The burial system is an ancient burial custom, which refers to the burial of human animals, utensils, pottery figurines and other items together with the deceased.
The Shang Dynasty was a slave society, slave owners often let a large number of living people accompany the burial after death, in the archaeological excavations, archaeologists found that there were 16 people buried in the tomb of the women, and there were also living people buried in the tombs of other princes and ministers.
The burial of the living is a very cruel form of burial, and it also highlights the characteristics of the era of that era. During the Qin and Han dynasties, there were fewer living martyrdoms, such as the Terracotta Warriors of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, which were made of pottery figurines, rather than living people.
With the progress of society and the development of civilization, human burial has gradually withdrawn from the stage of history, and after the death of the emperor, most of them are buried in objects, and a large number of rare treasures are buried in the tomb.
However, when it came to the Liao Kingdom, the human burial system was revived, and according to the "History of Liao", after the death of Yelü Abaoji, Shu Luping killed hundreds of people to accompany the burial. After the rise of the Jin Dynasty and mongolia, people also began to be buried.
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, there were still people buried. According to the "History of Ming": "Taizu collapsed, and the palace people were mostly from the dead. After Zhu Yuanzhang died, he let more than forty concubines accompany him to the funeral, and some concubines were unwilling to be buried and were directly killed.
So why did Zhu Yuanzhang restore the human burial system? Zhu Yuanzhang was an uneducated person, and he was also convinced of the set of things in the ancient times, believing that after these concubines died, they would continue to accompany him in the underworld.
Zhu Yuanzhang struggled from the grassroots to become an emperor, and he still wanted to enjoy these glories and riches after his death, so he let the concubine go to the martyrdom to satisfy her desires. On the day zhu Yuanzhang was buried, many concubines were driven to the tomb, and one of the concubines was very clever, and he begged the soldiers guarding the tomb to let her go.
The Yuan Concubine said that as long as the tomb guards promised to let her go, she would marry him. The tomb guards saw that the Yuan Concubine was very beautiful, so they rescued her and quietly took him out. The rest of the concubines were buried, and only the concubine survived.
The Yuan Concubine also kept her promise and promised to marry the tomb guard soldier. The Princess and the Tomb Guard lived together for ten years, and the two eventually had a child. Zhu Yuanzhang did not expect that his concubine and the tomb keeper were mixed together, and they were still in front of his grave.
If Lao Zhu knew, he had to be angry and come back to life! During the reign of Emperor Yingzong of Ming, he ordered the abolition of the human burial system, and since then no one has been buried in the Ming Dynasty.
In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, when Nurhaci, Huang Taiji and others died, there were still people buried, and during the Kangxi Dynasty, he ordered the abolition of the human burial system, and since the burial system has withdrawn from the stage of history. The human burial system is a cruel burial custom, a destruction of human nature, and a scum in Chinese culture that should be abandoned.
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References: "History", "History of Liao", "History of Ming", etc