China is an ancient civilization, with a history of thousands of years, in Chinese culture there are good essences, there are also breeding dross, some bad habits with the progress of society and disappear, but some bad habits have not been broken.
Today, I would like to talk to you about the three major bad habits in ancient Chinese society, these bad habits are not shallow, and there is a kind of "happy event" that is very cruel, but it is still rampant, especially in some areas of the countryside.
The first castration
"Castration" as a punishment, the ancients originally used this way to punish prisoners or prisoners, in ancient China was the Western Zhou Dynasty only appeared eunuch slaves, that is, the criminal or war criminal castrated, and then provided to the hostess for use.
With the development of history, castration was gradually determined as a kind of punishment, and Sima Qian of the Han Dynasty was subjected to this punishment, in addition to castrating specific criminals, ancient kings and princes would also castrate subordinates to prevent contamination with women.
In ancient times, castrated people were called "eunuchs" or "eunuchs", and the last man to be castrated in China was called Sun Yaoting, who died until his death in 1993, and since then there have been no eunuchs in China, and this inhuman punishment has completely disappeared.
Second, "incompetent people"
The "incompetent person" here does not mean that a person is incapable, but refers to the elderly over the age of 60 who have no ability to work, in ancient times, the agricultural economy was the mainstay, and once the elderly could not farm, they basically had no source of livelihood for a family.
Farming is a labor-intensive job, only young and strong people can do it, once they encounter a famine, the old man who has lost his labor force will choose to "wait for death", that is, build a tomb, leave a gap in the tomb, and the old man eats and drinks In the tomb.
The family sends a meal once a day, and adds a brick to the entrance of the tomb until the gap in the tomb is blocked, in fact, it does not take so long for the old man to die, and this bad habit of burying "incompetent people" alive was prevalent in Hebei for a while, and later disappeared from history.
Third, meditative marriage
Many people have heard the word "meditative marriage", and there have been such a bridge in some film and television dramas, usually a family boy dies when he is unmarried, and parents will hold a meditative marriage for their sons out of love, so as not to let their sons die alone.
This feudal superstition is to comfort the living and alleviate the pain of missing the son, but even if it is a secret marriage, the man's family still has to give the woman's family a bride price, and under the temptation of money, the evil of stealing and digging up young women's corpses has been spawned.
In some remote mountainous areas and rural areas, some female corpses have been stolen mostly because of the chain of interests of the marriage, and the author believes that with the progress of society, such bad habits will eventually disappear completely.