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Cliff burial is a kind of burial custom of burying people's remains in cliff caves or cliff walls, and it is also a kind of wind burial, that is, open burial.

An ancient burial method popular in the ethnic minority areas of southwest China in ancient times, including hanging coffin burial and cliff cave burial.

People put the coffin on the hewn cliff platform, or cut holes in the cliff and then drive into the wooden wedge, place the coffin on the wooden wedge, or put the coffin into the natural cave, the rock wall is carved with various patterns, inscriptions, etc.

A burial custom of burying the remains of a person in a cliff cave or cliff wall. It is a kind of wind burial, that is, open burial.

The custom of cliff burial has been prevalent among some people of the Pu, Yue, Ba, Wing, Han and other ethnic groups in ancient China.

The cliff burials have been recorded in the "Chronicles of the Soil of the Sea". The cliff burial of China is mainly in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In modern times, some of the Zhuang, Buyi, Miao, Yao, and Gelao peoples, as well as some Miao people in southwest Guizhou and the Yamei people of the Gaoshan people in Lanyu in Taiwan, are all buried in cliffs.

Cliff burial, also known as hanging coffin burial, is a special burial custom of the Puyue ethnic group who lived in the south in ancient China.

The burial method is to use natural rock crevices or artificial wooden stakes to suspend the coffin forest on the cliff, or to place the coffin forest in a natural or artificially hewn cave.

The burial place of the hanging coffin burial is selected on the cliff high rock facing the river, its burial tools are mostly general coffins, the length is two to three meters, the width is about half a meter, the shape is like one, it is divided into three parts: head, tail and warehouse, the head and tail are cocked, the warehouse is the coffin, and the corpse is placed.

According to Mr. Ling Chunsheng, the cliff burials in China are mainly in the two major regions, in the southeast region, in Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Fujian provinces, such as Wuyi Mountain and Railing Mountain, the cliff burials are about the remains of Shanyue, Ouyue and Minyue, which belong to the ancient Baiyue, the cliff burials in southwest China, and the relics left by them.

The living habits of the ancient Puyue people had a profound impact on their burial styles.

Throughout the burial tools of the cliff burial in China. Although there are many styles, the general coffin is a typical shape in the early days.

Judging from the excavations, the shape of the cliff burial coffins in the southeast is not as significant as that in the southwest. But they are all half-opened in a cylindrical forest, and the whole coffin resembles a canoe. This is also a type of boat, the primitive type of boat.

Gu Puyue was good at using a boat during his lifetime, and it was natural to use the boat as a coffin for burial after his death. A similar situation exists among the Samoans and Viet Nores of the South Pacific.

Since they were island families, they could not live unless they were ship, and the boat used by the deceased before their death was used as burial tools.

Therefore, the coffin in the shape of a boat should have originated from a canoe.

So. What is the relationship between the substitution of boats for coffins and the soul beliefs of the ancient Puyue people?

In fact, they use the ship as the vehicle for their souls.

The use of the boat as a coffin is the product of the belief in the soul of the Puyue people.

In their view, ships that are closely related to them will carry their souls back to their homeland or sail to another happy world.

Some of the SC ship coffins also have wooden coffins in the coffin, and the ship coffin plays the role of a coffin.

There is not only the body of Hansheng, but also the coat of the ship coffin, which strongly shows that in addition to the role of the general coffin, the ancient Puyue people also gave it the function of carrying the soul.

Send the soul of the dead to a proper place and not let it become entangled with the living. The best way to make trouble with the living is to lure the souls of the dead to their ancestors.

The view of the ancient Puyue people who used boats instead of coffins to send souls to the origin of their ancestors can be corroborated with the "soul boat" custom of the ancient southern peoples. Both the soul boat and the cliff burial use the boat as a tool for the deceased to return to the ancestors. The difference is that the soul boat carries the soul, and the birds guide it for it; Cliff burials are the direct delivery of corpses to caves on the cliffs.

It can be considered that the coffin is a more ancient form of the soul boat.

There are many kinds of burial facilities: wooden coffins, sarcophagi, pottery coffins and cloth bags are mostly used for burial corpses; Burial of bones or ashes is mostly done in small boxes, small letters and pottery urns. Some cliff burials are accompanied by cliff paintings, feasts or puppets. In the cliff burial places, some only have one or two burial tools, and some have dozens of burial tools. A number of burials in the same place are buried at the same time after the ceremony is held at the same time by the same clan or the village, and some are buried one after another, and then choose another place after the burial is completed.

There is an ancient rumor about cliff burials in the feng shui world.

Rumors, in ancient times. The ancestor of the She people, King Pang, married the three princesses of Emperor Gaoxin and had three boys and one girl. The family moved to Phoenix Mountain to hunt and farm.

Because the king of Pangu is born into the world with stars, he cannot be born. Death does not fall to the ground, so after his death, his children and grandchildren used wheels and ropes to place the coffin in a cave on the cliff face of Phoenix Mountain.

Its descendants have inherited it from generation to generation, forming the hanging coffin burial custom of the ancient She people.

The character "She" of the She ethnic group, written as the word "輋" in ancient times, also contains the meaning of this story: in Phoenix Mountain, after the death of a big man, the coffin was hung in a cliff cave with a wheel for burial.

If Su Jiu entered this stone cave, he would find that the aura fluctuations emanating from this stone cave had a slightly familiar feeling.

That's right, it was the dry corpse in the tomb in the Ghost Gate Killing Land in that clearing land, and the aura fluctuations exuded were similar.

However, Su Jiu has not entered here now.

If Su Jiu came here and saw this qiē, he would definitely be surprised in his heart.

Here in hn province, there are cliff burials near Huaxia*.

This in itself is unreasonable.

It's just that at this moment, Su Jiu and Liu Liangjian are not here.

……

The entrance of the cave was pitch black, and Su Jiu and Liu Liangjian were not in the underground passage.

Yes, exactly.

It was pitch black in the underpass.

Liu Liangjian held a strong light that had been prepared a long time ago and walked in the underground passage.

"Brother Su, I didn't expect that the entrance to this passage was actually here in this mountain rock! It's really cleverly arranged. Liu Liangjian followed behind Su Jiu and spoke.

"The corpse chaser faction is too mysterious in the feng shui world, others think that the corpse chaser faction will only refine corpses, in fact, they will have more things, and in the feng shui world, the corpse chaser faction is at the forefront. As far as I know, I'm afraid that only Lu Ban's tricks can surpass them. ”

Su Jiu said lightly, this information was all what he knew from the golden compass in his mind.

The corpse chasing faction inherits witchcraft, and there is a side door in witchcraft, which is a puppet technique, naturally, for such a mechanism technique, it will definitely be proficient.

People in the Feng Shui world didn't know about this, but Su Jiu knew.

"Brother Su, how do you know so clearly!" Hearing Su Jiu say this, Liu Liangjian slowly asked, slightly puzzled.

"I've seen it in family heirlooms." Su Jiu casually agreed.

"Oh!"

When Liu Liangjian heard Su Jiu say this, he immediately thought of the inheritance of the Su family, and he no longer had other doubts.

The two of them slowly advanced through the underground passage.

Soon, the location of the main burial chamber was reached. (To be continued.) )

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