We would like to thank the viewers who brought to our attention the inaccuracy of our previous thumbnail; depicting the Philippine Hanging Coffins as opposed to the Chinese. We apologise for the error and have since rectified the thumbnail.
To be honest I didn’t expect you guys to do anything about this..kudos to you guys, but you need to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t happen. historical missinformation and historical whitewashing is a serious issue
Thank you for correcting this. Our history and our own gravesites are also very important to us. Not to mention, of course, the current political issues between China and the Philippines. Thank you.
I feel like the Bo people probably did have climbing equipment. It’s best not to underestimate ancestors just because we don’t yet understand how they accomplished difficult tasks.
I'd have to agree. In some ways, the ancient peoples were more advanced than us now. We are constantly questioning how they accomplished seemingly impossible tasks.
couldnt they have also created like, steps up to where they were putting the caskets? i mean, how else were they able to get the wooden pillars into the cliffs facing to hold the coffins?? They would have just did the same as the pillars and just made steps and then just removed the wooden steps and erased what they did
When they finally found the damaged coffin and the bones, 37:45, you could hear the sounds of children playing below them on the riverbank. It was then that I saw a link of sorts to the Han burials who bury their dead on the sides of hills so they could overlook the living. It would be a wonderful way for your bones to spend eternity, on a riverbank listening to children playing.
I just dont like the fact that they remove them from their final resting place. Seeing the skull in the plastic bag being put in the case being taken away is sad
@@jeannieloosthuizen2750 imagine in a thousand years future humans find the graveyard where presidents are buried and put them all in a museum with the presidents bodies and possessions they were buried with on display.
I am descended from one of the minority groups of China. My people still live in Yunnan and Sichuan. I've heard stories of them doing this as well because the majority Han at the time, who we were warring with, forbade my ancestors to bury their dead in the "ground." This also prevented them from being dug up.
I was privileged to see the hanging coffins and find out about the history of the Bo people 12 years ago when on holiday in China and we were cruising up the 3 gorges. We also drove through amazing scenery which was like being in another century. China is such an amazing country with so much incredible history throughout the millennium.
I can speculate that they technology that others may not understand. They were near cliffs and mountains so having a pully system or hang gliding is plausible..... They for sure can not fly like superman. I suspect they may have been able to "fly" but not fly-fly.. you know?
Bamboo is used to make scaffolding for building modern skyscrapers in China. Not unreasonable to think they could build the same scaffolding in the past.
Great screename! Serious question does it count as ancient history if they unfortunately were wiped out in 1600AD? If the tradition has continuity to a truly ancient period does it therefore count?
Now this is interesting. A strange place to rest. Maybe its because the cliffs are like the cross section of the earth. Still underground , but also closer to the heavens
Yes, that is remarkable indeed... they look fresher than 1700 cty catacomb coffins of Portugal... in rain and wind and snow... 1000 years... hmm... it's like those 1000 year old still edible eggs...
Aweee im an archeologyst, and i'v been excavating in China for a while, thru a scholarchip. Altough i never seen these coffins, but Chinese history and archeology never fails to amaze me. That He family i think deffinietly has a connection of Bo tribe. Their fetures seems different from Han features, and after we see reconstructed skull, i realy think Bo's are their ancestors.
I found this documentary so interesting. Yet another discovery of our “primitive” ancestors. One question came to mind that was not touched on in documentary : Did the Bo bury everyone on the side of a high cliff? Or was this reserved only for important individuals ? Their number must have been substantial if the Ming felt the need to wipe them out.
They have wood, ropes, man power, and are advanced enough to make silk but lowering a coffin from the top is not a thing? They could have built a small walk way up for those who would be waiting below to receive the coffin once it was lowered?
my thoughts exactly. they didn’t need to carry the coffins op the side. 🤦🏼♂️ they clearly did it by standing on the top of the cliff and lowered them down the sides 🙄
Here's the issue with that, it depends on where they can actually get to the edge from. I doubt these historians are illogical enough to make such a large oversight without reason after all.
The picture you used in your thumbnail is the Hanging Coffins from Sagada Philippines! Its also part of the tradition here in the Philippines especially in some parts of Cordillera Region. I thought this content would feature traditions in Sagada
There are several such posts. Would you be good enough to tell me what you know of this tradition in the Philippines ? How it came to be ? I think it a rather wonderful thing. And when the construct collapses,straight down into the river. Talk about honouring the dead. The effort is far from trivial. There is an Inca tradition of grass rope bridging so the footpaths between gorges are connected. Every year the suspension bridges are replaced,so the villages have an institutional memory of how to do this. Very different reason,but a common community skill of that village. This is not a trivial exercise. For this to go on for generations,there must have been a powerful desire. Not just a family,but a clan or an entire village would be needed.
This was my thought as well. I thought I could see signs of water erosion, but maybe I’m mistaken. I’m no expert, but common sense tells me that these coffins were placed there when the water level was higher. 🤷🏻♀️
I don't know why people are so nosey and isn't it scary when you think about it? You know people can't fly, even if they can it isn't normal. I'd say "yog dab xwb" and I'd stay hella far away as I can.
It's a shame that even after all these years, those who might be the descendants of the Bo are still bullied about it! If anything, it makes them unique and important!
Lol the hanging coffins on the thumbnail are actually the ones located in Sagada, Philippines. (Unless the hanging coffins in China are completely identical)
This is so amazing! My family and I actually took a trip to China in May 2000 and saw those hanging coffins and we were never told of its history so this is fascinating!
A lot of rope a lot of men working from the top and the bottom. One cave one bottom of coffin, one body, then the top. Truly amazing , beyond all words
Thumbnail picture is of Sagada, Mt Provice, the Philippines. A genetic study of Philippine genome released last month was Kankanays' (Sagada et al towns), and Ibalois' (Benguet) ancestors came from Taiwan, and those from Taiwan came from southeast China. Those from southeast China are not Han, but another group of people according to the study.
DNA analysis simply proves ethnic similarity but not place of origin. DNA analysis that is substantiated by archaeology will debunk your theory. Aborigal Taiwanese (including early Okinawans) originated from the Philippines and not the other way around.
I think this is a geology problem too, the river valley cliffs in particular. I'm not a geologist, so I'd love to know if one ever tried to reconstruct the ground level in those valleys before erosion lowered the water level. Could the cliffs have been shorter for them as a result? More stable? What are the cliffs composed of in particular?
Quote from my geologist friend “nothing significant has happened in the last 20,000 years” obviously that’s a tongue and cheek response but I think what he’s trying to say is the amount of erosion isn’t as significant as you might think given the relatively short geologic timeframe
I thinking the same thing what if there a part of the land missing and it been wash away? or what if those coffin were buried in that hill which is now half a hill?
@@mixeddrinks8100 they are hanging in a narrow river canyon. Pull up the location on Google maps. They literally have all of China surrounding the location. It would be easy to simply walk over and lower the coffins.
To admin there is many people already mad about your wrong thumbnail, pls change it. We already suffer from china bullying our country in real life, i support my neighbour to change the thumbnail 😁, love 🇵🇭 from 🇲🇨
In Nepal Himalayan region some people used to preserve the remains of their ancestors in the same way . Some remains still exist . It is an astonishing sight.
I would love to know what's in the coffins but I would almost feel wrong disturbing them. At the same time if they're left alone the wood will rot and they'll just fall away.
Yes, 'eventually' they will rot. But those coffins have been hanging there for 800-500 years (as scholars generally place their date within A.D. 1127-1500)... so that eventuality might be in the next couple of centuries. I think opening the coffins would definitely solve a lot of mysteries. For example, collecting DNA from the skeletons will throw light on the fate of the Bo people (i.e. where their descendants are today).
I love how nowadays they have a safety inspector when years ago they climbed that Cliff freehand with a coffin on her back it's all so incredible how the coffins have remained where they wear securely placed for so long through all the weather and wind and they haven't moved
how did the hanging material such as the wood partitions which hold the coffin last until now for decades? that's magical. is it because the high elevation with the lower temperature declines the weathering to the materials? or maybe the past people used certain special wood and set it with a special method? what a magical mystery!
34:37 I was listening to the story intently. Then, he said the Bo commander flew away with two soldiers under his arms. I will not say it didn't happen. But, I have to see something like that to believe it.
Many years ago, these peoples are very good in kungfu skills where they can get up there very easily. Their kungfu skills are real and super, no tricks like today.
Absolutely love this channel! Can’t get enough, it amazes me how far science has come where we can get a pretty good idea of what a 1000 year old person looked liked and that just amazes me,all from half a skull! Genetics is such an interesting topic
What timber and wooden scaffold is still supporting that weight? those wooden supports must be hundreds of years old yet they look strong. did I see bamboo supports ?
I really don't get it why people like to teasing another tribe, that's sad. When they said they live by denying their ancestors, I mean not very open about it towards another people because they'll get mocked that's a heartbroken. Kinda living in a shadow :(( Anyone know why would they doing that? I mean it's 21st century now, are they still getting killed? I'm sincerely apologize if my words a little sensitive
Thanks @timeline for correcting your thumbnails. Not only "China" have the hanging coffins. We also have, even before the European conquistadors came it is already a practice here especially in here in mountainous part of the Philippines. Remember timeline your contents are history and we the watchers learn something from you.👍☺
This is absolutely fascinating. It's interesting how the ancient tribes of China are so like the ancient tribes here in the US. They, too, had "sky burials" (though not like these) and siege warfare resulting in near genocides. It just goes to show how much people have in common, no matter where. It was kinda crazy how they drove into the middle of nowhere on a path westerners would not recognize as a road, then hiked two hours along the Chinese equivalent of a cattle trail, and just when you think they're in the nowhere part of nowhere, there's suddenly a very impressive bridge! (19:20)
Doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to get to nowadays tho? Helicopters fly in much lower, more precise and more dangerous conditions every single day rescuing people from mountain tops. Just take a helicopter have people repel down to the coffins. Maybe even lower a platform and load coffins onto the platform and then lower them onto the top of the mountain to be examined before replacing them. I just think there are way easier and much quicker ways to get to the coffins then crossing a heavy current river and then climbing straight up.
@jettmcleod4469 Dude you talk about other countries' governments disparagingly when you're LITERALLY FROM A WESTERN COUNTRY. Have some self awareness. Do you know most Chinese support their government? You don't know better than they do.
this video's thumbnail caught me because it was familiar... and i realized the picture of the hanging coffins is actually the hanging coffins in our place Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. Please use the correct images for your thumbnails!!
Fascinating documentary... would love to learn more about these ancient people... China has thousands of years of culture and people we could learn a lot from...
China is such a beautiful land. There is still so much that is unknown or not found. In the West we are now busying ourselves with the Chinese economy and politics and we forget that behind all this the huge country has so much more to offer. It’s culture and it’s (friendly) people are greatly underestimated. This documentary is super interesting. Indeed burying your loved ones high on cliffs isn’t that usual.
3:44 . as a vietnamese I dont agree with this map with the 9-dash line. this map is useless and that dash line is illegal. great video by the way, but as long as people use that map with that kind of line, i would keep reminding people that it is not right and the map with the dash line should not be used.
I believe there may be a far more simple reason for this. We grieve for our dead because of their absence in our lives. If I had the option to place my deceased loved ones in a high, safe, visible location overlooking the area I lived, where I could look up at any time throughout the day and see the very casket in which my beloved family member slept, I would endure any means necessary to accomplish this.
It’s a bit insulting that you used a picture of the Hanging Coffins of Sagada which is in the Philippines, and use it for the thumbnail of a documentary about China while there is a hot territorial dispute going on between the two countries.
I wonder if there was any other cliffs around it or trees that the people might of used. I'm sure the landscape looked completely different x amount of years ago.
this is just soooo ridiculous.. they obviously didn’t carry the coffins up the sides 🤦🏼♂️ they lowered the coffins down the walls from the top of the cliff. 🙄 why are people insisting on being so stupid and ignorant, choosing to make life more difficult and complicated for them self and refusing to acknowledging what’s right in front of them.
This is my ancestry buried.. My parents have an written down on a shaman's enchanting. This was the last passed down words about where our ancestors came from before my mom passed away.
I have a feeling that those people didn’t want to tell the real truth .At 31:51 there are wooden made figures which looked like the custom in Toraja in Sulawesi. People there called these figures Tautau. They are the passed-away family/ancestor who stand there to look over the rest of the family..This folk believe the dead family is still with them.
I think I understand. These people were under attack, and since they believed so adamantly that if the body's ended up becoming missing or dismembered or desecrated that they wouldn't come back in the afterlife. Well they were under attack by the enemy, the only safe place that they had to build Graves on was on the cliffs that's the only place they could bury. That's the only place they can work they were quiet workers. It was the only safe place they could work.
I think my first question would not be how they did it but whether when they did it was the geography different, less daunting and dangerous, as the some if what is now sheer cliff become so in 1000 years if powerful flash floods removing what may have been geology that was a bit easier to scale, and were putting them up above where a flash flood could disinter them some of the reason they are where they are? Besides the geology which may have changed in a 1000 years, so could have easier ways of buying the dead high above the river and risk of floods as I find it a bit difficult that one would accidently risk having to bury many simply to bury one. Is it possible that when they identified a shelf or eroded area the would hold coffin above any known waterline is it possible that ramps were built from dirt and mud as we have seen dating back before even Egyptians were building building of many heights and employing temporary ramps to reach the heights they needed to move things too. I believe the use of ramps was also a pretty ancient building technique and its said that is how materials for some parts of the great wall were moves into place. Certainly ramps could have been washed away during floods or only partially damaged but a ramp makes a good bit of sense and could easily be constructed. If in fact they did use more advanced system such as ropes and pulleys on would assume that at least one site would show evidence for where ropes systems or simple pulleys were attached to the rock face. My other concern is when we base what would have been a long gone civilization or culture based on what is found on a body. While we know that burials often take place along with items perfumed to be needed in the next life we can often make the mistake of then assume that they were clothed in or given for a journey symbolizes their everyday life. We often made mistakes of what everyday clothing was like from what they were buried in only later learning that special burial garments were prepared for the dead to wear, often of finer cloth and special design to speak for them in the next world possibly the better they were giving them better status or higher class. Same with the items buried with them that often are suspected of being tools for the work they did but were actually placed there to give the dead something useful to trade and so forth. Also, when you have a people that have disappeared due to genocide often nothing is left behind except why those that wiped them out did not like them or thought they were doing something that could only be resolved by removing them. There maybe a lot more to uncover about these people from what was written about them by those who wish to do away with them
When I first saw this video the first thing that came to my mind is that years ago this was land during an era that the burials happened as today. Then the river over the years kept cutting through the land and silting away soil and after years these coffins showed up. Isn't this possible.
If you take a look at that gorge and the distance between the coffins to the top of the cliff looks like it may have taken that many years and it may have taken this much time to get observed due to accessibility issues. Possible right?
We would like to thank the viewers who brought to our attention the inaccuracy of our previous thumbnail; depicting the Philippine Hanging Coffins as opposed to the Chinese. We apologise for the error and have since rectified the thumbnail.
To be honest I didn’t expect you guys to do anything about this..kudos to you guys, but you need to make sure that kinda stuff doesn’t happen. historical missinformation and historical whitewashing is a serious issue
Luh. Your making a false information. WE will report this to our government.
Go to Philippines. There’s also hanging coffins in Sagada Mountain Province.
Thank you for fixing this. 🙏 Kudos
Thank you for correcting this. Our history and our own gravesites are also very important to us. Not to mention, of course, the current political issues between China and the Philippines. Thank you.
I feel like the Bo people probably did have climbing equipment.
It’s best not to underestimate ancestors just because we don’t yet understand how they accomplished difficult tasks.
I mean climbing equipment really is that advanced. It is all pretty basic still just with much lighter and stronger materials. But a rope is a rope.
I'd have to agree. In some ways, the ancient peoples were more advanced than us now. We are constantly questioning how they accomplished seemingly impossible tasks.
couldnt they have also created like, steps up to where they were putting the caskets? i mean, how else were they able to get the wooden pillars into the cliffs facing to hold the coffins?? They would have just did the same as the pillars and just made steps and then just removed the wooden steps and erased what they did
They didnt climb up, the decended from the top.
So true we have to stop guessing estimating about things we are unsure.
When they finally found the damaged coffin and the bones, 37:45, you could hear the sounds of children playing below them on the riverbank. It was then that I saw a link of sorts to the Han burials who bury their dead on the sides of hills so they could overlook the living. It would be a wonderful way for your bones to spend eternity, on a riverbank listening to children playing.
You aint going to hear nothing lol.
@@OldDunollieman 😂
Yes indeed.
Your Soul wants to see what your Family is doing but your Soul is free to travel, it doesn't stay with a dead body it no longer cares about.
And a wonderful place for children to play...with a dead body over their heads.
Ancient culture: "yes, this will keep our dead safe from disturbance". Modern archaeologists.... "hold my beer."
I just dont like the fact that they remove them from their final resting place. Seeing the skull in the plastic bag being put in the case being taken away is sad
@@jeannieloosthuizen2750 imagine in a thousand years future humans find the graveyard where presidents are buried and put them all in a museum with the presidents bodies and possessions they were buried with on display.
@@brettnelson7518 I think Futurama did that one already! 😆
@@jeannieloosthuizen2750 are you dutch?
Yeah but they are documenting it
I am descended from one of the minority groups of China. My people still live in Yunnan and Sichuan. I've heard stories of them doing this as well because the majority Han at the time, who we were warring with, forbade my ancestors to bury their dead in the "ground." This also prevented them from being dug up.
you are hmong
I was privileged to see the hanging coffins and find out about the history of the Bo people 12 years ago when on holiday in China and we were cruising up the 3 gorges. We also drove through amazing scenery which was like being in another century. China is such an amazing country with so much incredible history throughout the millennium.
Yeah great history.. until now. Now it's just slave labour and extreme exploitation of nature.
I think the photo on the thumbnail was that of the hanging coffins in Sagada Philippines and not the one in China
yes you are correct
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Diba hmmm
Yes you are correct. This is misleading @timeline
Maybe they just think oohh just used Philippines hanging coffin photo there most beautiful than China 😂😂
Legends were told that the higher you place your dead people, the nearer and easier for them to reach the heavens.
Why not just find a nice mountain ridge to build a temple then? besides the whole theft issue, they should be able to protect a sturdy temple.
Wow! You must have watched the same documentary as the rest of us!
"...is it because, as legend tells us, because they could fly?"
"no, next question"....
Think that they were dropping acid.
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I can speculate that they technology that others may not understand. They were near cliffs and mountains so having a pully system or hang gliding is plausible..... They for sure can not fly like superman. I suspect they may have been able to "fly" but not fly-fly.. you know?
@@ninad205 Yes I can see that
@@ninad205 meaning?
So one man falls to his death trying to drag a coffin up a cliff so now there’s 2 coffins that need to go up this could take a while !!
Slezren Omega lol
@Stef Green lmao 😂😂😂
Perhaps only the remains of important people were stored this way. And normal villagers were burried?
😂
@@williamdrijver4141 or burned?
Bamboo is used to make scaffolding for building modern skyscrapers in China. Not unreasonable to think they could build the same scaffolding in the past.
Yes I remember seeing that when I visited China. Amazing.
without solid footing, what they did up there is impossible
Exactly
My thoughts exactly.
@@chadsimmons6347 they said in some areas there are holes which held walkways, the rest eroded away... that explains how they did it.
This is one of the more interesting documentaries on ancient history that I've seen
Great screename! Serious question does it count as ancient history if they unfortunately were wiped out in 1600AD? If the tradition has continuity to a truly ancient period does it therefore count?
Now this is interesting. A strange place to rest. Maybe its because the cliffs are like the cross section of the earth. Still underground , but also closer to the heavens
That’s lovely ✨
That makes sense.
*Wonderful interpretation*
So far I’m getting that the Bo were air benders….
Massacred by the fire kingdom...
Lmao my same exact thought😂
@@Immopimmo I know rt... It all makes sense now
I am also amaze at how durable that piece of wood is to withstand all that elements for such a very long time!
Yes, that is remarkable indeed... they look fresher than 1700 cty catacomb coffins of Portugal... in rain and wind and snow... 1000 years... hmm... it's like those 1000 year old still edible eggs...
The photo from your thumbnail is the Hanging Coffins of the Phillipines
Lol when i saw what was written on the sides of the coffins i was thinking, "man... Those coffins look off..." Lol
Timeline never seems to get the little details...
It seems like Philippines is part of China as they say...
its from the Philippines the photos you used in your time line research first......before you used it.....
I notice that too
Aweee im an archeologyst, and i'v been excavating in China for a while, thru a scholarchip. Altough i never seen these coffins, but Chinese history and archeology never fails to amaze me. That He family i think deffinietly has a connection of Bo tribe. Their fetures seems different from Han features, and after we see reconstructed skull, i realy think Bo's are their ancestors.
Can you send me links, sounds interesting
I found this documentary so interesting. Yet another discovery of our “primitive” ancestors. One question came to mind that was not touched on in documentary : Did the Bo bury everyone on the side of a high cliff? Or was this reserved only for important individuals ? Their number must have been substantial if the Ming felt the need to wipe them out.
It’s Beau Not Bo 🙄 lol
They have wood, ropes, man power, and are advanced enough to make silk but lowering a coffin from the top is not a thing? They could have built a small walk way up for those who would be waiting below to receive the coffin once it was lowered?
my thoughts exactly. they didn’t need to carry the coffins op the side. 🤦🏼♂️
they clearly did it by standing on the top of the cliff and lowered them down the sides 🙄
@@dominiquewinther857 yes, that was my first thought. Drop down from above and install a scaffold to support the coffin.
That’s my thought. Lowering a heavy load via road is much easier than carrying it up a cliff.
Bamboo scaffolding is very strong and we’ve all seen how tall the Chinese can make it 😱
Here's the issue with that, it depends on where they can actually get to the edge from. I doubt these historians are illogical enough to make such a large oversight without reason after all.
The picture you used in your thumbnail is the Hanging Coffins from Sagada Philippines! Its also part of the tradition here in the Philippines especially in some parts of Cordillera Region. I thought this content would feature traditions in Sagada
Yes wrong thumbnail picture ... thats sagada for sure
There are several such posts. Would you be good enough to tell me what you know of this tradition in the Philippines ? How it came to be ? I think it a rather wonderful thing. And when the construct collapses,straight down into the river.
Talk about honouring the dead. The effort is far from trivial.
There is an Inca tradition of grass rope bridging so the footpaths between gorges are connected. Every year the suspension bridges are replaced,so the villages have an institutional memory of how to do this.
Very different reason,but a common community skill of that village.
This is not a trivial exercise. For this to go on for generations,there must have been a powerful desire. Not just a family,but a clan or an entire village would be needed.
@@paulmanson253 hanging cemetery is still practiced by local tribes in the philippines mountain province...it's their culture and belief...
yeah... tsk2
Ha ha! Wen piman. Hyphenated names in latin letters.
This may be out of subject but I wonder how was the water level on that river bank thousands years ago.
This was my thought as well. I thought I could see signs of water erosion, but maybe I’m mistaken. I’m no expert, but common sense tells me that these coffins were placed there when the water level was higher. 🤷🏻♀️
@@LuckyLu602 exactly and no one mentioned it. Landscape shifts might play a role too.
I dont know about the water level. But it wouldn't be unreasonable to assume there was an easier path up the side that has since crumbled away.
To prevent coffins to be swept away by the roaring floodwater, or put the demises of wealthy people closer to the Heaven.
I don't know why people are so nosey and isn't it scary when you think about it? You know people can't fly, even if they can it isn't normal. I'd say "yog dab xwb" and I'd stay hella far away as I can.
This is my favorite ancient type of docu. This whole idea everything about it. The struggle to make it threw this.
It's a shame that even after all these years, those who might be the descendants of the Bo are still bullied about it! If anything, it makes them unique and important!
IKR!
The thumbnail is definitely from the hanging coffins of Sagada in the northern region of the Philippines.
@Lukas Loh after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
Lol the hanging coffins on the thumbnail are actually the ones located in Sagada, Philippines. (Unless the hanging coffins in China are completely identical)
If this is Bow coffin then that in Philippines must be arrow coffin. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Let's report to correct the thumbnail
Agree
The Bo people migrated to PH
@@ferdiebuenafe2222 after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
This is so amazing! My family and I actually took a trip to China in May 2000 and saw those hanging coffins and we were never told of its history so this is fascinating!
Humanity’s pre-modern history never ceases to be amazing.
We also witnessed hanging coffins on cliffs during our Yangtze River cruise. Pretty neat...
We were 1oo-2oo’ below during Mar’o5 cruise, maybe 1/4 or 1/2 of the backwater would become once the Three Gorges Dam would be filled.
Yes, I was on a Yangtze River cruise in 04 and saw similar hanging coffins on the walls of one of the tributaries. Fascinatingly beautiful!
Could it be since they have flash floods, that maybe the ground was higher up when they buried their dead?
Bamboo scaffolding. Or a walkway to the top and they lowered.
@@forevermarked5826 that’s what I was thinking too scaffolds
No they were climbing the cliffs
They beleive that the souls of the dead could reach the sky or the stars
That's right the water was high as the same level of the coffin was hang up there...
A lot of rope a lot of men working from the top and the bottom. One cave one bottom of coffin, one body, then the top. Truly amazing , beyond all words
The thumbnail photo isn't the one in China, but in Sagada, Mountain Province in The Philippines...
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
This story has left us " hanging "
Thumbnail picture is of Sagada, Mt Provice, the Philippines.
A genetic study of Philippine genome released last month was Kankanays' (Sagada et al towns), and Ibalois' (Benguet) ancestors came from Taiwan, and those from Taiwan came from southeast China.
Those from southeast China are not Han, but another group of people according to the study.
I was just gonna say ... Sagada
Great info 👍
DNA analysis simply proves ethnic similarity but not place of origin.
DNA analysis that is substantiated by archaeology will debunk your theory.
Aborigal Taiwanese (including early Okinawans) originated from the Philippines and not the other way around.
@Shunga Kha
Who are the Kankanays and Applai people then?
@@kahldiss2689
Reverse immigration happened after 1000 years also but from Indonesia to Taiwan.
That probably explained the language similarity.
I think this is a geology problem too, the river valley cliffs in particular. I'm not a geologist, so I'd love to know if one ever tried to reconstruct the ground level in those valleys before erosion lowered the water level. Could the cliffs have been shorter for them as a result? More stable? What are the cliffs composed of in particular?
That's exactly what I thought too. I'm surprised this was not considered, or if it was, strange that it wasn't brought up
Quote from my geologist friend “nothing significant has happened in the last 20,000 years” obviously that’s a tongue and cheek response but I think what he’s trying to say is the amount of erosion isn’t as significant as you might think given the relatively short geologic timeframe
I thinking the same thing what if there a part of the land missing and it been wash away? or what if those coffin were buried in that hill which is now half a hill?
I wonder if there isn't a cave connecting from the top or bottom to that seam, that's karst so caves abound
Or maybe.... just maybe, they rappel down from the top. |It would make better sense to lower something heavy then to pull it up.
But that would make too much sense
That was my thought too. Makes more sense to lower that to do an impossible climb.
But how did they bring it to the TOP to lower it down? If there was a road up it looking down it would make sense.
@@mixeddrinks8100 they are hanging in a narrow river canyon. Pull up the location on Google maps. They literally have all of China surrounding the location. It would be easy to simply walk over and lower the coffins.
Thank you for your insight o gifted one, now tell us how they got the coffins to the top of the cliffs before lowering them down.
To admin there is many people already mad about your wrong thumbnail, pls change it. We already suffer from china bullying our country in real life, i support my neighbour to change the thumbnail 😁, love 🇵🇭 from 🇲🇨
You are Right, they don't care this is how lies get out to the People. All across the Earth.
In Nepal Himalayan region some people used to preserve the remains of their ancestors in the same way . Some remains still exist . It is an astonishing sight.
Where exactly in Nepal? Please specify.
@@Gurrrrka_Badooooor I once saw a documentary , will try to recall and update you 🙏
Same here in indonesia , south sulawesi by the torajanesse and still do that today.
I would love to know what's in the coffins but I would almost feel wrong disturbing them. At the same time if they're left alone the wood will rot and they'll just fall away.
Yes, 'eventually' they will rot. But those coffins have been hanging there for 800-500 years (as scholars generally place their date within A.D. 1127-1500)... so that eventuality might be in the next couple of centuries. I think opening the coffins would definitely solve a lot of mysteries. For example, collecting DNA from the skeletons will throw light on the fate of the Bo people (i.e. where their descendants are today).
kudos to the narrator! she nailed the chinese names and even pronounced them with the right tones. it wasn't something i expected lol
The narrator is Chinese
@Slavic Melody you can tell from the accent.
Well she is Chinese.
Narrator is chinese, she speaks good english if you put it that way
That was really cute where they placed that new coffin. That was like running 50ft then telling a marathon runner you have done it too.
This was absolutely brilliant 👍👍👍👍👍
I love how nowadays they have a safety inspector when years ago they climbed that Cliff freehand with a coffin on her back it's all so incredible how the coffins have remained where they wear securely placed for so long through all the weather and wind and they haven't moved
No earthquakes in the region i guess
That was when men were *MEN*
how did the hanging material such as the wood partitions which hold the coffin last until now for decades? that's magical. is it because the high elevation with the lower temperature declines the weathering to the materials? or maybe the past people used certain special wood and set it with a special method? what a magical mystery!
Haven't some of the coffins rotted away along with the wooden supporting rods holding the coffins? Usually what goes up eventually comes down.
ROSE : Yeah what goes up it must comes down... Hsjsjsk
Incredible that in this case the researcher were handling the bones without using even gloves not to contaminate them...
Thumbnail you used shows the Hanging Coffins of Sagada in the Philippines
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
34:37 I was listening to the story intently. Then, he said the Bo commander flew away with two soldiers under his arms. I will not say it didn't happen. But, I have to see something like that to believe it.
Many years ago, these peoples are very good in kungfu skills where they can get up there very easily. Their kungfu skills are real and super, no tricks like today.
This one on your thumbnail is from Sagada in the Philippines.
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
Absolutely love this channel! Can’t get enough, it amazes me how far science has come where we can get a pretty good idea of what a 1000 year old person looked liked and that just amazes me,all from half a skull! Genetics is such an interesting topic
That last sentence of the video was an amazing closing 👏I felt awestruck
in sagada philippines, there r also coffins hanging from the cliff
the thumbnail is Sagada not in China
What timber and wooden scaffold is still supporting that weight? those wooden supports must be hundreds of years old yet they look strong. did I see bamboo supports ?
When you are the last of your tribe to die and no one is left to hang your coffin :(
Awww sad 😭
Sadge
The river and bamboo and cliffs are so beautiful
How many people perished while trying to bury their dead? I wonder 💭
I really don't get it why people like to teasing another tribe, that's sad. When they said they live by denying their ancestors, I mean not very open about it towards another people because they'll get mocked that's a heartbroken. Kinda living in a shadow :((
Anyone know why would they doing that? I mean it's 21st century now, are they still getting killed?
I'm sincerely apologize if my words a little sensitive
I'd like to travel there once the pandemic is over
It will never be over just reinvented. You will see!
And straight on to North Korea to complete the trip
Over? Lol. Wake up! There never was a pandemic. Only the new world order.
Just like that the n1h1 flu is gone replaced with a fake flu
@@steveodonoghue2772 Yeah. And the earth is flat.
Excellent documentary 👏👏🍿
My theory is that the Bo people lowered the coffins from the top of the mountain instead climbing up.
may be
Beautiful documentary.
I love how they spent 5 minutes talking about how no one has visited there. Then they walked a made trail to their destination 😂😂
it was not the same place😂😂
Thanks @timeline for correcting your thumbnails. Not only "China" have the hanging coffins. We also have, even before the European conquistadors came it is already a practice here especially in here in mountainous part of the Philippines. Remember timeline your contents are history and we the watchers learn something from you.👍☺
This is absolutely fascinating. It's interesting how the ancient tribes of China are so like the ancient tribes here in the US. They, too, had "sky burials" (though not like these) and siege warfare resulting in near genocides. It just goes to show how much people have in common, no matter where.
It was kinda crazy how they drove into the middle of nowhere on a path westerners would not recognize as a road, then hiked two hours along the Chinese equivalent of a cattle trail, and just when you think they're in the nowhere part of nowhere, there's suddenly a very impressive bridge! (19:20)
There is a history of sky burials in much of Persian history as well. Before Islam. Exposure on a raised area,or a special construct mound.
Good show. Thanks 👍❤️❤️❤️❤️
I clicked because of the thumbnail 😅
Doesn't seem like it would be that difficult to get to nowadays tho? Helicopters fly in much lower, more precise and more dangerous conditions every single day rescuing people from mountain tops. Just take a helicopter have people repel down to the coffins. Maybe even lower a platform and load coffins onto the platform and then lower them onto the top of the mountain to be examined before replacing them. I just think there are way easier and much quicker ways to get to the coffins then crossing a heavy current river and then climbing straight up.
China is so beautiful to me... So much history there!
the history yes, but the politics...
@@jettmcleod4469 i see no politics in the comment, why did you bring it up ?
@@bigbrotherdsad6535 idk, just adding my opinion
@jettmcleod4469 Dude you talk about other countries' governments disparagingly when you're LITERALLY FROM A WESTERN COUNTRY. Have some self awareness. Do you know most Chinese support their government? You don't know better than they do.
this video's thumbnail caught me because it was familiar... and i realized the picture of the hanging coffins is actually the hanging coffins in our place Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. Please use the correct images for your thumbnails!!
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
@@IFoundYourLunch nice nice.. thank you and God Bless
@@faithannchumacog8263 God Bless and hopefully things will be okay soon in our motherland :)
Fascinating documentary... would love to learn more about these ancient people... China has thousands of years of culture and people we could learn a lot from...
Would be a lot more beautiful if the Communist Party didn’t take control, a lot of historical things & ancient art was destroyed
The photo used for your thumbnail is of the hanging coffins in Sagada, Philippines...
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
I think there is an error with the coffin photo in the thumbnail.. that photo is taken in the Philippines - Benguet
Sagada, Mountain Province, to be exact.
Yup was going to say the same.
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
Ancient people's were really something special. From Africa to China to Europe and the Americas. What a fascinating species we are
There is a secret passage that's still hidden to this day you have to know where the button is
13:30..amazing how they pull the coffin up back then..simple but very2 challenging of course...how precious they treated their passed ancestors
China is such a beautiful land. There is still so much that is unknown or not found. In the West we are now busying ourselves with the Chinese economy and politics and we forget that behind all this the huge country has so much more to offer. It’s culture and it’s (friendly) people are greatly underestimated. This documentary is super interesting. Indeed burying your loved ones high on cliffs isn’t that usual.
3:44 . as a vietnamese I dont agree with this map with the 9-dash line. this map is useless and that dash line is illegal. great video by the way, but as long as people use that map with that kind of line, i would keep reminding people that it is not right and the map with the dash line should not be used.
Excellent and fascinating. Also scary! That climbing was so difficult.
remember that in previous time, there are kungfu master that can fly 😅
I believe there may be a far more simple reason for this. We grieve for our dead because of their absence in our lives. If I had the option to place my deceased loved ones in a high, safe, visible location overlooking the area I lived, where I could look up at any time throughout the day and see the very casket in which my beloved family member slept, I would endure any means necessary to accomplish this.
It’s a bit insulting that you used a picture of the Hanging Coffins of Sagada which is in the Philippines, and use it for the thumbnail of a documentary about China while there is a hot territorial dispute going on between the two countries.
No dispute, the South China Sea is obviously Chinese territory.
@@OldDunollieman oh yes really...everything belongs to China, right? Specially if it's something they can use and abuse!
@@OldDunollieman just like your mom...
@@OldDunollieman Covid is Chinese, not West Philippine Sea.
@@OldDunollieman oi it is the Philippines' by territory/location wise! The UN has already ruled it out
Seem better than buried in the soil which is full of darkness,cold and lots worms
I wonder if there was any other cliffs around it or trees that the people might of used. I'm sure the landscape looked completely different x amount of years ago.
Loved it. Thank you
I'm now curious if this has connections with the old tradition of Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines; Hanging coffins?
This is so fascinating.
In Toraja Indonesia there is also a grave like that.
Great documentary...👍👍👍
this is just soooo ridiculous.. they obviously didn’t carry the coffins up the sides 🤦🏼♂️
they lowered the coffins down the walls from the top of the cliff. 🙄
why are people insisting on being so stupid and ignorant, choosing to make life more difficult and complicated for them self and refusing to acknowledging what’s right in front of them.
Yes that makes sense.
@@tripzville7569 a lot of this so called “Documentary’s” are straight up BS, and spreading misinformation to people.
I wondered about that myself.
Yup that's how they did it in the ancient hanging coffins in here In Philippines
This is my ancestry buried.. My parents have an written down on a shaman's enchanting. This was the last passed down words about where our ancestors came from before my mom passed away.
The photo you use in the front of your video is the photo from the philippines 😄
Yeah, when I saw it I find it so weird cause I didn't remember that being in China...
Haha I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed it.
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after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
Some photos that you use is our hanging coffin in sagada philippines
I have a feeling that those people didn’t want to tell the real truth .At 31:51 there are wooden made figures which looked like the custom in Toraja in Sulawesi. People there called these figures Tautau. They are the passed-away family/ancestor who stand there to look over the rest of the family..This folk believe the dead family is still with them.
THANK YOU for Featuring the Hanging Coffin in the Philippines as your Thumbnail!
Wow! Ok that was worth a watch thanx.
The terrain may have been different in those times!!!
This is exactly similar to burial tradition of some natives in the Philippines in the North.
I think I understand. These people were under attack, and since they believed so adamantly that if the body's ended up becoming missing or dismembered or desecrated that they wouldn't come back in the afterlife. Well they were under attack by the enemy, the only safe place that they had to build Graves on was on the cliffs that's the only place they could bury. That's the only place they can work they were quiet workers. It was the only safe place they could work.
Correct.
That's not in China, it's from Sagada, Mountain Province, Philippines. (Hanging Coffin Photo Thumbnail) 😉
Philpppnes is in China
@@franka6790 NO Philippines is NOT a part of China. They just like taking our lands and waters :P
after getting in touch with them, they already fixed the thumbnail and put a note on the comment section. :)
I think my first question would not be how they did it but whether when they did it was the geography different, less daunting and dangerous, as the some if what is now sheer cliff become so in 1000 years if powerful flash floods removing what may have been geology that was a bit easier to scale, and were putting them up above where a flash flood could disinter them some of the reason they are where they are?
Besides the geology which may have changed in a 1000 years, so could have easier ways of buying the dead high above the river and risk of floods as I find it a bit difficult that one would accidently risk having to bury many simply to bury one. Is it possible that when they identified a shelf or eroded area the would hold coffin above any known waterline is it possible that ramps were built from dirt and mud as we have seen dating back before even Egyptians were building building of many heights and employing temporary ramps to reach the heights they needed to move things too. I believe the use of ramps was also a pretty ancient building technique and its said that is how materials for some parts of the great wall were moves into place. Certainly ramps could have been washed away during floods or only partially damaged but a ramp makes a good bit of sense and could easily be constructed. If in fact they did use more advanced system such as ropes and pulleys on would assume that at least one site would show evidence for where ropes systems or simple pulleys were attached to the rock face.
My other concern is when we base what would have been a long gone civilization or culture based on what is found on a body. While we know that burials often take place along with items perfumed to be needed in the next life we can often make the mistake of then assume that they were clothed in or given for a journey symbolizes their everyday life. We often made mistakes of what everyday clothing was like from what they were buried in only later learning that special burial garments were prepared for the dead to wear, often of finer cloth and special design to speak for them in the next world possibly the better they were giving them better status or higher class. Same with the items buried with them that often are suspected of being tools for the work they did but were actually placed there to give the dead something useful to trade and so forth.
Also, when you have a people that have disappeared due to genocide often nothing is left behind except why those that wiped them out did not like them or thought they were doing something that could only be resolved by removing them. There maybe a lot more to uncover about these people from what was written about them by those who wish to do away with them
why are you using Sagada, Mt. Province, Philippines photos in your thumbnail?
When I first saw this video the first thing that came to my mind is that years ago this was land during an era that the burials happened as today. Then the river over the years kept cutting through the land and silting away soil and after years these coffins showed up. Isn't this possible.
Clever thinking , but It takes millions of years for a river to cut a gorge though
If you take a look at that gorge and the distance between the coffins to the top of the cliff looks like it may have taken that many years and it may have taken this much time to get observed due to accessibility issues. Possible right?
In the Philippines, we have hanging coffins in Sagada too.
中国人はそのような不思議な歴史を持っています この素晴らしい歴史を私たちと共有していただきありがとうございます
同意しました、謎は美しいです