Shocking Mystery Revealed: Ancient Technique for Hanging Coffins on Cliffs Unveiled After Thousands of Years!

China has a vast territory and abundant resources, with mountains and rivers stretching far and wide. Different geographical environments also lead to different customs and practices in different places. Even in terms of burial, different regions have different methods. The most famous burial methods are natural burial and cremation. There are also burial methods such as sky burial, water burial and even hanging coffin burial in some regions.

Hanging coffins are a form of burial originating from ancient Chinese ethnic minorities, where coffins are placed on wooden stakes driven into cliffs. In some places, coffins are placed in natural caves dozens of meters above the ground. Among the remaining relics, the Longhu Mountain area (Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi, China) is famous for its series of hanging coffins lined up along the rugged cliffs, below which is a large river, creating a majestic and mysterious scene.

The sight makes one wonder how the ancients moved and placed these coffins. According to experts, each coffin can weigh up to 300 kg, and they have survived intact for thousands of years. Despite many surveys and studies, questions about the technique and how it was done have not been satisfactorily answered.

The question is how the coffin was placed on the cliff? Experts have offered a reward of 400,000 yuan (1.3 billion VND) for anyone who can solve this problem. Remarkably, a farmer has found the answer.

Compared to traditional burial, hanging coffins on cliffs (haunted burial) is a very special form of burial in which the coffin is hung on a vertical cliff. The terrain where the cliff is located is very steep, and even climbing it is very dangerous. And at that time, mountain climbing technology and safety measures were not yet developed. Hanging a coffin weighing hundreds of kilograms on a cliff was difficult to do with the level of development at that time. Moreover, the terrain in Jiangxi is very dangerous, with both deep ravines and fast-flowing rivers. Many people believe that the coffins on the cliffs were placed manually.

But the huge number of coffins on Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi has left people with no choice but to accept the fact that the coffins were placed with the help of supporting tools. So the question is, how did people place the coffins on the cliff at that time? Since the 1970s, many experts and scholars have begun to study this issue, but experts are also confused in giving an answer.

The farmer said that the coffin was carried to the cliff by a “heavenly vehicle”. (Illustration photo).

To find the exact answer, experts and scholars even pay a high price to invite people to give their views and opinions to solve the unsolved mysteries about burial.

The public reaction was huge, everyone was racking their brains but very few effective clues were given. The mystery of the hanging coffin burial remains unsolved.

Just when everyone was bewildered, an old farmer calmly resolved the matter. It turned out that a scholar who had studied the mystery of hanging coffins had come to the countryside near Longhu Mountain to conduct investigation and research. During a casual conversation, the words of a local old farmer had made this expert realize the truth. The old farmers had lived in this place for generations. When the old farmer was young, he accidentally heard from the previous generation that the coffin on the cliff had been transported to the cliff by a “heavenly chariot”.

Ancient people used giant winches to lift coffins up cliffs. (Illustration photo).

Later, after the experts got the clue, they conducted in-depth research and concluded that the so-called “sky car” must be a giant winch made by the previous generations using pulleys . The predecessors used the related principles of wheels and axles to create a lifting machine. The experts were delighted to come to the correct conclusion. They put their ideas into practice and conducted experiments on the edge of the cliff. The on-site experiment successfully restored the hanging coffin burial method , and the results proved that the “lowering crane” method mentioned by the ancient farmers was absolutely correct.

The mystery of the hanging coffin burial that had long eluded people was solved in this way. Those who knew the truth once again sincerely praised the ingenuity of their predecessors.

China’s hanging coffins on Longhu Mountain, suspended on rugged cliffs, have baffled experts for decades. Weighing up to 300 kg, these coffins, placed by ancient ethnic minorities, seemed impossible to position given the steep terrain and lack of modern tools. Despite rewards for answers, the mystery remained unsolved until an old farmer revealed an ancestral secret: a “heavenly chariot.” Research confirmed this referred to massive winches with pulleys, enabling the coffins’ placement. Experiments validated this ingenious ancient technique, unraveling the mystery and showcasing the exceptional ingenuity of early civilizations.