悬棺葬是我国古代南方少数民族中的一种丧葬形式。就目前掌握的资料而言,在四川、贵州、云南、湖南、广东、广西、江西、福建、湖北,乃至陕西的汉中均有悬棺葬。据元人李京著《云南志略》的记载来看,这种悬棺的基本特点是“人死则以棺木盛之,置于千仞颠岩之上。”而各种史籍所载的悬棺葬地区,古代差不多都是少数民族活动之地;有些地方,至今仍是少数民族的聚居点。本文仅就悬棺葬的族属及性质,谈点个人的管见。 Hanging coffin is a form of funeral in the southern ethnic minorities in ancient China. For the information currently available, there are coffins in Hanzhong in Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Hunan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Fujian, Hubei and even Shaanxi. According to Yuan Li’s account of “Yunnan Zhi Lue”, the basic feature of this coffin is that “people die in coffin, placed on the top of thousands of miles.” Coffin burial areas contained in ancient times are almost all activities of ethnic minorities; in some places, is still a settlement of ethnic minorities. This article only about the clan and the nature of the coffin, talk about personal management.