Ancient slave society to feudal society, can be said to be the history of women's humiliation, ancient women are not like today's women, can dress up the flowers and branches to show the door, or work, or shopping, in ancient times women are completely human rights.
Slaves have no human rights, needless to say, but even the high-ranking empress concubines still have no right to choose many things, take the cruel burial system, they are completely victims of the feudal system.
According to archaeological findings, the burial system began in the Yin Shang period, when people were more feudal, they believed that after death, the soul would go to another world, and the tomb was the residence of the tomb owner in another world, and the burial was for the tomb owner to have slaves in another world.
Although there are several, dozens, or even hundreds of people buried in the tombs of those slave owners, most of them are samurai slaves, carriage and horse slaves, etc. From the information provided by archaeologists, it can be seen that those slaves were basically dragged into the tomb by back-tied, after all, obvious signs of struggle can be seen, basically most of them are buried alive.
After the Shang Dynasty, the Zhou, Spring and Autumn, Warring States, and Qin Dynasties did not converge in terms of martyrdom, among which the number of martyrs after the death of Qin Shi Huang was rare in history. (Those who do not have children in the former emperor's harem are ordered to die)
In fact, not only are the number of concubines and slaves buried in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, but also the craftsmen who participated in the construction of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum were also buried with Qin Shi Huang to prevent them from leaking the secrets of the organs in the tomb. (After the big event, the craftsman Zang who closes the door, there is no comeback)
However, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty took over the world, and did not pass on the life and martyrdom of the Qin Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty had almost no concubines to accompany the emperor.
It is worth mentioning that archaeologists have found the white bones of many palace women in Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum, and it is obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang adopted the ancient burial system when he died, so whether those concubine palace women who accompanied the burial were buried alive or buried after being executed first?
This question is actually very easy to answer, the concubines who are buried with them are basically ordered to be executed and then buried together, after all, burying alive is too cruel and affects the neatness of the tomb.
And there are many ways to give death, different dynasties use different methods, probably basically we are common in film and television dramas, such as imperial poison wine, royal white Aya, etc., see some people say to prevent corpses from decomposing and mercury treatment, it feels unlikely, after all, archaeologists rarely find mercury treated corpses.