In the second year of Jing Kang, the Jin State played enough of the trick of torturing Song Qinzong, and finally attacked Tokyo, the Northern Song Dynasty fell, and the purpose of the Jin army going south was mainly to plunder resources, including materials and human resources.
Moreover, if you win the battle, you must have the appearance of a victor, so Hui Qin Erzong, the Zhao imperial court officials and a large number of concubines in the harem, together with gold and silver treasures, were all escorted north by the Jin army According to rough statistics, the number of captives was more than three thousand, of which women accounted for the majority, and the Jin people demanded that fifteen hundred young girls be sent to the Jin camp, and the frightened Song Qinzong ordered a large-scale raid on folk women, even at the expense of his own concubines, and the number of women who were sent later far exceeded 1500, and most of them were escorted north to the Jin kingdom in batches It was winter, the weather was bad and the road was long, and most of the poorly dressed Song Dynasty captives were killed and injured.
When they finally arrived in jinguo, there were only more than 1,000 people left of the 3,000 people. However, those who finally reach their destination do not have any good fruit to eat, because they will undergo a special ritual of the Golden Kingdom, the sheep lead ceremony, and as a result, many women have committed suicide in tears after performing the lead ceremony.
Among them, Empress Zhu of Song Qinzong was particularly important. She was only 26 years old and committed suicide that night after performing a ceremony at the Temple of Akuta in the Jin Dynasty. So what is this sheep-throwing ceremony? There's that much power. In fact, it refers to the surrender ceremony of the Golden Kingdom. It requires that captives must be bare-chested, wrapped in sheepskin neck nooses, and led by men like sheep, symbolizing that captives are to be slaughtered like sheep.
It can be found that the bare upper body is very critical. It doesn't matter if a man is bare-chested, but in the ancient times when chastity was supreme, the sin of a woman bare-chested was great, and it was no wonder that Empress Zhu had to die. Imagine if she didn't commit suicide, would she be able to take on the status of empress after the ceremony?
I am afraid that I will be drowned by the spit of the world, of course, men are fine, but for the men of the Zhao royal family, kneeling and begging against the ancestors of the enemy country, and being humiliated in front of the enemy army, it is also difficult for people to accept, but Song Huizong seems to be very tolerant, not only suffered from the sheep leading ceremony, but also lived in the Golden Kingdom for several years, became the father-in-law of the Golden Emperor, and also gave birth to eight children.