What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In the long river of history, there are two such emperors, who have made moves that countless people cannot stand. That was the last two emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Second Emperor Hui Qin. After Jin destroyed the Liao, he sent an army to attack the Southern and Northern Song Dynasties, and when emperor Huizong of Song heard the news, he passed the throne to the crown prince, who ascended the throne as Song Qinzong and jingkang. However, in the first year of Jing Kang, he attacked the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, Bieliang, and captured the Second Emperor Hui Qin, and the Northern Song Dynasty officially collapsed. In May of the following year, Jin brought the Second Emperor of Qinhui and other captives back to the north. What is the gift of leading sheep and giving the bath? Empress Qinzong of Song would rather commit suicide than endure humiliation!
This time, a total of more than 3,000 captives were captured, and these three thousand people were successively escorted to the capital of the JinGuo, Ning Province, and what awaited them was the "leading sheep gift" of the Jinguo. The captives had to take off their tunics, put on sheep furs, tie their hands, and then string the captives together with a long rope and come to the temple of Jin Taizu to prostrate themselves.
Speaking of origins, the ritual of leading sheep has a lot to do with the ancient animal sacrifices, which is both an expression of prayer and a kind of surrender. However, compared with simple livestock, once it involves people, the evil and insults are also real, so there are often strong people who commit suicide.
The Jin people ordered the empress dowager and empress of the Song Dynasty to enter the Golden Palace to "give a bath", the so-called "bath" is to bathe her, and then other men came to her, which was a complete insult to the empress, And Empress Zhu could not bear the insult, and committed suicide by throwing water on the same day. This extremely humiliating practice of captivity made the empress of the Song Qin Emperor humiliated and committed suicide after returning to the house.
And the women who became captives were defiled by the Jin people, and the ending was really tragic. The shame of the Northern Song Dynasty is to remind future generations that if the national strength is weak, what awaits is the destruction of the country, and it will be bullied. Not only that, the Jin people forced the princesses and emperors to change their unclothed dance clothes, and gave the jin generals wine for their pleasure and animalism, and they were beheaded on the spot if they resisted slightly. It is no wonder that Yue Fei has the feeling of "having the ambition to eat the meat of the carrot".