Ask a QuestionCoffin is one of special specialties of Liuzhou. Liuzhou is rich in wood, and Liuzhou coffin is known all over the nation. Liuzhou coffin is famous for its high quality, solid wood, tough and light, no insect ants, and long history. The ancients said: Be born in Suzhou, live in Hangzhou, eat in Guangzhou and die in Liuzhou.
Liuzhou coffin is famous all over the China and has the name of "dead in Liuzhou". It is said to be related to Liu Zongyuan, one of the "Eight Great Scholars of Tang and Song Dynasty". Liu Zongyuan went to Liuzhou to be an official, finally miserable death in a strange land. In order to commemorate him, the Liuzhou people specially ordered a good Nanmu coffin in the local area, pretending that his body was transported back to his hometown for burial.
Today's coffins are not old-fashioned burial coffins, but are made into a small and exquisite craftsmanship. It takes its Chinese pronunciation of "Guan Cai (official wealth)" and mean " win promotion and get rich", which represents the enterprising spirit of the working people. Now it has become a mascot. Up to now, its intrinsic quality and appearance design have been continuously improved and completed.
►Materials standards
Liuzhou coffin is good, first wins in the wood firm, tough and light, no insects. According to the Liuzhou Political Consultative Conference's Literature and History Data Editing Group, which was written in 1993, the “Yufeng Literature History" mentioned that a kind of wood used in Liuzhou coffin is called oil sand fir, which was born on the cliffs of deep forests and is difficult to produce in a hundred years. This kind of wood is easy to submerged, difficult to decay, scent like catalpa cypress, color like bronze. After making the coffin with this kind of wood, brush the cooked tung oil or raw lacquer several times, the quality is excellent.
►Timber Resources
Liuzhou coffins are good in quality and quantity, relying on abundant timber resources, especially in the upper reaches of the Liujiang River, such as Sanjiang and Longsheng. More than a hundred years ago, Liuzhou began to make coffins for sale, and its name was "Shoumu" and "Shouji".
Due to the excellent production process and complete specifications of various coffins, many outlanders even made special trips to Liuzhou custom coffin. As a result, the number of manufacturers of coffins has gradually increased, and Liuzhou coffin has a brand effect soon. Later, the cremation system was implemented and the industry was finally dead. The official name of Shouban Street is called “Changqing Road”.
►Transportation
Liuzhou's coffin is famous and has a great relationship with the geographical environment. Liuzhou's water, land and railway transportation are very convenient. Road network in all directions, inland water transport through Guangzhou to Hong Kong. The railway is the junction of Guiyue, Xiangguiqian railway and the railway hub of Guangxi. In the past two hundred years, Liuzhou has always been an important business in the southwest. Therefore, all kinds of precious wood in the upper mountainous area will form a wooden row after going out of the mountain, and will flow down and then transit in Liuzhou. Over time, Liuzhou has become a famous distribution center for wood and tung oil in China.
The coffin culture of Liuzhou is also very different from other places. The ancients referred to the coffin as a "murder weapon", and the shop selling coffins was called "fierce shop". In the eyes of the secular people, the coffin is an ominous thing. Moreover, the coffins sold are mostly simple coffins used for thin burial. Good coffin material is stored in the form of logs. However, Liuzhou's coffins, whether sold or reserved, are stored in the form of finished products, and the way of painting is very particular.
In the eyes of Liuzhou people, the coffin is equivalent to a valuable piece of furniture, with a good coffin, and outsiders will think that this old man is blessed. Many elderly people in Liuzhou used to keep a coffin at home, sometimes for years. Perhaps Liuzhou people hold a kind of attitude towards life and death, believing that people's life is doomed by heaven and should obey the laws of nature, so there is no need to deliberately avoid anything.
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