Mysterious China: Guizhou Coffin Cave

Damp cave, countless coffins piled together is slowly decaying, people believe in this way allows the soul of misery ascend to paradise. Cliff caves in southwestern Guizhou Anshun City, people can see the mountains of the coffin, which is the local time-honored custom of weird. There is a cave layers piled on 500 different levels of rotting coffin. This cave is ancient local five villages Liu villagers' coffin hole. "

End of the trip: countless coffins cave was their last stop

There is a cave piled layers of different degrees of 500 rotting coffin. This cave is ancient local five villages Liu villagers' coffin hole " According to local folklore, the residents here are a few centuries ago to avoid war and migration from the hinterland of the Central Plains to the mountains of Guizhou. Legend has it that they hope one day to return to ancestral homes, so they do not bury the dead buried coffin but to accumulate in the cave. Another argument is about the custom originated in the region often send floods, so the coffin placed in a cave to avoid the pain of flooding. Placed in the cave also means closer coffin from the sky, but also from heaven closer.

Custom: cave coffin was piled slowly decay, so that we can make soul into Elysium

Legend: According to local folk say, residents here early for Duobizhanluan migration from the hinterland of the Central Plains to the mountains of Guizhou

Locals believe that, so many years after the coffin slowly rotting misery soul ascend to help Elysium

This tradition is believed to have originated in the cause of local flood-prone, the cave can protect against flooding coffin

Countless coffins piled together, slowly rotting

Locals believe placed in caves, coffins closer sky, from heaven Elysium also closer

On the southwest cliff cave coffin