Why is the hanging coffin of the Bo people placed on a 10,000-foot wall?

From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty Wanli years up to 2,000 years of time, a maverick minority - Bo people have been China's southern Sichuan Gongxian territory farming, living, reproducing. In the first year of the Wanli reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty (1573 A.D.), after the "Bo Han war", this tribe has mysteriously disappeared, and they left the world only 265 coffins hanging on the broken wall cliffs as high as a hundred meters above the ground.

These high above the "Bo hanging coffins" total weight more than dry pounds, are with the hard texture of the whole wood carved and chiseled. Its shape is mainly boat-shaped and rectangular two kinds. The situation of the burial place is different, the individual way of burial is also slightly different: or cut holes in the cliff wall, rafters for the pile, feet coffin on the cliff pile to expand out of the space; or about the wall on the excavation of stone niches, coffins into the niche; or the use of cliffs on the natural rock grooves, rock piers, caves to place coffins ......

Why do the Bo people want to put the coffins hanging above a thousand-foot cliffs? in the thousands of feet above the wall?

Experts believe that, according to the meaning of the ancient Bo people, hanging coffins into the clouds, is to suck the essence of the sun and moon. Scientifically speaking, the ethnic minorities in the southwest region due to the long-term residence in the mountains and water, they produce incomparable lofty feelings for the mountains and water, after death, buried in the mountains near the water position indicates that the spirits of the dead on the mountains of the attachment and the feelings of trust. As for placing the coffin very high, it is because the high place can protect the body from moisture and prevent the intrusion of man and beast.

But in the roadless, unusually steep rock face, the ancients and how these hanging coffins placed on the cliff face? There are many different opinions on this.

"Trestle theory" that the hanging coffins are transported to the cave on the cliff by repairing the trestle. But the amount of work is very large, dozens of meters from the ground and even hundreds of meters, which is relatively economically and culturally backward, sparsely populated ancient southwest is impossible.

"Sling theory" that the suspension bier can be a solution to the problem of how to hang things on the cliff. Bo people first find a burial hole, in front of the hole set up a few meters long trestle, coffins made in place at the summit, the dead after the coffin hanging down to the mouth of the hole, and then pushed into the hole by the people to go. But the top of the mountain to the valley are generally one or two hundred meters, the ancients are using what machinery will be hanging coffins to the mouth of the cave, and how to push the coffin into the cave?

Suspended coffins are full of mystery, it as a miracle in the history of cultural development, full of wisdom of the Bo people. Why did the Bo people bury themselves in hanging coffins? In the era of slash-and-burn farming, how did they place the coffins hanging high? What are the stories of the Bo people? No one can answer these mysteries.