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Do you know what cruel "bad habits" have been observed in human history? Do you know what indelible psychological shadows and irreparable pain these bad habits brought to the people at that time?
Today we will take stock of the five major bad habits in history. Foot binding and abdominal cutting are not the most terrible, and the last one is even more cruel.
First: foot binding
About 1,000 years ago, young Chinese women began to practice a custom, foot binding culture. Also known as wrapping small feet. When girls are about five or six years old, or even earlier, their feet are wrapped tightly with strips of cloth so that their feet do not grow naturally.
Then, in order to shape, they broke the girl's foot and became a serious deformity, which is very cruel when you think about it, and even more cruel is still to come. In order to keep the feet 4-6 inches or about 10-15 cm, adults will soak the girl's feet in herbs and animal blood to relax the muscles.
The toenails are then stripped to prevent internal infection and prepare for the final foot wrap. This is also an important reason for the inability of women to walk in that era.
This is really a very cruel bad habit, which makes girls look more feminine and walk in a better posture. In fact, it is a disguised destruction of the girl's feet.
Modern people will grind their feet when they buy small shoe sizes, not to mention breaking their feet, pulling out their toenails, and wrapping cloth around them, which is simply incomprehensible, fortunately, this bad habit was abolished later.
The second type: martyrdom
Burial is a funeral rite in India that is now very rare. However, according to historical records, in early India, during funeral rites, widows who lost their husbands had to commit suicide by jumping into the burning fire to show their loyalty to their husbands.
The system is called Sati, and at its peak, more than 1,000 widows in India died each year. It is very terrifying to think about, a big living person, to be burned alive by fire, that feeling, it is simply better to live than to die.
What is even more infuriating is why this system is aimed at women, when Indian society expected widows to be able to accompany them to the funeral, and put pressure on them to lead them to go to the funeral. The last practice was abolished in 1829.
The third type: abdominal incision
In 989, a villain appeared in the Fujiwara family, who was once in power in Japan, named Fujiwara Yoshi. He lived a rich life during the day, but at night he became a thief who did nothing wrong, harassing the streets and alleys of Kyoto, and later Fujiwara Yoshi was surrounded by officers and soldiers and could not escape, so he committed suicide by cutting his abdomen.
But he did not expect that in the hundreds of years after his death, the abdomen cut would become the noblest model of the samurai sword, and the warrior would cut the abdomen in order to reduce the shame in the hands of the enemy. The samurai obeyed the orders of their leader and would also cut their abdomen. Samurai defend themselves easily and cut their stomachs.
They will put on a white robe after bathing, and choose to cut the abdomen directly after the wrong person. Seeing this, many people will definitely ask what is the wrong person, and the samurai will not die directly after cutting the abdomen, but will feel extreme pain.
At this time, the wrong person will swing the knife and cut off his head, helping him to cut it off directly. Isn't that cruel? In the eyes of the Japanese, it is a supreme honor. My mom, it's unbelievable!
The fourth type: eunuchs
Eunuchs are real in the history of our country, and we can also see various types of eunuchs from film and television works, including Zheng He, who is loyal and brave, Wei Zhongxian, who is treacherous and vicious, and Li Lianying, who is funny and pitiful, and so on.
But in any case, the thought of them having their genitals taken away is always hard to understand, and one feels regret and anger at this ignorant habit.
The origin of the eunuch cannot be found, but it first appeared in the classics of China's "Spring and Autumn Left Transmission and the Second Year of the Duke", which has a history of more than 2,000 years. Castration of genitals in ancient China was not only a traditional punishment, but also a method of obtaining the position of serving the emperor.
It's also necessary to go through multiple cultures and training, and maintain a unique voice, which makes it cruel to think about. Fortunately, after 1912, this profession stopped, otherwise it is not known how many innocent teenagers have been deprived of the right to be men.
The fifth type: heavenly burial
Heavenly burial is a kind of funeral method of the Tibetan people, the heavenly burial is arranged in the morning, it is said that the sacred bird will peck at the corpse, if it is all eaten, it means that the deceased has no sinful soul before he dies to ascend to heaven, if he does not eat it clean, it means that the deceased has sinned before death, and the soul is difficult to ascend to heaven.
For these reasons, the burial needs to be carried out in the morning, otherwise people are afraid that the birds will eat something else and leave the body behind. According to the custom of burial, the family of the deceased will strip the deceased of his clothes, curl up the body, and bend the head to the knee area.
Just like the fetus in the mother's belly, it is wrapped in a hidden cloth and tied with a rope to park at home for three days. Then the celestial burial master performs a ceremony and divides the body, cutting the flesh, smashing the bones, mixing it into the barley noodles, and throwing it to the vultures to eat. The ceremony is complete.
Heavenly burials have existed in Tibet for thousands of years, and in 1985, the Chinese government also issued a special announcement on the protection of the Tibetan heavenly burial platform, protecting the heavenly burial, which Tibetans have supported for thousands of years of history, but in this way, it is still difficult for individuals to understand.
Today's topic: What other bad habits do you know in history? Feel free to leave a message in the comments section.