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悬棺葬是我国南方古代少数民族的一种奇特葬俗。上千年来它流行于我国长江流域及其以南的广大地区,东起台湾、福建浙江、中经江西、湖北、湖南,西到四川和云贵高原,南至广西左右江流域。悬棺葬在东南亚地区的中印半岛、马来半岛、印度尼西亚群岛和菲律宾等地亦有发现,甚至远播太平洋岛屿中的波利尼西亚和美拉尼西亚群岛。
Hanging coffins is a peculiar funeral custom of the ancient ethnic minorities in southern China. It has been popular in China’s Yangtze River valley and its vast area south of China for thousands of years. From Taiwan in the east and Zhejiang in the east, it flows through Jiangxi, Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan and the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the west and to the Zuo You and Jiang River in the south of Guangxi. The coffins were also found in Southeast Asia’s Central Asian Peninsula, the Malay Peninsula, the Indonesian Islands and the Philippines, and even the Polynesian and Melanesian islands in the Pacific Islands.