"Suddenly like a spring breeze in the night, thousands of trees and pear blossoms" In ancient times, the place west of Yumen Pass and Yangguan was generally called "Western Regions". In 139 BC, Zhang Qian was ordered by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to send an envoy to the Western Regions to jointly fight against the Xiongnu in the countries of the United Western Regions. He set out with more than a hundred people, crossed the Yellow River, entered the vast desert, relied on the sun and stars to discern the direction, day and night to avoid the Xiongnu, but was still discovered, and finally, Zhang Qian was placed under house arrest on the grassland to graze, during this time, he learned the Xiongnu dialect, silently wrote down the terrain, and finally escaped in a dark night, along the way, they endured the heat and thirst, crossed the desert Gobi, over the snow-capped mountains of the Pamir Plateau, and finally reached the countries of the Western Regions.
On this huge planet, there are many countries, and each country has a very large number of peoples, and the civilizations between each nation are not very different, including the funeral culture. In China, some different ethnic groups like to be buried on the cliffs after death, which has the origin of the hanging coffin.
Chinese experts spent 400,000 yuan to find the answer to the ancient "mystery of the hanging coffin", and the last old farmer gave a way to solve it.
China is a huge country with fifty-six nationalities, and the funeral culture between various ethnic groups is also different, for example, the Han people pay attention to the burial of the earth, but among other ethnic minorities, there are also funerals full of national colors, such as heavenly burials.
On The Dragon and Tiger Mountain in Yingtan City, Jiangxi Province, there are 202 hanging coffins.
Located in Jiangxi Province, Longhu Mountain is well known to the world because of its Taoist origin, and many people will go to this mountain every year to burn incense in order to make the new year smooth, and with the passage of time,
The popularity of Dragon Tiger Mountain is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people are going to burn incense and pray, which also casts a mysterious color on this mountain.
What attracts the world in Dragon and Tiger Mountain is not only the numerous Taoist architecture and culture, but also the hanging coffins from its cliffs.
On this cliff, there are two hundred and two hanging coffins, and the origin of these hanging coffins is unknown to both locals and researchers.
But what is certain is that the history of these hanging coffins is very long from us, then, in the face of such a dangerous terrain, how the ancients put the coffin in the cave, who was buried in the coffin, why should this be used as a burial place, one question after another bothered people,
In order to solve these puzzles, the Longhushan Tourism Bureau took out hundreds of thousands of yuan as a bounty prize and called on the world's able people to come and answer.
In fact, not only in Longhu Mountain, but also in other provinces in the south of the mainland can also see the hanging coffin, but the hanging coffin group of Longhu Mountain is the most typical, and the so-called
The hanging coffin burial method is a burial method that sends craftsmen to insert nails in a hole in the cliff before the person dies, and then puts the coffin into the hole after the person dies
This was an important funerary method for ancient ethnic minorities in the south.
The earliest investigation of this funerary method can be traced back to 1978, when Jiangxi Province set up an archaeological research team for this purpose, and after overturning its own inferences again and again,
With several old medicine farmers who often climb the cliff, the team finally made the decision to use moso bamboo to build a shelf to explore the cliff cave.
After successfully entering the cave, in the thirteenth cliff cave with more hanging coffins, the archaeological team searched for and brought out some altar jars, and then sent these items to the cultural relics identification center for identification, and the result report showed them
The master is a Baiyue people from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period more than 2,600 years ago.
After solving the puzzle of the owner of the cliff cave, many new questions came to the archaeologists.
In that era when technology was not developed, how did people put these hundreds of kilograms of coffins into the cliff, and even if they were put into the cliff, how did they ensure that these coffins would not move in the years before? The archaeological team once again analyzed these issues, unfortunately, and
There was no evidence to prove their conjecture, and the events gradually went into the unknown.
At this time, in 1997, the Dragon Tiger Mountain Tourism Group once again asked the society for help with a reward of 300,000 yuan, but even if the amount was raised to 400,000 later, there was no reasonable answer.
With experts helpless, an old farmer whose ancestors have lived near Longhu Mountain for generations gave the archaeological team a little inspiration.
With the documents and information in hand and the information provided by the old farmers,
Professors at Tongji University in Shanghai modeled on an ancient hoisting machine and personally operated on the site at Longhu Mountain
After its success, it caused a warm response at home and abroad. But the success of the lifting machine does not say anything,
Because on the peak of Longhu Mountain, there is no trace of the use of it by predecessors, such a huge machine, even under the wind and rain of thousands of years, should retain a trace of imprint.
Unless the Baiyue people more than two thousand years ago already had more advanced technology, they were able to transfer the coffin into the tomb without leaving a trace, in response to this problem,
In 2013, the Dragon tiger mountain scenic spot tourism group even offered a reward of one million yuan for people who could crack it, but today, most of them have obtained unfounded conclusions.
As an ancient civilization with a long history, the innovation ability of the ancients really surprised people, whether it is the huge project of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, or the mystery of the Dragon and Tiger Mountain, every place reveals the wisdom of the ancients, when faced with these incredible ruins, people can only do a sigh.
Perhaps with the development and progress of science and technology, people will solve the mystery in the future.
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