Hanging coffin tomb

...The Wei, Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties tombs, such as those in Baolun Town, Zhaohua County, have one or two parallel coffin chambers behind a short antechamber, but cliff tombs from this period are generally smaller than those from the Later Han Dynasty. In addition, some hanging coffin tombs (a wooden coffin placed on a wooden stake driven into the cliff) are widely distributed throughout the Yangtze River basin and have a structure similar to that of cliff tombs, which were built by the Bo people in imitation of Han burial practices. In addition, there are burials from the Warring States period that make use of natural caves in steep cliffs in Guixi, Jiangxi Province, and Chong'an, Fujian Province, north and south of the Wuwei Mountains, but these are called cliff-dungeon tombs and are distinguished from cliff tombs....

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "hanging coffin tombs" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…魏晋南北朝期のものは昭化県宝輪鎮の例では短い前室の後方に1室または並列した2室の棺室をもつが，概してこの時期の崖墓は後漢代のものに比して小型である。このほか，長江流域一帯に広く分布する懸棺葬墓(断崖の中腹に挿した木杭に木棺を置く葬俗)に，崖墓と同様の構造をもつものがあり，これは〈僰（ほく）人〉が漢族墓葬をまねて築いたものである。また，江西省貴渓，福建省崇安の武威山脈南北に，険しい断崖の自然の洞穴を利用した戦国時代の墓葬があるが，これは崖洞墓といい，崖墓とは区別される。…

※「懸棺葬墓」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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