The class ideology of ancient China was very clear, for different people
Died
There are different ways to say it.
For example, the death of the empress is called bun, while the death of ordinary concubines can only be called 薨; the death of the minister is called a pawn, and the death of the poor people can only be called death.
Just one person disappeared from the world, the ancients can have so many statements, which shows that the ancients regarded their own death as very important. The mausoleum project of the princes and nobles was very large, especially some ethnic minorities in the south at that time, who chose to bury themselves in the way of "hanging coffins".
The secret of the hanging coffin is also difficult for a large number of archaeologists, and finally can only offer a reward of 400,000 in the hope that someone can give an answer.
The mystery of the hanging coffin overwhelmed the archaeological community
There is a Dragon Tiger Mountain in Jiangxi that is very famous, not only because of its beautiful scenery, but also because of the cliffs and cliffs on the mountain
。 Paddle a small boat in the lake under the Dragon Tiger Mountain to Xianshui Rock, and look up there are many caves of different sizes, which are actually the tombs of the ancient Yue people.
Xianshui Rock is very well located, and there are many natural caves with smooth rock surfaces that are good places for security hanging coffins.
These caves fill almost the entire surface of the rock, the highest cave is thousands of meters high, and the lowest distance is hundreds of meters from the water.
Such a high distance is daunting. With the development of modern technology, we have finally been able to come here for archaeological excavations and unveil the mystery of hanging coffins that have been hidden for thousands of years.
Archaeological excavations have unearthed many funerary cultural relics, and the treasures are of great value. However, with the advancement of archaeological excavations, people can't help but have doubts, such a high place, people have to go up very hard, not to mention more than 100 pounds of coffins to get up.
So how exactly did the ancients put these things into the cave? This problem has always bothered archaeologists at that time, and many archaeologists have since joined the team of the Mystery of the Hanging Coffin, but many years later, there is still no clue.
In the end, the state offered a reward of 400,000 yuan, hoping that someone could solve this difficult problem of the archaeological community, but a long time has passed, and no one can give a reasonable explanation for the mystery of the hanging coffin. Just when people think no one can understand,
An old farmer said that the ancients used pulley sets to transport the coffin to the cliff.
Such an answer seems to make a lot of sense at first, but in fact, after careful consideration, I find that it is impossible.
Regardless of whether there was such a device as a pulley thousands of years ago, even if there was such a device at that time and it was not recorded, there could not have been a rope that could withstand hundreds of pounds of weight to hang the coffin
。 In this way, the old farmer's statement was denied by experts, and the mystery of the hanging coffin is still an unsolved mystery.
Hanging coffins are not exclusive to the princes and nobles
There are many nationalities in our country, and different ethnic groups have different cultures. As far as funeral culture is concerned, the Central Plains people pay attention to the burial of the earth for safety, and most of them use the form of burial or cremation.
However, some ethnic minorities do not think so, such as the Tibetans, who use water burial and sky burial. The ancient Yue people on the mainland are even more bizarre, and the funeral method they adopt is hanging coffin burial.
"Hanging coffin burial", as the name suggests, is to hang a person's coffin on a wooden stake on a cliff cliff, some of which are hidden in the cliff cave, and some of which are half,
There is no special statement about this way of putting coffins for the time being, and it may just rely on different burial environments. The hanging coffin is not only noticeable in terms of the burial site, but even the way the coffin is placed is very surprising.
According to different geographical environments, hanging coffins can be roughly divided into 6 ways. One of the most common is the cliff cave type, which only needs to make full use of the natural cliff cracks and then slightly repair it.
The most "sloppy" is the cliff edge type, which is mostly buried in coastal areas, because there are often narrow cliff edges on the coast to form a natural platform, and shrubs can be placed directly on it.
Seeing that the environment of hanging coffins was so dangerous, many people had thought that this burial method was exclusive to some princes and nobles, because they were afraid that their tombs would be stolen before choosing such a funeral.
However, no matter how mysterious and dangerous the hanging coffin is, this burial method is not exclusive to the princes and nobles.
After all, there is no shortage of wealth of princes and nobles, they are very willing to spend money to build a luxurious mausoleum for themselves, so that they can enjoy the glory of their lives after death.
Moreover, in order not to let his tomb be stolen, Qin Shi Huang first designed several cemeteries, and no one knew where he was buried.
Then he ordered the establishment of multiple organs in his tomb, and the problem that money could solve was not a problem at all in the eyes of these princes and nobles. Since the problem of tomb robbery does not exist, why should anyone still take this way to bury?
Hanging coffins are buried in faith
Experts speculate that hanging coffins are not a burial method to prevent tomb robbers, but to prevent the remains of deceased people from being damaged. Because most of the ethnic minorities in the south have ancestor worship, and ancestor worship originates from ghost worship.
Although the word ghost is mentioned, we are more or less afraid, but it is not so much fear as faith. People believed that the souls of their ancestors could bless future generations with peace and well-being, so they wanted to enshrine the souls of their ancestors.
When man is alive, the soul depends on his own body,
If the body is destroyed after death, the soul will lose its support and have nowhere to put it.
In order to be able to enshrine the souls of the ancestors, it is necessary to avoid the corpses from being damaged by wild beasts or man, so it is easy to achieve this purpose by using the burial method of hanging coffins.
On the one hand, most of the places where the coffins are buried are cliffs, and large beasts certainly cannot come to these places to destroy, even if people want to destroy, they can only be deterred in the face of such cliffs.
On the other hand, hanging coffins are also buried by the water
It is believed that water is the origin of all things, and burying the remains of the deceased here will help him to ascend to bliss early.
In addition, in the Tang Dynasty Zhang Hu's "ChaoYe You Zai", it is recorded that "Migao thought it was filial piety",
That is to say, the higher the deceased is buried, the more filial piety to them can be reflected.
Today
Indonesians still use the method of hanging coffin burial, they also believe that the higher the coffin of the deceased, the better, the higher the coffin, the longer the body is preserved.
The closer the dead get to Elysium. Only the deceased relatives who have ascended to bliss early can bless the living children.
Why do people use hanging coffins to bury, and how do more than 100 pounds of hanging coffins enter the cave?
None of this has an accurate answer.
And all we can do is to make bold guesses based on only a few words in ancient books, and then to argue our guesses, believing that one day in the future, someone will solve this difficult problem in the archaeological community.