Facing down, it is the Nine-Curved Creek, which bends in the blue water; facing upwards, it is the water peak, and the mountain rock is towering; in the middle, the water surface slides over the stone surface, and there is no foothold at all. However, on the side of this extremely dangerous water cliff, a black-gray coffin was hanging in the air. Who climbed the cliff? Why are hundreds of pounds of coffins hung on a cliff in mid-air?
Three or four thousand years ago, this place was the habitat of the ancient Yue people. The ancient Yue people had a peculiar burial custom of hanging coffins and cliff burials, which is obviously different from the traditional Chinese burial, which is to bury the deceased in a cave carved out of a steep cliff.
Why? It turned out that the ancient Yue people revered the gods, and they thought that the higher the place, the closer they were to the gods. If the deceased can be placed on a high mountain, they will not be disturbed by future generations and will better protect the people. The idea of the ancient Yue people was so wonderful, how did they hang the hundred-pound coffin safely and completely on the cliff?
It is said that one is to chisel the coffin, the end of the coffin lid of the round hole through the rope, from the back of the gentle slope to transport the coffin up the mountain, at this time the craftsmen have chiseled the cave in advance or drilled into the wooden stake, at the top of the cliff, the ancient Yue people work together to slowly hang the coffin weighing 100 pounds, by the people below to meet the suspension flat. Another way is that they first chisel a straight passage along the cliff wall and push the coffins forward in turn, so that several coffins can be placed in a centralized manner. This undoubtedly saves a lot of trouble compared to the previous method. The strange burial customs of the ancient Yue people have left a puzzling mystery for future generations, and also left a valuable historical relic.
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