China's five-thousand-year history and civilization, people in this time, cultivated many unique cultures, some cultures have been handed down to this day, the culture of burial after death, is very exquisite, especially in ancient times.
After death, in order to pay tribute to the deceased and let his soul rest in peace, posterity built a tombstone for him, and many funerary items will be put in, which are all expressions of the reverence of future generations for the deceased. And in ancient times, there were many ways to be buried.
People have concluded that the most common burial methods in ancient times were water burial, earth burial, and heavenly burial with religious overtones. But now, the way of burial has gradually become more complicated and simplified, and most people choose to use cremation to bury themselves.
In ancient times, there was also a special way of burial, that is, cliff burial, people carried the coffins of the deceased to many cliffs, and also dug out the position on the cliffs that could be put into the coffin. But for ancient technology is not developed, there are not a lot of tools to help people dig, then how did the ancients do it?
Cliff tombs in ancient mainland China were mostly popular burial methods for ethnic minorities, and the most surprising thing for everyone was that they could actually hang many coffins on a cliff that was hundreds of meters high.
The coffins were then transported in a special way to the long-dug holes in the cliffs for burial, and those ethnic minorities were buried in this way for generations, and over time they became the famous "hanging coffins".
Not only can it prevent the erosion of wind, frost, rain and snow, but it can also be kept secret, and those outside the ethnic minorities cannot crack the mysteries of those hanging coffins, and can only look up to their ingenious tomb groups.
The history of cliff coffins can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Warring States period two thousand years ago, and some experts believe that ancient people placed coffins in these caves to prevent corpses from being taken away by wild beasts, and to bless the soul forever, and the soul can be closer to heaven, but how these coffins are placed on high cliffs is still a mystery.
Today, in Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi, there are more than 100 hanging coffins here, and experts visit the villages near Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi to find traces. An important clue was obtained from the mouth of a farmer who remembered that his ancestors had said that the hanging coffin was transported by a "crane", and the experts understood it in an instant and verified it in practice.
Using the pulley principle, the long-arm fixed pulley was installed on the cliff cliff, and then the coffin was successfully sent into the cave of the cliff, and through the field test, the scene of the hanging coffin transported to the cliff was reproduced, which proved that the "crane" theory was correct, and I had to admire the wisdom of the ancients after watching it.
In addition to the method of building the boardwalk, a large part of the population believes that the area where these cliff coffins are located is generally distributed in the south.
Thousands of years ago, there was probably a large number of waters in the south, and these hanging coffins were probably installed in the cliffs by means of water transport, but now the vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry fields, after the tide receded, only the countless coffins in the cliffs were left, which amazed future generations.
Another theory is that the coffins that stand on the cliffs are suspended directly from the cliffs using the method of suspension.
Large trees may have been common in ancient times, but the only thing that makes people wonder is how the coffin hanging in the cliff is inserted into the hole.