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The Shimen Hanging Coffin is located in a very secluded valley west of Xiaoshimen Village, 70 kilometers west of Ningwu City. There is a secluded alley in the depths of the canyon, the entrance is like a door with stone walls, and the trees in the alley are lush. Shimen Hanging Coffin is the earliest cliff burial group discovered so far in the north of the Yangtze River, which is of great value for archaeological research. Looking around the stone wall inside the stone gate, it is not a towering dangerous rock, but only 10 to 20 meters high, all are steep and smooth up and down, the top of the wall is covered with green trees and bushes, and the wooden coffins hanging on the stone wall are embedded in caves. There are also those exposed outside the stone wall, supported by wooden piles, and hung by iron chains. There are not only one coffin hanging alone, but also two coffins side by side. The heights from the ground are different, but all of them can be seen very clearly. There are as many as 11. In addition, there are scattered hanging coffins on the mountain walls around Shimen. Most of the hanging coffins are located in cool, dry places such as cliffs and caves. The height from the ground varies from nearly 100 meters, to tens of meters, to tens of meters. The hanging burial methods of Shimen hanging coffins can be roughly divided into cave type, hanging type, hanging pile type and plank road type. The cave type is to place the coffin in a natural or artificial stone cave high on the cliff; the hanging type is to hang the coffin with iron chains on the high point of the cliff; the hanging pile type is to dig a hole on the cliff and insert wooden stakes , Put the coffin on the wooden piles; the plank road type is to drill holes in the middle of the cliff and insert piles, pave a miniature plank road, and put the coffin on the plank road. If we say that the hanging coffin group in Matangba, Gongxian County, Sichuan Province ranks first in the country in terms of number of more than 200, while the hanging coffins in Shimen include various types such as plank roads, cliff crevices, pile cliffs, suspensions, and caves. It ranks first in China in terms of varieties.
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