Cliff burial is a burial custom in which human remains are buried in cliff caves or cliff walls. It is also a type of wind burial, that is, open-air burial.
An ancient burial method popular in ethnic minority areas in southwest China, including hanging coffin burial and cliff cave burial.
People place the coffin on a platform carved out of the cliff, or drill holes in the cliff and drive wooden wedges into it. The coffin is placed on the wooden wedge, or the coffin is placed in a natural rock cave. Various patterns, inscriptions, etc. are carved on the rock wall.
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A kind of burial custom in which human remains are buried in cliff caves or cliff walls. It is a kind of open-air burial.
The custom of cliff burial has been popular among some people of the Pu, Yue, Ba, Liao, Han and other ethnic groups in ancient China.
"Linhai Tuji" has records of cliff burials. The owners of cliff burials in China date back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In modern times, some Zhuang, Buyi, Miao, Yao, Gelao, as well as some Miao and Miao people in southwest Guizhou are now
The Yamei people of the Gaoshan tribe in Lanyu, Taiwan, practice cliff burial.
Cliff burial, also known as hanging coffin burial, is a special burial custom of the Puyue people who lived widely in the south in ancient China.
The burial method is to use natural rock crevices or artificial wooden piles to suspend the coffin forest on the cliff, or place the coffin forest in a natural or artificial cave.
The burial sites for hanging coffin burials are usually chosen on cliffs and high rocks facing rivers. Most of the burial objects are ordinary coffins, two to three meters long and about half a meter wide. They are shaped like a bird and are divided into head, tail and warehouse.
There are three parts, the head and tail are raised, and the warehouse is used as a coffin to place the body.
According to Mr. Ling Chunsheng, the cliff burials in China are mainly found in two major regions. Those in the southeastern region are in the three provinces of Jiangxi, Zhejiang, and Fujian. For example, the cliff burials in Wuyi Mountain and Balanshan Mountain are the remains of Shanyue, Ouyue, and Minyue.
, belong to the ancient Baiyue and cliff burials in southwest China, and are the remains left by them.
The living habits of the ancient Puyue people had a profound impact on their burial ceremonies.
Looking at the burial utensils of Chinese cliff burials, although there are many styles, the general-shaped coffin is the typical early style.
Judging from the excavations, although the boat shape of the cliff burial coffins in the southeastern region is not as obvious as that in the southwest region, they are all made of half-cut cylindrical forest. The entire coffin is very similar to a canoe. This is also a kind of boat.
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The ancient Puyue people were good at using boats during their lifetime, and it was natural for them to use the boat as a coffin for burial after death. Similar situations can also be found among the Samoans and Yueño people in the South Pacific.
Because they are island people and cannot survive without boats, they use the boats used by the deceased as burial objects.
Therefore, the boat-shaped coffin should have originated from a canoe.
So, what does using a boat as a coffin have to do with the soul belief of the ancient Puyue people?
In fact, they use the ship as the carrier of their soul's destination.
Using a boat as a coffin is the product of Puyue people’s soul belief.
In their view, the ships closely related to them will carry their souls back to their hometown or sail to another happy world.
sc Some boat coffins also have wooden coffins inside, and the boat coffin plays the role of a coffin.
Both the body is contained in a letter and the boat coffin is wrapped in it. This strongly proves that in addition to the role of a general coffin, the ancient Puyue people also endowed the boat coffin with the function of carrying souls.
Send the soul of the deceased to a suitable place and prevent it from getting entangled with the living. The best way to cause trouble with the living is to lead the soul of the deceased to the ancestors.
The ancient Puyue people used boats instead of coffins to send souls to the origin of their ancestors, which can be mutually confirmed with the ancient southern people's "soul boat" custom. Both soul boats and cliff burials used boats as a way for the deceased to return to their ancestors.
The difference between tools is that the soul boat carries the soul and is "navigated" by birds; cliff burial directly delivers the body to the cave on the cliff.
It can be considered that the boat coffin is an older form of soul boat.
There are many types of burial tools: wooden coffins, sarcophagi, pottery coffins and cloth bags are often used to bury corpses; small boxes, small letters and pottery urns are often used to bury bones or ashes. Some cliff burials are also accompanied by cliff paintings, halls or puppets.
Therefore, some have only one or two burial utensils, and some have dozens of burial utensils. Some of the tomb utensils in the same place were buried at the same time after the same clan or village held a ceremony at a selected time, and some were buried one after another until the burials were full.
After one point, choose another place.
There is an ancient legend about cliff burials in the Feng Shui community.
Rumor has it that in ancient times, King Panhu, the founder of the She people, married the third princess of Emperor Gaoxin, and they had three sons and one daughter. The family moved to Fenghuang Mountain to hunt and farm.
Because King Panhu came to the world from the stars and never landed on the ground when he was alive or dead, so after his death, his descendants used wheels and ropes to place the coffin in the cave on the cliff of Fenghuang Mountain.
It was followed from generation to generation, forming the hanging coffin burial custom of the ancient She people.
The word "She" of the She people was written as "苟" in ancient times, which also contains the meaning of this story: After a big man passed away in Fenghuang Mountain, his coffin was hung on a wheel in a cliff cave for burial.
If Su Jiu enters this cave, he will find that the aura fluctuations emanating from this cave have a slightly familiar feeling.
Yes, it was the dry corpse in the tomb of the Ghost Sect Killer in the empty land that had similar aura fluctuations.
However, Su Jiu has not entered here yet.
If Su Jiu came here and saw all this, he would definitely be surprised.
Here in hn province, there are actually cliff burials near Huaxia*.
This itself is inconsistent with common sense.
But at this moment, Su Jiu and Liu Liangjian were not here.
…
The entrance to the cave was pitch black, and Su Jiu and Liu Liangjian were nowhere to be found in the underground passage.
Yes, that's exactly it.
It was pitch dark in the underground passage.
Liu Liangjian held the bright light he had prepared in his hand and walked in the underground passage.
"Brother Su, I didn't expect that the entrance to this passage is actually here on this mountain rock! The arrangement of this mechanism is really clever." Liu Liangjian followed Su Jiu and said.
"The corpse exorcism sect is too mysterious in the Feng Shui world. Others think that the corpse exorcism sect only knows how to refine corpses. In fact, they know many things, such as the art of mechanism. In the feng shui world, the corpse exorcism sect is the only one."
They are on the front line. As far as I know, only Luban's lineage of organ skills can surpass them."
Su Jiu said lightly, all this information was learned from the golden compass in her mind.
The corpse exorcism sect inherits witchcraft, and there is a branch of witchcraft, which is the art of trap puppetry. Naturally, one will definitely be proficient in such a trap art.
People in the Feng Shui community don't know this clearly, but Su Jiu does.
"Brother Su, how do you know so clearly!" After hearing what Su Jiu said, Liu Liangjian slowly asked, slightly confused.
"I read it from family heirlooms." Su Jiu agreed casually.
"oh!"
When Liu Liangjian heard what Su Jiu said, he immediately thought of the Su family's inheritance and no longer had any other doubts.
The two of them moved forward slowly in the underground passage.
Soon, we arrived at the main tomb chamber. (To be continued.)
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