What is a closet burial?

Ancient Chinese burial style. That is, after the death of a person, relatives coffin remains into the coffin, will be placed in the wooden coffin hanging into the cliff wall stakes, or placed in the cliff cave, cliff crevice, or half hanging out of the cliff. Often steep and dangerous, under the deep stream, no climb. Its custom is popular in the southern minority areas, the higher the suspension, said the more respect for the dead. Based on literature and fieldwork, in Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Guangxi, Fujian, Taiwan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi and other provinces and regions, there are such burial customs. Jiangxi Guixi Xianyan, Fujian Wuyi Mountain, Sichuan Zhongxian Wolmakan, Sichuan Fengjie County Kui Gorge, Fengzhou Gorge, Sichuan Gongxian Mathangba Crab Creek cliffs, etc., has found a large number of ancient relics of hanging coffins burials from the Warring States period to the time of the Qin and Han dynasties. Wu Shen Ying of the Three Kingdoms, "Linhai soil and water, foreign objects": "parents died, killed the dog sacrifice, made four sides of the letter to hold the body. After drinking, singing and dancing, it was still hanging between the rocks in the mountains, not buried in the ground as a mound." Tang Zhang gull "Dynasty Legitimacy" Volume 14: "Wuxi barbarians parents died ...... The parents of the Wuxi barbarians died and were buried in a half-ribbed niche on a high mountain in Linjiang. Suspension from the mountain bier, 弥高者 thought to coffin death has a coffin and not buried, placed between the rocky caves, high Jedi thousands of feet, or facing the river, do not apply shelter cover."