In my impression, Chinese pay the most attention to filial piety, and there is a saying that goes well, "Filial piety comes first!" In ancient times, there was a precedent of being Ling Chi for not filial piety, that is, Zheng Yan during the Chongzhen period was executed by Ling Chi for the crime of "mother and sister with a staff", as to whether it was an unjust case, I will not explain it in detail here. It can be seen that the crime of filial piety is very large. However, with exceptions, in The history of China, there are two dynasties that have a very cruel decree, that is, when the old man reaches the age of 60, he must be buried alive!
When it comes to burying alive at the age of 60, many people say that it was done by the Yuan Dynasty. By the way, he also mentioned stories such as the Han people's right to the first night, a knife, and so on. But in fact, they are wrong to blame, because the Qin Dynasty already existed. In the wild history records, after Qin Shi Huang burned books and buried the alchemist alive, he still felt uneasy. It is believed that the old people know the past and the present, and some people are more nostalgic for the old dynasty. So he gave an order, sixty to return the armor. For a time, the whole country complained and complained, and even had a tendency to rebel.
In addition, according to research, this custom was mainly common during the Yuan Dynasty, of course, the so-called "custom" of burying the elderly alive was not popular in the Han Dynasty who ruled the country with filial piety, nor could it be popular, but it was the most widely spread during the Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty is a dynasty established by nomadic peoples, as early as ancient times, due to the extremely harsh living environment, the productivity of animal husbandry was extremely low, and the nomadic people in order to improve the probability of survival of the entire tribe, while improving the combat effectiveness of the entire tribe, there was a custom of abandoning the elderly who had lost the ability to work.
Especially in the Mongolian Yuan period, there were many flower armor tombs in the folk, and these cemeteries were also called "clay pot graves" or "old people's caves". This special tomb was specially prepared for the old man of the flower armor. In addition, nomadic customs such as father-wife succession, which stunned the Central Plains people, arose in this situation. In the beginning, the grave was not sealed, at first the grave would open an opening, the family came every day to bring food to the old man, and at the same time added a brick to the grave, until the whole grave was closed, the old man was finally suffocated alive in the grave, and the shape of this grave was very similar to a crock pot, so it was called "crock pot grave".
Here I think of Japan, a nation that was also said to be a barbarian by Li Hongzhang at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and their history book "The Examination of the Mountain Festival" recorded the "custom of abandoning the old", mainly saying that there was a poor mountain village in ancient Shinshu, Japan, also because of the food problem, the old man lived to be 70 years old, the eldest son of the family would carry the old man to the mountain next to the village, let him fend for himself, to put it bluntly, it was to wait for death, this is to save a small amount of grain to raise the next generation, this historical record was also made into a movie.
Judging from the various legends of huajia tombs, abandoning the old and abandoning the disease was once an institutionalized custom in the primitive society where the productive forces were extremely underdeveloped, and in the era of Ru Mao drinking blood, abandoning the old and weak was a need for the survival and continuation of the race, but this bad habit really made people a little chilling in the future! Judging from the excavated ancient tomb relics, the matter of huajia tomb should have occurred in the Yuan Dynasty ruled by the Mongols! And the Qin Dynasty should be the first to become popular.