Throughout the history of China, there are many fine traditional virtues, filial piety is one of them, there are countless stories about filial piety in history, but even so, we can not deny that there has been a dark history of serious violations of filial piety in history, it is said that there was such a period in the Qin Dynasty, according to the law at that time, if the old man in the family has not died at the age of 60, he must be discarded into the mountains to fend for himself, and its cruelty is evident. It is only the record of Guan Yu's history that we can only consult in the wild history, so the authenticity of this law can no longer be verified.
The Tang Dynasty Han E's "Age of Magnificent Age" is a wild history, which records many strange things, including mentioning that in some parts of Yunnan, a custom of "crock pot grave" is popular, and children will carry their sixty-year-old mother to a grave on the mountain, which is dug in the ground, surrounded by green bricks, the top is capped with bricks, and there will be an exit in the middle, shaped like a crock pot, so it is called "crock pot grave". In the days before he was buried alive, the old man was lonely and miserable inside, unaccompanied for a long time, and waiting for his death to approach day by day, and also endured the pain of being ruthlessly abandoned by his relatives, being tortured inside, and worrying about being attacked by wild beasts at night, and the corpse was in a different place, this pain was hundreds of times more painful than being tortured by disease.
The emergence of this custom was based on the backward productive forces at that time, because at that time human civilization had just been born, and it was not known how to survive well, and there were only a few dozen people in a tribe, in order to be able to continue the tribe and continue to live, this idea was conceived. Food is the key to survival, and young laborers often occupy the position of leader because they hunt more prey. Some elderly people have lost the value of contributing their abilities because they are too old to hunt, so the elderly in these tribes are excluded, so once the old man is old, even if he does not die, he will use this method to force him to leave.
On the other hand, "crock pot graves" are also "filial piety" in another sense, after all, there are very few old people who can live to 60 years old in ancient times. But in modern society, it is a little too cruel for such bad habits to persist. The times are developing, people's life expectancy is also increasing, and society has also done enough to guarantee the old-age pension, and the existence of "crock pot graves" has become a real filial piety.
In the ancient society that advocated Confucianism, filial piety was one of the basic norms. Discarding elderly parents and self-destructing tenure is clearly inconsistent with the social morality and Confucian spirit of the time. Therefore, many people in the historical circles do not agree with the existence of the "crock pot tomb", of which Mr. Gu Jiegang explicitly opposes it for three reasons: First, Guda's productivity is low, the medical and health conditions are poor, and it is difficult for ordinary people to live to an "advanced age" of 60 years old, and secondly, discarding their parents is not in line with the mainstream Confucian ideas that flaunt "benevolence" at that time.
As for the end of this custom, it is said that there is a person who is very bold, his name is Yang San, and he hides him in his home because he is reluctant to his old father. That year, a rhinoceros the size of a scalper sent by a foreign emissary was encountered, and no one was able to defeat it. It was a good idea for Yang San's father to let Yang San find a 13-pound cat. In the end, the cat defeated the rhinoceros. A better result was that the new emperor took office and resented the old custom, so the crock pot tomb was abolished.