The Mystery Of The Coffin

In Wuyi Mountain, Fujian, or Jiangxi, Zhejiang, Taiwan, Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Guangdong, Hainan and many other regions, there are a custom of hanging coffin. The so -called hanging coffin, a form of folklore, is classified as a cliff burial (that is, wind burial). Placed in natural rock joints, caves, or artificial rock jet into the coffin into the cave. The above is a kind of funeral custom among the ancient southern peoples of my country. The current hanging coffin began in the Southern Dynasty, Gu Ye. At that time, he was traveling in Wuyi Mountain and saw that "there are thousands of hanging coffins in the semi -cliff", so he was named.

There are thousands of hanging coffins on a mountain, and it is a custom of many places. Why does this strange funeral custom?

The villagers are worshiping the ancestors and the king

There is a legend that lived in the Dai people living in Fujian: In ancient times, the ancestors of the Dai people met with the three princesses of Gao Xindi, and they had three men and one woman. Because the king of Shan was the world, he did not fall to the ground, and he did not fall to the ground. Therefore, after his death, the children and grandchildren used wheels and ropes to place the coffin in the cave on the cliffs of the Fenghuang Mountain cliff. Later generations were due to the attack, and the custom of hanging coffin was developed.

The legend of the people said that when the people were threatened by the disease, they were reported by the ancestor's mother. They had to escape the death threat of the disease and disease. In other words, they value the protection of rocks on them. The people worship the stone, and the burial spirit is on the cliff, and hopes that the stone can bless the son, so it has developed this kind of funeral customs.

Chen Mingfang also listed many sayings in "China Hanging Coffin Burning", such as the Tang Dynasty Zhang's "Chao Ye Ye", saying that the ancients of the ancients, "Mi Gao thinks the filial piety." high. The Qing Dynasty Dong Tianong's "Wu Yishan Zhi" also remembered that the Queen Mother West had banquet invited the folks of Wuyi Mountain, and said that the wooden bar used to set up a coffin near the cliff hole entrance with a hanging coffin was "Hongqiao Board", and the folks were from these "Hongqiao Boat Board "Walking over the banquet; others say that almost all the cliffs of the hanging coffin are in the water of Linjiang, so they are all nations of" water in the mountains ". The wooden canoe -like coffin, so this kind of funeral is the worship of ancestors developed on the basis of ghost worship in primitive religions. Others believe that the funeral of hanging coffin must be a commemorative ceremony. It is estimated that it is an imitation of the prehistoric primitive national rock or acupoint life. In addition, some people think that the formation of hanging coffin may be related to war, and so on.