Chapter 43: A Brief Discussion on the Hanging Coffin
The hanging coffins in front of me are not special, but the number of them and the shape formed by the coffins are really impressive, and I even wonder if the existence of these hanging coffins will be some relatives of the tomb owner, of course, this is just my imagination, we don't know who are in these hanging coffins. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Abu saw it and said, "I'll go, what are so many hanging coffins for?" ”
Qianyu glanced at him and said, "What can you do, pretend to be dead!" ”
"Of course I know that it's a dead person, but there are so many coffins, where does this have to extend, you see, you can't see the end, and I don't know what the identity of the owner of this tomb is!" Abu said again.
I heard Abu say this, and told Abu them what the master said to us just now, according to the meaning of the master, this is a tomb of the so-called courtiers who tasted Qiang, as for why it is in Zhaotong, we don't know, of course, the tomb in Yunnan is always a little magical, just take the hanging coffin in front of us, this is really a little terrible, after all, so many coffins are supported by wooden planks in the air, first of all, don't talk about the problem of manpower, how they put it alone I don't know, and then Abu they also understood, But they were all a little surprised.
But the hanging coffins in Yunnan are actually a lot of famous, as for the Dousha Pass I said before, it is just one of them, after all, this is not like Shanxi and Shaanxi, which is the earliest beginning of China, and Shanxi and Shaanxi are the places with the most ancient tombs in China, compared with Yunnan, it is still a little overshadowed, but less is less, but this feature is different.
When I saw this situation, I tried to recall the hanging coffins in Yunnan, after all, after the beginning of the inverted fight, I know a lot of things, first of all, I have to talk about other places, not only Zhaotong, there are also many hanging coffins in other places, of course, there are basically no in the tomb, because it is not on the cliff, or on the bank of the river.
First of all, the hanging coffin burial is a more peculiar burial style in ancient times, there is no doubt about this, along the river, choose a cliff with thousands of walls, and use the method that we still do not know, the immortal deceased and the coffin containing him are hung high in the appropriate position halfway up the cliff.
The situation of the burial ground is different, and the individual way of burial is also slightly different, some or dig holes in the cliff wall, the rafters are piles, and the ruler coffin is placed in the space expanded by the cliff pile, or the stone niche is dug on the wall, and the corpse coffin is placed in the niche, or the natural rock ditch, rock pier, and rock cave on the cliff are used to place the corpse coffin......
Anyway, it means that when a person dies, he must find a home, and he must find a proper placement method for the body that has lost his soul, and in this sense, hanging coffin burial is as common as burial, cremation, water burial, sky burial, and other burial ceremonies.
However, let me hold my breath and think about how a heavy coffin, a cold corpse, could be buried on that high cliff, and who is the owner of the coffin? Of course, I can't think about these questions, and I just want to lift the curse on my body as soon as possible.
Our limited wisdom is still difficult to decipher this fable written in silence for thousands of years, and we cannot escape the shadow of the hanging coffin in the nightmare, and there is even such an anecdote that says: "In 1933, in order to explore the mystery of the hanging coffin of the servants, a magistrate surnamed Chen hired two woodcutters to tear down two hanging coffins from the cliff of Dousha Pass, one of which was transported to the Zhaotong Provincial No. 2 Middle School for inspection and exhibition. ”
In the second year, a large Xiong Tingquan disaster relief official, in addition to official duties, visited the Provincial No. 2 Middle School, saw the hanging coffin and the remains in the coffin, and inquired about the story of the tragic death of the woodcutter. Please be courteous."
Later, the principal had to bury the remains of the hanging coffin, but the bear was still unable to feel at ease, and wrote a poem trembling and frightened: "The frost is desolate and dewy, and the wind and rain are eroding the sun and the moon." Who is the skeleton of the strong, Hu is not quick to fall in love with this high post, evil is rewarded, good is celebrated, the coffin is destroyed, the remains are desolate, the vast land of the mountain is boundless, I think that the house is forever hidden, Zhen Baifu Xi descends a hundred auspicious, and the thousand years are long live. Worship ghosts and gods and stay away, anyway, it means that the hanging coffin is very mysterious, and it must be respected and kept away.
In Yunnan, the hanging coffins in the Zhaotong area along the Jinsha River, Baishui River, and Guanhe River basin are not unique, and must be the most distributed and most concentrated areas, as far as we know now, the Dousha Pass, Diping, Coffin Rock, Lingguan Rock of Yanjin County, the tile stone, the stone cave, the Huanghua of Yongshan County, no less than ten places, the rock pile, the rock pier, the rock niche, the rock ditch, the rock cave and other forms of hanging coffin burial are readily available.
In particular, the hanging coffin of Doushaguan, the most preserved, the most intact, the most precipitous terrain, is called "the ancient relics, the miracle of the world", "the hanging coffin museum" by scholars, so the hanging coffin in Yunnan is also very famous, as for the hanging coffin in Yunnan that I said before is very rare, and I have not even seen it, and the hanging coffin that we are talking about makes us see it.
The coffin of Dousha Pass hangs on the cliff on the south bank of the Guan River in Shimen Village, Dousha Township, Yanjin County, close to the 213 Third Road, Qin Kai "Five Feet Road", Han Xiu Nanyi Road, Sui Zhuang Biliang Bridge Pavilion, Tang Kai Shimen Road, all of which choose Dousha Pass as the gateway of Rendian without exception. "Guanjin Hub", "Nanyun Lock Key", worthy of the name.
On the north bank of the Guanhe River, the noble trace of "Five Feet Road", the ancient castle of Shimenguan, the inscription of Yuan Zi in the imperial history of Tang Zhenyuan for ten years is named the cliff, showing that there has been the prosperity of the humanities here, the south bank of the Guanhe River, the wall is cut and stands, it rises to the sky, it is as high as four or five hundred meters, and the hanging coffin is stored in the cliff half-waist and a square rock ridge.
In the thirties of the twentieth century, there were more than 40 coffins, and since then, they have either fallen into the Guanhe River, or have been destroyed by the curious and ill-intentioned, and there are still more than 10 coffins today.
Looking further, under the light and almost transparent sky, in the shadow of the cliff that is so heavy that it will collapse, the corpses are piled up, suspended in the air, which will indeed make people have many indescribable thoughts and imagine many strange stories of gods and demons.
Anyway, the mystery of the hanging coffin is not something that can be explained clearly in one or two sentences, and I really haven't seen the burial methods of these hanging coffins in front of us, and even when the master saw these hanging coffins, countless doubts flashed in his eyes.
But just as we were looking at the hanging coffins, suddenly I heard the sound of the coffin board being struck.
And we didn't come across those hanging coffins at all.