悬棺

    东汉时羌江流域散居羌民，兴岩葬，于岩壁悬空处设棺。悬棺是羌族人岩葬风俗的实证。雅安为汉族和羌族的杂居地，至今碧峰峡的山民中仍有不少就是羌人后裔，所以这里留有悬棺的遗迹。据说大禹率众治水，功高盖世。羌族的先民是大禹的支裔，认为将死者挂在绝壁的悬棺中，可以使肉身悬空，灵魂便能上天入地，获取神力，庇佑子孙。就象藏族人崇尚的天葬一样，岩葬是羌人对神力的一种崇拜。

    Hanging Coffins

    Many of mountaineers in Bifengxia where the Han and Qiang minority people inhabit, are still descendants of Qiang. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qiang people scattered up and down the Qiangjiang River (known as the Qingyi River), when the cliff burial was popular that hung the coffins high on the cliff wall. Forefathers of the Qiang people were offspring of Emperor Yu who led people to control water and made remarkable achievements. After a Qiang person died, his/her body will be placed in a coffin and hung on the cliff wall, so as to take the divine power of Emperor Yu by inheritance. Such power can enable one to go up and down heaven like the god and ghost. It fact, it is a worship of divine power, i.e. the power of God.