A mimicking performance on how to arrange coffins up onto high
cliff caves was re-staged on Sunday at the site of ancient hanging
coffins at Xianshui Cliff, Longhu Mountain in Yingtan, east China's
Jiangxi Province.
Performers simulate the installation of
hanging coffins up onto grottos at Xianshui Cliff, Longhu Mountain
in Yingtan, east China's Jiangxi province, on Sunday, November 25,
2007.
China News Service reported that the site owns more than one
hundred ancient hanging coffins, that dated back to the ancient Yue
State from the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States Period
(770-221BC).
The coffin caves, dug into precipitious cliffs twenty to fifty
meters above the Luxi River, have remained impossible to access
over the past 2,500 years. As a result, the contents inside the
coffin grottoes remain enshrouded in mystery.
However, there is still no definite explanation on how ancient
people exactly installed their ancestors' hanging coffins into the
grottoes. The mimicking performance at Xianshui Cliff was anyhow
just one of the said ways to arrange hanging coffine, although the
way has not been verified as exact by scientific research.
(CRI.cn November 27, 2007)
