In fact, it is not very responsible to call them hanging coffins. Because there is only part of the coffin hanging in the air. Specifically, two holes were drilled into the cliff, two wooden sticks were driven in, and the coffin was placed on the wooden sticks. Because it was so old, some of the wooden sticks were broken under the sun and rain, and the coffin had already fallen down. Only half of the wooden sticks could be seen hanging in the air, which made people judge that there was once a hanging coffin.
In addition to hanging in the air, there are also those that drill a cave directly on the cliff and put the coffin into the cave. Of course, some also have natural caves on the cliffs, which saves the labor of drilling the cave and puts the coffin directly into it. There are also cracks in some rock masses, and coffins have been stuffed inside. There are more than 260 hanging coffins in various forms in total, which is quite large in scale.
Without exception, these hanging coffins are all located on the mountainside. They are neither touching the sky nor touching the ground. There is no trail extending to the top. Of course, there are no traces of wooden plank roads built on rocks like the plank roads in northern Sichuan. Need to drill holes in rock mass. The closest of these hanging coffins to the ground is more than ten meters, and the farthest is more than 100 meters. Because of the steepness, it is impossible for people to reach the hanging coffin from above, below or from the side, let alone carry a heavy coffin. The coffin was made of wood, with one end larger and the other smaller. It was similar to the style of coffins popular in southern Sichuan today. There was nothing special about it. The shape of the coffin is not the reason why it can be hung.
What people are puzzled about is how the coffin was placed on that cliff? It is generally believed that a rope was used to hang someone down from above to make a hole, and then the coffin was hung down. But this is absolutely impossible. There are many protruding rocks above the coffins, and it is impossible to place the coffins on the crossbar.
However, after Lao Yan read the reply from the fellow villager yesterday, he already knew what the Bo people's hanging coffins were like without even thinking about it, that is, he cracked the construction method of the Bo people's hanging coffins. However, to explain the specific method clearly, we have to do it step by step. Please be patient and make a cup of tea.
Bo people are a very ancient nation. The ethnicity mentioned here is a guess, and many ethnic groups can be of the same race. In ancient times, the racial situation was very complex, and sometimes a tribe was an independent race. Therefore, the Bo people may also be an independent race. However, regardless of ethnicity or race, it does not affect how the coffin is placed. The earliest book recording the Bo people is from the Warring States Period. Of course, no group of people can appear out of thin air. The Bo people also had a long history before and the Warring States Period . This is not speculation, this is inevitable. But it had not yet been discovered by people who used words in those days.
Gongxian County is like other places around the Sichuan Basin , with mountains and rugged hills. The altitude is between 600 meters and 1,000 meters. You will understand later that this is a very embarrassing data.
More than 4,300 years ago, during the reign of Emperor Zhuanxu, a super flood occurred on the earth that swept the world. No one now doubts whether this great flood really happened. What people need to explore is the reasons for the flood , the extent of its impact, and the end time. Of course, if there are any readers who do not believe that a great flood happened, then I have to trouble you to pick up the tea cup and float it gently over it, and be careful not to break your legs when you land on the ground.
Regarding this great flood, there are records in almost every place where there was writing in ancient times. For example, Egyptian documents, Sumerian clay tablets, Inca of South America, Jewish Old Testament, of course, there are also records in Chinese documents. Without exception, these texts record floods reaching the sky, and texts in South America describe tsunamis thousands of meters high. Based on the analysis of the disaster situation in China at that time, almost all the areas east of Tongguan were submerged. According to analysis, the tsunami was at least one thousand meters high.
The Sichuan Basin has a special structure. The tsunami rolled over the mountains from the east and poured into the basin, filling the entire basin.——Don’t ask Lao Yan how much water he needs. Anyway, Lao Yan will definitely not be able to use up this amount of water in his lifetime. The Sichuan Basin is very closed, and the floods come in quickly and release slowly. They have been contained in a huge footbath for a long time, and the depth of the water reaches an altitude of 700 to 800 meters. At this time, Gong County was embarrassed. The altitude of 600 to 1,000 meters means that all the low places are flooded, but the high mountains are all on the water. And compared with those places that were directly swept by the tsunami, the water level in the basin rose slowly, so the Bo people had enough time to run to the top of the mountain.
The flood rises slowly, but it only takes ten days, eight days, three to five months. However, the flood recedes even more slowly, taking decades or even two to three hundred years. Therefore, on the top of the mountain, the Bo people lived a difficult life. Over the course of decades or hundreds of years, they must have learned how to build boats and row boats as they passed on experience from generation to generation, because this is the communication between the mountains. The only way. In this way they adapted to their new life.
In other words, the flood has reached halfway up the mountain. Under such circumstances, there are almost no technical problems for the Bo people who have learned how to row a boat. Therefore, Lao Yan concluded that the Bo people's hanging coffins, which are a mystery in China, are actually a product of the Great Flood. Although the productivity at that time was very low, people still had some strength; as long as they had a little strength, they could place a coffin on the cliff.
Everyone knows what happened next. The flood gradually receded, and the coffin placed on the cliff became higher and higher from the water. It will take decades or even two to three hundred years for the floods to finally recede. During such a long period of time, many Bo people must have died unfortunately, and their coffins were transported to the cliff through the water and placed on the cliff. After the floods receded, there were hanging coffins everywhere on the cliffs, making it a unique cultural landscape.
Lao Yan believes that friends who believe in the prehistoric flood will definitely accept Lao Yan's statement 100% after seeing this, and sigh that this short fat man is really great. However, Lao Yan slapped himself in the face. The reason is very simple. The hanging coffins of the Bo people are introduced on the Internet. I don’t know when the oldest one was, but the latest one is from the and Ming Dynasty era. This is a bit sad. The Ming Dynasty has only been a few hundred years old, and Lao Yan's above analysis must have been put up more than 4,000 years ago. Lao Yan's score must be wrong.
But fortunately, Lao Yan was thick-skinned and later found a remedy on his own. Since we don’t know the exact year of the earliest one, we don’t know how many years it has been until today. This means that the Bo people’s hanging coffins have not been dated in archeology, but are judged based on cultural relics. Bamboo slips were found in this coffin, so it was judged to be from the Han Dynasty. Blue and white porcelain was found in that coffin, and the name of the kiln was written on it, so it was judged to be from the Song Dynasty. An imperial edict of Zhu Yuanzhang was found in another coffin, so it was judged to be from the Ming Dynasty. Etc., etc. Of course, these cultural relics were not actually discovered, Lao Yan was just giving an example.
However, this method of judging the age based on cultural relics is very unscientific. Let me tell you a story. Last year, Lao Yan encountered such a thing and almost got into a fight with someone. In the Tang Dynasty City of Tumushuke, Xinjiang, archaeological excavations found Han Dynasty coins and money coins. Therefore, people traveling with Lao Yan believed that the city was built during the Han Dynasty. However, Lao Yan believes that this judgment is not strict, because copper coins and money fans are portable, and it is entirely possible that people from the Tang Dynasty brought them there. The Protectorate of the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty did not have the right to mint money, so even if you brought some coins, you should not bring Qian Fan with you.
If you want to ask who won the fight between Lao Yan and his colleague, then I am sorry to disappoint you. In the end, the fight did not end, but the matter was settled. Because Lao Yan didn't agree with Seoul's statement, he didn't take the business and went home dejectedly to continue walking the dog.If cultural relics from the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties are found in the hanging coffins of the Bo people, as long as they are portable and not in large quantities, they may have been brought in by tomb robbers. Although the coffin cannot be lowered by placing ropes from above, it is still possible to lower a partially suspended coffin using ropes.
So my friends believe that the hanging coffins of the Bo people were a common burial method during the Great Flood. Is this conclusion 90% likely?
