The Bo people (Chinese: 僰 人; pinyin: Bó rén) are an ancient extinct people from the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of Southwestern China. They are famous for their hanging coffins. [1] . They were one of the various now extinct peoples from Southern China known collectively in Chinese records as the Baipu.

The most famous hanging coffins are those which were made by the Bo people (now extinct) of Sichuan and Yunnan. Coffins of various shapes were mostly carved from one whole piece of wood.

2020年6月10日 · Archaeological travel guide to China's Hanging Coffins -- the last remnants of the Bo -- a people who were exterminated by the Ming Dynasty 500 years ago.

In China, the coffins were made by the mysterious Bo People, an ethnic minority who used to live on the borders of China’s Sichuan and Yunnan provinces and the Guyue people. The vibrant culture of the Bo People developed around three thousand years ago, and the early Bo People aided the Western Zhou in ousting their Yin rulers at the end of ...

2016年3月31日 · The Bo people were an ethnic minority who lived along the border between Yunnan and Sichuan. The first traces date back to about 3000 years ago. Their ancestors helped the Western Zhou (1100-771 BC) to topple the Shan Yin Dynasty (1600 – 1100 BC). The Bo adopted customs quite different from those of their neighbors.

After more than two months of hard work, renovation of the hanging coffins of the Bo people in Gongxian County of southwest China's Sichuan Province has now finished. This has been the biggest ever project to stabilize and conserve hanging coffins in China. 43 have been restored and 16 previously unknown coffins have been found.

2017年4月6日 · The region is also home to one of the oldest historic mysteries in China – the hanging coffins that dot the waterways of the Yangtze River. Experts attribute the precarious graveyards to the Bo people who began this tradition around 3000 years ago.

This ancient tradition of the Bo people in Guizhou, China, involved suspending the dead several meters in the air off the face of a cliff. Inside these coffins, the bodies were wrapped in several layers of clothes and contained the personal belongings of the deceased.

About the Bo People. The Bo People were a minority tribe that once inhabited the border between today’s southern Sichuan and northwestern Yunnan province, for their earliest home was an infestation of thorns and tigers and wolves.

2021年2月21日 · First recorded in today’s Sichuan province over 3,000 years ago, the Bo were successful merchants before the Silk Roads existed, and were noted for entombing their deceased in “hanging coffins” on high cliffs facing the sun—as close to …