Tigers and leopards do not eat children, and owls do not take advantage of males.
Man is evil and birds and beasts, and I can succeed.
Love has to stay, and to go is intolerable.
I am suitable for my intentions, and I am also a few teeth and treacherous.
Shi En fell into the Nine Springs, and praised the loyalty of the other generations.
Tangtang Shejichen, in recent times, is like a public.
The air envoy Miao descendants are suns, called Yang De Shi Weng.
Reading it also made me think about the afterglow.
- "Shengyu wrote poems for Di Liang Gongsun to be co-authored" Wang Anshi
The so-called "tiger poison does not eat children" is a kind of nature, a kind of father's desire to protect the woman's instinct. Unfortunately, however, this is not a bumpy law, and if the tiger is contaminated with other odors or moved by other animals, the tigress will eat the tiger, and the sick tiger and the dead tiger will also be eaten.
In fact, in the homes of kings in ancient China, the drama of "eating children" was staged more than once, especially among some kings who lost power and power, and this kind of thing happened more frequently.
For example, at the time of the fall of the Shu Han Dynasty, Liu Chan surrendered, but his son Liu Chen, the king of the Northern Lands, showed that he preferred to die and resolutely disagreed with the surrender. When he himself thought that the general trend had gone, that the country was bound to escape the fate of extinction, on the day of his father's surrender, he took the family to the mausoleum of The Former Emperor Liu Bei, first killed his wife, then killed his own children, and finally, he committed suicide.
There is also Zhang Xianzhong, the Emperor of the Great West, who is a person who often kills innocents and is very cruel in ordinary days, and he is also ruthless in treating his children. When he lost Sichuan and Chengdu, he gathered his family coefficients together, held a "family meeting", and killed all his wives and concubines and young children, even his young son, who was not very good at talking.
Of course, there are those who are exterminated, and there are also those who are treated differently, for example: Zhu Youjian, the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he only killed his wife and daughter, but did not kill his son, the reason is that the gender is different. So, seeing this, the question arises, why do the emperors of the fallen kingdom choose to slaughter their wives and children before they die?
Their answer was this:
After Zhang Xianzhong killed all his own closest relatives, the first fierce general under his command, Sun Kewang, who was also his own son, said: "My own flesh and bones cannot be left for others to slaughter, now, it is up to you to be my successor." When Zhu Youjian killed his eldest daughter, who was only fifteen years old, he tearfully asked, "Why were you born in an imperial family like mine?" ”
So, from this point of view, these emperors who raised their swords to slash at their own flesh and bones, in fact, have their own unspeakable secrets, but is this really the case? In the author's opinion, their "eating" reasons are still relatively far-fetched, and they are too superficial, and the reason why they have such a move is actually a deeper reason.
First of all, the reason why these subjugated kings wanted to kill their children was because they had a "martyrdom" mentality. We all know that our country was a feudal society in ancient times, as an emperor, it is even more with a slave owner mentality, their desire to possess is very strong, they regard their wives, concubines, and children as their own private property, when the owner of the property wants to leave, how can they leave the property itself? Naturally, I will take it with me.
Therefore, they will slash and kill these so-called "possessions" one by one and follow them to the west.
The second reason is because of fear, and this factor actually occupies a larger proportion, because if they do not kill their children, as the descendants of the deceased king, they may face more cruel and inhuman punishments, such as: car cracking, lingchi, waist beheading, hanging, etc. These cruel methods of death will bring greater pain to the deceased himself.
In the feudal society of ancient China, there were a large number of cruel punishments, which can be called cruel, even in the Great Song Dynasty, which was praised by later generations, although the degree of civilization was already the peak of the dynasties, there were still a large number of creepy punishment methods.
For example, in "Water Margin", Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian and the planner and organizer of the event, Wang Bao, although she did not die under Wu Song's knife at the beginning, but in the end she accepted the punishment of the local Yamen and was sentenced to capital punishment and Executed by Ling Chi. Come to think of it, such an uncomfortable way to die, it is better to let Wu Song kill it with a knife.
There is a "Dongyue Temple" in Beijing, which contains all kinds of cruel torture equipment, and there is a "cell" less than one meter high. It is not appropriate to say that it is a prison cell, it should be said that it is a cage. In this small space, the criminal can never stand, and being locked up in it is simply worse than death.
After seeing these dark, cruel, and terrible punishments, it is not difficult to understand why the ancient subjects were so obedient, and it is even more clear to explain the real reason why these fallen kings had to "eat their children" before they died. Because, once the country is destroyed, the former princes and grandsons will be reduced to "Kou", they will be removed from the aura of the royal family, there is no difference with ordinary people, and they will face all kinds of cruel destruction, so their hearts will be full of terror.
And the terrible thing is that these terrible punishments have a very long history, and they almost coexist with China's feudal society. Many cruel and terrible punishments not only have a deterrent effect on ordinary people, in fact, the emperor himself is also afraid, especially when faced with the situation of becoming a king or losing, the monarchs of the subjugated country are often afraid that others will "retaliate for a tooth", so they must kill their children in advance when they have not yet suffered an accident, so as not to suffer more pain in the future.
It can be said that this move of the kings of the subjugated country is actually a barbaric wolf way, Zhang Xianzhong killed his relatives and flesh, spared his son, Chongzhen only killed his daughter and did not kill his son, in fact, he was still thinking about revenge in the future, and they hoped that one day they could retaliate against the enemy in the same way.
But in fact, such an approach itself will be hated by the enemy, and it is precisely because it has created a terrible result that the enemy will not dare to treat you in a benevolent way. Because the enemy also knows that if you do not cut the grass and remove the roots, you are likely to bring the same bad luck to yourself, and because of this, in ancient times, a vicious circle of revenge for wrongs was formed.
Resources:
["Shengyu wrote poems for Di Liang Gongsun to give to the same work", "History of Song", "History of Ming"]