introduction
In ancient China, the status of women was very low, the ancient "three from" from the "Li Ji • Mourning Clothes • Zi Xia Biography", the book said "unmarried from the father, both married from the husband, the husband died from the son", from this point alone can be seen that women are constrained, they have no autonomy, can only be attached to their fathers, husbands and sons. In ancient times, there was a policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing commerce", and men's strength was generally greater than that of women, so men had a higher social status than women in that era. In addition, in ancient times, there were many wars, and the people who participated in the war were men, so the number of men was relatively small, especially after the war, the number of men was even rarer, so women were given another meaning - a tool for passing on the generations.
Men are noble, while women are lowly, they are only dependent on men to give birth to their children, they are not allowed to read and write, they can only learn skills that can please men, such as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and learn to be female red. Ancient societies had a ideological confinement to women, that is, they firmly believed that "women without talent is moral", such a deep-rooted idea, so that many women at that time also agreed with this view.
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In the "Female Commandment", Ban Zhao once mentioned this point of view: "Men are strong as precious, and women are weak as beautiful." To some extent, such a statement reflects the ancient prejudice against women, who believe that women should be honest and honest, and men should be stronger than women. Therefore, in such a society, the environment is also deformed, there are many rules that are restricting women, and if a woman makes a mistake, she will suffer great hardships. What we want to talk about today is that in the bottom of a pond in Guangdong, many female corpses were found, and after the archaeologists examined, they came to a conclusion and also unveiled a very cruel black history.
Every country has the most basic norms, the law, which not only constrains people's words and deeds, but also can become a powerful weapon for people to protect themselves, and it can be said that it is the key to making society harmonious and stable. However, this was not entirely the case in ancient law, and many of the ancient laws were very cruel and harsh, and the punishments they inflicted on prisoners were very cruel, and there were many kinds of death penalties alone, not to mention those who mutilated people's bodies.
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For women who had no status in ancient times, the punishment was even more severe, and there were even penalties specifically used to deal with women, many of which were lynchings. Because of the low status, there are many places where it is possible to deal with women who make mistakes on their own. Basically, lynchings are all for women, for example, if a woman gets closer to a man other than her husband, she will be considered to be against women's morality, and she will be lynched, and the most serious of all lynchings is to soak the pig cage.
In ancient times, the most important thing was the virginity of a woman, so there were also many people who slandered women from this aspect in order to achieve the results they wanted to see. The punishment of soaking the pig cage must be known to many people, that is, to put the woman into the bamboo cage, and put in a lot of stones, and then put the cage into the water, so that the woman will be drowned. Immersion in a pig cage is a serious punishment, and the women who are punished in this way are those who are considered to have lost their virginity. Because bamboo cages were previously used exclusively to transport pigs, the term "soaked pig cages" came from this.
Guangdong's green cave pool is very famous, many people like to come here to explore, because the pool is full of caves, so it seems very strange. By chance, a diving enthusiast found the bones at the bottom of the pond and panicked and went ashore to report to the police. When the police fished out the bones, they found that the bones had been more than a hundred years old. So they contacted the archaeologists and asked them to send experts to investigate the site.
epilogue
After the experts came here to investigate, they confirmed that these were the skeletons of women in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, who were bound by chains in a strange posture and were silent under the water for hundreds of years. However, after the establishment of the Republic of China, this kind of punishment has been abolished, and the social concept of male superiority and female inferiority has gradually been abandoned by society, and now more women in society can better protect their rights and interests, and at the same time have more voice and can develop in their own fields.
Resources
"Etiquette, Funeral Dress, Zixia Biography"
The Female Commandment