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Located 70 kilometers west Ningwu little stone west of the village is very quiet and remote valley. Depths of the canyon there is a quiet and remote Lane bend, the entrance stone walls such as doors, lush forest lane.

Shihmen Cliff is the first ever found north of the Yangtze cliffs buried a group of great archaeological value. This is quite mysterious Shihmen Cliff area.
Looking at the Shek Pik Shek Mun, not dangerous rock tall, and only 10To 20 meters high, are up and down steep smooth wall top covered with green trees shrubs, cliff hanging wooden coffin, there is embedded in the cave, there are exposed outside the stone walls, useful stakes support, it also uses iron chain hanging bundles both a coffin hanging alone, but also a double coffin in parallel, different height from the ground, but Jieneng see very clearly count as much as much as 11.
In addition In addition, the surrounding area on the hillside Shihmen, and Cliff sporadic distribution. Cliff Cave more in the cliffs to avoid the water cool and dry place such as height from the ground varies, there are nearly hundred meters, tens of meters, more than ten meters highUnequal.

Cliff hanging Shihmen way can be divided into the cave burial type, suspended, suspended pile, plank-style.
Cave style is natural cave in the cliff height to place the coffin or artificial cave; suspended high in the cliffs to the coffin with chains hanging up; hanging pile is a hole in the cliff, flat plug stakes , the coffin, push to the stake; plank-style perforated insert in the middle of the cliff pile, a micro-paved path along the cliff, the coffin resting on the plank road.
& Nbsp; if the embankments in Sichuan Cliff Ma Gong County group to more than 200 in number with the size ranking first in the country, and includes the path along the cliff due to Shek Mun Cliff, Cliff joints, piles cliff, suspended, caves and other type, the varieties ranked China first.

Cliff Shihmen found in northern China is by far the only group of cliff burial, great archaeological value.