China is a country with a long history, for a long time it was a feudal society, and many feudal dynasties also appeared in feudal society. The emperor of the feudal dynasty is the master of a country, the supreme being, and the thinking of people in feudal society is also very feudal.
In this case, there have been many cruel systems, martyrdom is one of them, with the replacement and development of the feudal dynasty, the martyrdom system has slowly faded out of the historical stage, but by the Ming Dynasty, the burial system has been restored, and the martyrdom system is indeed somewhat inhumane.
Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the few emperors from a peasant background. According to various historical records, he loved the people very much and made a series of relief measures for the peasants. However, he was harsh and unusual to officials, and it is said that being an official at that time was not good than the current official, and it was also a high-risk profession. The punishment of corrupt officials can be said to be cruel and incomparable. I guess it has something to do with his poor origins.
According to Zhu Yuanzhang's will, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, his grandson Zhu Yunjiao handled his funeral and established a large-scale burial system. All the concubines who did not have children before Zhu Yuanzhang's death, as well as a large number of palace women, became Zhu Yuanzhang's martyrdom.
In order to keep their bodies from decaying, mercury injections were used, and they were carried out while they were alive. In order to alleviate the suffering of the funeral women, they would use drugs to make them unconscious, then make a small opening in the back of their heads, and finally hold a copper spoon, spoon by spoon to inject mercury into their brains. Although these women have lost consciousness, they are still alive, and under the influence of mercury, they will struggle with nerve reflexes, so that their legs appear in a figure-of-eight shape that has been broken.
Finally: This cruel system of burial was not terminated until Ming Yingzong, the sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Although Ming Yingzong did not have any great masterpieces before his death, before he died, he issued a will: Do not bury concubines. This brought Ming Yingzong's life to a wonderful end.
I have to say that this kind of burial system is really cruel, and ancient women are also very miserable, feudal superstition is not shallow, fortunately with the founding of New China, these feudal systems have also disappeared.