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Hanging coffins

Index Hanging coffins

Hanging coffins are coffins which have been placed on cliffs. [1]

33 relations: Bo people (China), Buyang people, China, Coffin, Donglan County, Ethnic groups in Chinese history, Fujian, Funeral, Gong County, Sichuan, Guangxi, Hongshui River, Hubei, Indonesia, Jiangxi, Ku language, Luzon, Mandarin Chinese, Mount Longhu, Philippines, Qiubei County, Qutang Gorge, Sagada, Sichuan, South China Morning Post, Sulawesi, Three Gorges, Toraja, Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Wuyi Mountains, Yibin, Yingtan, Yunnan, Zigui County.

Bo people (China)

The Bo people are a small minority population in Southern China, famous for their hanging coffins.

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Buyang people

The Buyang people are an officially unrecognized Kra ethnic group living in Wenshan Prefecture, Yunnan and Napo County, Guangxi in China.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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Coffin

A coffin is a funerary box used for viewing or keeping a corpse, either for burial or cremation.

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Donglan County

Donglan County (zhuang: Dunghlanz Yen) is a county of northwest Guangxi, China.

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Ethnic groups in Chinese history

Ethnic groups in Chinese history refer to various or presumed ethnicities of significance to the history of China, gathered through the study of Classical Chinese literature, Chinese and non-Chinese literary sources and inscriptions, historical linguistics, and archaeological research.

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Fujian

Fujian (pronounced), formerly romanised as Foken, Fouken, Fukien, and Hokkien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China.

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Funeral

A funeral is a ceremony connected with the burial, cremation, or interment of a corpse, or the burial (or equivalent) with the attendant observances.

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Gong County, Sichuan

Gong County or Gongxian is a county located in southern Sichuan Province, China.

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Guangxi

Guangxi (pronounced; Zhuang: Gvangjsih), officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a Chinese autonomous region in South Central China, bordering Vietnam.

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Hongshui River

The Hongshui River is a major river in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in Southern China.

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Hubei

Hubei is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the Central China region.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Jiangxi

Jiangxi, formerly spelled as Kiangsi Gan: Kongsi) is a province in the People's Republic of China, located in the southeast of the country. Spanning from the banks of the Yangtze river in the north into hillier areas in the south and east, it shares a border with Anhui to the north, Zhejiang to the northeast, Fujian to the east, Guangdong to the south, Hunan to the west, and Hubei to the northwest. The name "Jiangxi" derives from the circuit administrated under the Tang dynasty in 733, Jiangnanxidao (道, Circuit of Western Jiangnan; Gan: Kongnomsitau). The short name for Jiangxi is 赣 (pinyin: Gàn; Gan: Gōm), for the Gan River which runs across from the south to the north and flows into the Yangtze River. Jiangxi is also alternately called Ganpo Dadi (贛鄱大地) which literally means the "Great Land of Gan and Po".

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Ku language

Ku (autonym: ku˥) is a Loloish language cluster of southeastern Yunnan, China.

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Luzon

Luzon is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Mount Longhu

Mount Longhu (Gan: Lung-fu San), is located in Jiangxi, China.

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Philippines

The Philippines (Pilipinas or Filipinas), officially the Republic of the Philippines (Republika ng Pilipinas), is a unitary sovereign and archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Qiubei County

Qiubei County (丘北县; pinyin: Qiūběi Xiàn) is located in Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan province, China.

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Qutang Gorge

The Qutang Gorge is the shortest and most spectacular of China's Three Gorges.

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Sagada

, officially the is a settlement_text in the province of,. According to the, it has a population of people.

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Sichuan

Sichuan, formerly romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan, is a province in southwest China occupying most of the Sichuan Basin and the easternmost part of the Tibetan Plateau between the Jinsha River on the west, the Daba Mountains in the north, and the Yungui Plateau to the south.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (also known as SCMP or The Post), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper and Hong Kong's newspaper of record.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, formerly known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Three Gorges

The Three Gorges are three adjacent gorges along the middle reaches of the Yangtze River, in the hinterland of the People's Republic of China.

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Toraja

The Toraja are an ethnic group indigenous to a mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in southeastern Yunnan province, People's Republic of China, and the easternmost prefecture-level division of the province.

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Wuyi Mountains

The Wuyi Mountains (also known as Bohea Hills in earlier Western documents) are a mountain range located in the prefecture of Nanping, in northern Fujian province near the border with Jiangxi province, China.

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Yibin

Yibin (Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi2bin1; Sichuanese pronunciation) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, People's Republic of China, located at the junction of the Min and Yangtze Rivers.

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Yingtan

Yingtan is a prefecture-level city in the east of Jiangxi province, People's Republic of China, bordering Fujian to the southeast.

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Yunnan

Yunnan is a province of the People's Republic of China, located in the far southwest of the country.

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Zigui County

Zigui County is a county of western Hubei province, People's Republic of China.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_coffins

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