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Gong County or Gongxian () is a county located in southern
Gong County or Gongxian () is a county located in southern Sichuan Province
Sichuan (; zh, c=, labels=no, ; zh, p=Sìchuān; alternatively romanized as Szechuan or Szechwan; formerly also referred to as "West China" or "Western China" by Protestant missions) is a province in Southwest China occupying most of the ...
, China. It is under the administration of Yibin
Yibin (; Sichuanese Pinyin: nyi2bin1; Sichuanese Mandarin, Sichuanese pronunciation: ) is a prefecture-level city in the southeastern part of Sichuan province, China, located at the junction of the Min River (Sichuan), Min and Yangtze Rivers. Its ...
city. It is mainly known to travelers for the hanging coffins
Hanging coffins are coffins which have been placed on cliffs. They are practiced by various cultures in China, Indonesia, and the Philippines.
China
Hanging coffins in China are known in Mandarin as ''xuanguan'' () which also means "hanging c ...
, a site which dates back nearly 3,000 years and is attributed to the Bo people, who died out around 400 years ago.
Hanging coffins of Bo people
Hanging coffins carved from a single log are found in the areas once inhabited byBo people (China) The Bo people () are an ancient extinct people from the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of Southern China. They are famous for their hanging coffins. They were one of the various now extinct peoples from Southern China known collectively in Chinese re ...
.
Climate
Notable people
*Chang Xiangyu
Chang Xiangyu () was a Chinese opera actress who performed renditions of the story of Hua Mulan across China in support of the Korean War and who appeared in a 1956 screen adaption.
Biography
Chang was born in 1923 into a poor farming family in ...
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