Ancient Chinese Culture

Hanging coffin was a mysterious funeral and sacrifice custom for some minority groups in southern China.

Most coffins were made of a whole piece of wood into various shapes. There are coffins which were placed on wooden beams projecting out from rocks; on the rocks themselves; merely placed in caves high up a cliff face; or suspended on wooden stakes above the ground or stuck into the cliff face.

The earliest record for the funeral practice dated back to 2,500 years ago at Three Gorges. Nowadays, we still can find hanging coffins in this district.

Why the ancient people bury the dead with this funeral? How did they achieve some of the engineering feats such as placing coffins so high? These are still the unsolved mysteries.

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