Throughout Chinese history, there are many fine traditional virtues, filial piety is one of them, and there are countless stories about filial piety in history, but even so, we cannot deny that there has been a dark history of serious violations of filial piety in history, because this scene is very cruel. The old man was sent into the cave by his son, and the son would come to bring food to the old man every day, and these historical stories about filial piety made us hear from an early age. But in folklore and wild history, there is a cruel custom of "crock pot grave". So what exactly is the content of this custom? For example, before the improvement of the Imperial Examination System in the Tang Dynasty, although the previous dynasties had the tradition of electing warriors, among the commoners, they always chose filial piety or people who were incorruptible and not greedy, so it was also called: "filial piety and honesty".
This custom sounds sensational and even makes people doubt life, but it does exist. The reason is simple, because ancient productivity was low and it was impossible to feed so many people. In the era of lack of food, there will even be cases of changing children and eating. But we also know that in ancient times, productivity was not as advanced as we are now, and in the face of famine or war, it was basically difficult for the elderly and children to escape. Before the seal, the old man can only wait for death in the narrow grave, every meal means that he is further from death, if the old man tries to escape in advance, he will be caught and directly lay all the bricks in this way, which can be solved in a short time, and the "crock pot grave" method is long, because every time the children send a meal to the old man, they will build a brick at the entrance of the cave
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In the Qing Dynasty, the "Reading Of the World" compiled by Ye Mingzhu recorded that Emperor Renzong of Song issued a decree to abolish the custom of clay pot graves. Legend has it that at that time, a monster appeared on the mountain near Kaifeng Province, and often came out in the middle of the night to plague people filial piety is a quality that everyone must have, which is also the most basic human nature. In this respect, the extremely cruel method of "crock pot graves" is untenable. They believe that once the old man is over 60 years old and still alive in the world, he will encroach on the life expectancy of future generations, and in order to maintain his life span, they will force the old man who has passed 60 years old in the family to enter the "crock pot grave" until the old man in the crock pot grave tells his son that Song Renzong solved the monster. Since then, Emperor Renzong of Song has abolished this bad habit. ????????
In fact, many experts have doubted the authenticity of the crock pot grave. Because in ancient times, we attached great importance to filial piety, and there is also a saying that filial piety comes first. In the Qing Dynasty, there were also the promotion of filial piety, and the emergence of filial piety and honesty in official positions reflected the ancients' emphasis on filial piety. In fact, it is the backwardness of social productive forces, the lack of local materials and even unmet needs, and the elderly production level has dropped significantly, these elderly people who are difficult to work in their eyes are useless people, but it does not mean that the people really do not have this way, because even in the modern era of developed networks, the customs and habits of each region are still very different, let alone in ancient times?
The reason was that it violated the mainstream idea of "benevolence" at that time, but Mr. Hu Shi did not think so, he believed that such a custom had already existed in the qin shi huang period, because the productivity was low at that time???? Waiting for death is counterintuitive, even inhumane. There is no doubt that "crock pot graves" are very cruel to the elderly and children, so why do they do this????? People's thinking has also been greatly liberated with the progress of the times, such terrible customs will not happen again, and changing customs and customs is to break away from backward old customs and move towards a new era.
The story of the abandoned old man in the mountains with the same magic has been heard in many Asian countries. Therefore, some scholars believe that in fact, the crock pot grave may be true. But it was not what we thought, but was passed down by non-Han Chinese and finally preserved in culturally underdeveloped areas.