All over the world there is the custom of "boat coffin burial", the shape of its burial apparatus resembles:?

Ancient burials with canoe-shaped coffins. Sub-open-air burial and mountainous areas of the ancient Yue people, for hanging coffins. Documentation of similar burials in south-central China. In southeast Asia, the Solomon Islands, Samoa Islands, only after the death of the chief can use the boat coffins, such as not buried near the sea, it is placed into the sea and let it drift and sink.

Boat coffin burials are divided into open-air burials and earth burials. Boat coffin open-air burial popular in the southeast of the ancient Yue people, mainly in Fujian and Jiangxi Wuyi Mountain area. Fujian Chongan Wuyi Mountain boat coffins are canoe-shaped, historical name "frame ravine boat coffins", "fairy boat", "boat", etc., was popular in the Shang Dynasty to the Western Han Dynasty. In recent years, archaeological discoveries, this boat coffin is divided into two parts of the bottom cover, are routed from the whole section of wood, the upper and lower sets together. The bottom is the main body of the boat coffin, in the rectangular body place; cover for semicircular, the internal router empty as the boat with the shape. According to the literature, there are similar boat coffins in south-central China: Hubei called "my boat", Hunan called "boat", Guangxi called "incense boat", "immortal boat". Immortal Boat". Boat-coffin burials were the burial custom of the ancient Ba people in Sichuan, popular from the end of the 4th century BC to the end of the 1st century BC. Archaeological discovery, Sichuan Baxian Dongzha Dam and Zhaohua County BaoLunYuan have boat coffins burial group, boat coffins body shape large and heavy, with the whole section of nanmu router or with 6 pieces of the whole board put together and become, the middle of the body for the place, on the board for the cover.