Chapter 42: Countless Hanging Coffins

Soon Qianyu also went down the tightrope, leaving a few of us big men standing on it, except for the old lady, of course, we thought that we couldn't lose face, I stood up first, and after saying hello to the master, I began to fix myself with a rope, and slowly slid down the tightrope, not to mention how embarrassed this scene was, the steelrope kept shaking, and I was also a little worried, so the whole body was holding the tightrope, and I didn't dare to let go of a finger. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Finally, I still got to the bottom steadily, but I didn't dare to look down, as soon as I looked down, I felt that I was in the abyss below, and I was about to close my eyes, the main reason was because I was hanging on the steel cable, not standing on it and looking down, this body dangling around was really uncomfortable.

"It's here, we'll help you, open your eyes and grab the halberd!" When the master saw me coming down, he said to me.

I felt a little embarrassed, so I slowly opened my eyes, only to see Qianyu and Xiaoye looking at me fixedly on the wooden board, I was a little embarrassed in this situation, I tried not to look at the hollow below, and glanced at Xiao Xiaoye and them, at this time Xiao Ye had already handed over the halberd.

I fixed myself before I stretched out my hand, and with a strong force, the master slowly pulled me closer to the edge of the plank, and the steel cable swung with me, but I didn't know how to get down to the plank.

At this time, the master said to Qianyu: "You pull the halberd, I'll pull the steel cable over!" ”

Qianyu nodded and responded, "Okay, then you be careful, these planks are not very strong!" ”

The master didn't say more, and handed the halberd to Qianyu's hand, and it was really a loss to Qianyu, for someone else, could not easily take the forty-six pounds of Tianlong single-eared halberd in the hand, and it didn't shake a little, seeing this, the master slowly pulled me over, and on the way to pull, you must be careful of the hollow below and the wooden board on the edge, because we really don't know how strong this wooden board is, and it has been poked through the pillar.

But fortunately, I was quickly pulled down by the master, and stopped steadily on the board, followed by the people above, and then my father and second uncle came down first, then the old lady, and slowly the crow and Wang Dashan, Li Sanyuan They also came down, and finally Li Yahong, fortunately, there were no accidents on the way down, the more people we had, the more strength we had to pull the people behind, so soon all of us landed safely on the board.

"Are they all down? There is no one up there! The master asked, and then looked at the people around us casually, I also counted, the number of people was not small, all came down, and then replied: "Qi, let's go!" ”

Of course, we didn't know what would be on this floor, and it was still pitch black behind us, and we had never shone it with a flashlight, when the old lady asked, "We should go that way, this floor seems to be able to go in every direction!" ”

Zhang Yuntian thought for a while and said, "Go behind us!" "The back actually refers to the rain pillar falling in the opposite direction.

"Okay, let's go back!" The second uncle replied.

When all of us were about to leave, Abu couldn't wait to walk in front, but he walked, he almost fell, if it wasn't for the young master's anti-emergency speed, quickly pulled Abu, I'm afraid Abu has fallen, I shined the flashlight in front of Abu, only to see that the front of Abu turned out to be a huge rectangle, and the middle is hollowed, and this rectangular gap, in fact, has been from the layer where we are all to the bottom, I can't see how high and deep.

And in the middle of this rectangular hollow, there are countless coffins hanging, hanging from the floor we are on to the point, and the shape of the coffin is basically the same, the coffin is built up of long wooden boards, from the middle of the pillars on each floor to the rectangular hollow, but those coffins seem to follow some rules, from the top down, in fact, it is a figure.

But we can't say what the shape is, it just looks extremely weird, Abu is still a little scared because he almost fell just now, but he quickly came back to his senses, turned his head and said in surprise: "I'll go, so many hanging coffins!" ”

"That's right!" The second uncle shone the flashlight down, and also showed a frightened look, and then just stared at the hanging coffin below.

"But how much manpower does it take to have so many coffins, and besides, they are still suspended in mid-air, which is not as good as ordinary hanging coffins!" I said, and they agreed.

Speaking of hanging coffins, it is not common in Yunnan, because most of the hanging coffins are on the cliffs and will not appear in the tomb. Hanging coffins is also a way of burial, but the words in front of us are always hanging coffins is too strange.

Hanging coffin burial style is a special way to dispose of the bones of the deceased, in our country is mainly distributed in the ancient southern minority areas, there are many confusions that people can not explain today for this kind of hanging coffin burial style with profound cultural connotations, for example, what method did people in ancient times use to send the coffin containing the corpse and burial items, weighing hundreds of kilograms into the high cliff cave, is an "elusive" problem.

The earliest explanation for this problem was probably Gu Yewang, a native of the Southern Dynasty, who called the cliff cave in Wuyi Mountain where the hanging coffin was placed "the house of the earth immortals", which means the burial place of the gods. The immortals have the ability to soar through the clouds, and of course there will be no difficulty in hanging the coffin.

Later generations guessed that "the cloud is the place where the bones of the immortals are buried", which is said in the "Taiping Huanyu Ji", so there is a saying that some caves in Wuyi Mountain also have the reputation of Shengzhen Cave, Xianji Cave, and Bone Changing Rock, and there is even such a description in "Ji Shen Lu": "Wuyi Mountain, Jianzhou, or the night of wind and rain, hear the sound of people and horses, and Ming, there is a coffin on the cliff." "Immortals are already the product of fantasy, and it is inconceivable that immortals who are said to be immortal will die like mortals. However, since these sayings have been circulated, at least it shows that the ancients believed that if it were not for the action of the gods, it would be difficult for ordinary people to implement the peculiar burial method of volleying unsolved cases.

There are also people who believe that the origin of the hanging coffin is like this, and the hanging coffin burial is related to the practice of rock dwelling by prehistoric primitive peoples, and it is a reflection of people's cave dwelling life. Since people lived in caves when they were alive and were buried in their original places after death, some people believe that the formation of hanging coffins is actually related to war and the level of technology, and there is no other complicated reason. However, the retractors pointed out that there is no information so far to suggest that the formation of this burial custom was related to the war, but after all, it is some theory, and I am not sure.

And these hanging coffins in front of you are no longer traditional hanging coffins.