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Relics from Cliff Tomb of Dragon and Tiger Montain
The famous Dragon and Tiger Mountain is named
after the figure of the mountain and locates 20km to the southern
suburbs of Yingtan City, it is the birthplace of Taoism. The first
chapter of the Chinese classic "All Men Are Brothers" "priest zhang
prayed against the god of plague, Marshall Hong talk about the demons"
provided us with a most vivid description of this scenery: "Hundreds of
peaks compete their beauty, while thousands of streams meander through
them. The waterfalls pour down from frightful height while creepers hang
down from every cliff." To the northwest of Dragon and Tiger Mountain is
the Celestial Water Rock Sightseeing Spot, the peculiar hills and
fantastic rocks standing here and there, hundreds of variety natural
caves are concentrated distributed in the cliffs, the wood coffin were
placed in the most of the caves, that is the ancient coffin hanging bury
custom.
Coffin hanging bury custom is a kind of ancient and special custom in
southern region of our country, it left us some historic riddle "which
race did this custom belong to ?" "How huge coffin wood was hung to the
hole in the cliff?" Archaeology workmen have been checked up the hanging
coffins here for two times, a large quantity of relics has been
excavated. |
