I saw from a recent documentary about the Hanging Coffins of China. So far no one had managed to unravel the mystery of how it managed to get that high. The documentary did show one of the last remaining coffins in Sichuan Province.

There is still much queries about them as they span from one area to another and furthermore from one dynasty to another.

Famous Hanging Coffin Sites :

Hanging Coffins of Bo People in Gongxian, Sichuan Provinve
Hanging Coffins of Guyue People in Dragon Tiger Mountain
Hanging Coffins of Guyue People in Wuyi Mountain

source: http://www.chinaculture.org/gb/en_curiosit...ntent_62632.htm

Could anyone shed any further light to the subject?

You link answers your own questions really, there were several cultures. I saw a documentary on the Sichuan coffins a couple of years ago. Like the information on your link these continued untill Ming. The culture was destroyed by the Ming Chinese, and the documentary even investigated some of their hill top forts where they held out. There was carbon dating of one coffin that was investigated and it was found to date to the Tang dynasty. The explanation was that the placing on cliffs was to get their ancestors closer to heaven.
The placement on cliffs is a difficult feat but such daring burials and explorations of sheer cliff faces has been carried out by outher ancient cultures, South American cliff burials of a different type still display a great effort by people to place them there, and skilled climbers are required even to reach them today.
Where there is a will there is a way.

Speaking of hanging coffins, we also have these in the Philippines.

Sagada of Northern Luzon

http://www.geocities.com/sagada_igorot/sag...ng_coffins.html
http://home.zonnet.nl/jneele/philippines/dead1.htm

This is interesting - wonder if there is a link between the hanging coffins in China with the ones in the Philippines. Also are there more in other places? could we be talking about a race of people moving from one place to another, leaving their marks behind?

It seems it is available only in China and the Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging_coffins

I think it is coincidental..no links between the two cultures..

I used to live close to Dragon Tiger Mountain and spent a lot of time exploring the area. There are a good number of those hanging coffins about and in good shape, that cedar really holds up. There's a tourist show where they demonstrate how they think they were put up there with ropes. I saw some in some column shaped formations with no obvious hand holds, they must have built wooden platforms.Or maybe when ancient astronaunts weren't busy helping build the pyramids and the Nazca lines they helped th Yue people levitate their coffins up.

Really interesting anybody actually open one up?

Why no one ever mention Qi Gong or psychic power?

Check this article out: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/ase/113/3/113_259/_html

Two ancient ethnic groups identified with hanging coffins are the Ba of eastern Sichuan and the Bo of the Sichuan-Yunnan border:
http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/71037.htm
http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/65826.htm
http://www.china.org.cn/english/culture/55407.htm

I think 'Guyue' here just means 'Ancient Yue', rather than a distinct ethnic group. Jiangxi and Fujian in Zhou times were inhabited by the peoples known generically as the Hundred Yue.



The Incas also did a lot of cliff burials.