If the Bo believed that the spirits of the deadancestors lived in heaven, then maybe the hanging coffins were abridge between this world and the next, a stepping stone betweenthe living and the dead.

• 如果僰族相信祖先住在天堂，悬棺也许就是连接这个世界与下一个世界的桥梁，是活人与死人沟通的一个通道。