs on the back, wrapped in linen and placed on both sides of the feet, the number of funerary objects is uncertain, including ceramics, wood and bamboo, iron and hemp fabrics, among which hemp fabrics are the most, with a small amount of silk fabrics. The clan of hanging coffin burial is controversial in academic circles, among which there are Bo people and modern people. Its era began in the unknown and ended in the Ming Dynasty.