The reason why people attacked the feudal dynasty was because in the eyes of the feudal rulers, many people were not even as good as pigs and dogs. Even the wives around them are free to abandon existence, and an ancient system fully proves this.
That is the system of martyrdom, which is a very cruel system. Some people say that the burial system is not terrible, what is really terrible is the method of death of martyrdom. Because it is so cruel and terrifying, it is not recorded in many historical books.
So how terrible is the way of death in martyrdom? Let's take a look at this creepy burial system today.
Brutal system of burial
As the name suggests, martyrdom is the need for a living person to accompany him to death after he dies. This is the ancient system of martyrdom, which actually lasted for a thousand years, until the end of the Qing Dynasty, when this cruel system disappeared in most parts of China.
China's martyrdom system first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, when human martyrdom was very common, and even many ordinary people practiced the system of human martyrdom in their homes. Husbands died and wives were buried all over China at that time.
There were even kings who induced the people to perform martyrdom for the princes and nobles, and such an event was recorded in the "Wu Yue Chunqiu", which was a story full of blood and oppression.
At that time, as one of the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period, the social status of Wu Wang lu at that time was even greater than that of the King of Zhou. However, his younger daughter was very cruel and willful, until once, the younger daughter accidentally died while playing, and Wu Wanglu was deeply saddened.
He held a grand funeral ceremony for his daughter, and the gold and silver jewelry was countless, and its scale was comparable to that of the kings of the world at that time. However, Wu Wang lu himself still felt that it was not enough, he wanted people to be martyred, and he wanted the people to serve his daughters underground.
So he thought of an extremely cruel trick, he ordered people to dance white cranes along the way, so that the people mistakenly thought that there was any sacrifice. Tricking the people into their daughter's tomb, and finally closing the door of the tomb, thousands of people were buried for the daughter of King Wu.
In the Qin Shi Huang period, there are also records of martyrdom, according to the records that Qin Shi Huang used a total of 1,000 craftsmen when building the mausoleum. These craftsmen built mausoleums and casting mechanisms for Qin Shi Huang, so they are very aware of the structure of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.
Qin Shi Huang was afraid of these craftsmen or the descendants of the craftsmen after his death, so Qin Shi Huang asked the soldiers to bury all these craftsmen after the tomb was built and perfected. The earliest recorded martyrs were in the Shang Dynasty.
After the Qin and Han dynasties, this form of burial gradually declined, and most of them used tomb figurines and pottery figurines as sacrifices. However, there will still be emperors who will require their concubines to be buried, and to show their position in the world. It's an extremely cruel system.
The system of burial does not generally bury men, but women. In ancient times, women were required to strictly observe the so-called code of ethics, and the marriage-for-wife order was very common in ancient times, which was actually a kind of oppression and exploitation of women.
The way of death of martyrdom
As a typical oppressive system in ancient Chinese tradition, the cruel system of martyrdom is simply heinous. The burial process is even more bloody, and the typical burial methods in ancient times are divided into three types, all of which are extremely cruel.
The first was the burial of the living, which was the most common and common burial system at that time. The so-called live burial is to bury a group of people in the tomb and let them wait for death in it, this method of feeling death little by little, so that the spirit and body of the martyrs endure intense pain.
In fact, burying alive is to suffocate people to death, and everyone knows that most of the tombs exist in the ground, and the air is thin. In the tombs, there are candles, rare birds and beasts, etc., which need oxygen.
Therefore, oxygen dissipates very quickly in the tomb, and when the martyr is driven to the tomb, the oxygen content will become very low. The martyr will slowly feel the feeling of suffocation, and eventually die because of lack of oxygen, and the death form is mostly blue in the face, which is very strange.
The second method is to sacrifice human blood, which is a bloody and violent form of burial. In order to keep the so-called tomb quiet, the princes and nobles came up with such a shady method, killing all the people in the tomb to be martyred.
Many of the people who were martyred did not commit crimes, and basically many people came to make up the numbers. The use of this method of burial by princes and nobles is rare in history, because it will lead to the rise of the people and affect the dominance of the rulers.
But this does not mean that this kind of burial system does not exist, on the contrary, this kind of burial system was very prosperous during the Yuan Dynasty. And most of the people buried were Han people, and the Yuan Dynasty was originally the ruling dynasty of the Mongols, so there was not much mercy for the Han people.
The Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were also the most miserable dynasties in ancient China. For example, during the Qing Dynasty, Han Chinese were not allowed to be officials, Manchus and Han Chinese were not allowed to intermarry, and court officials were unconditionally biased toward Manchus.
The third method is even more cruel, I don't know if you have heard of human skin burial. This kind of burial was not common in ancient times, but it was real, and the cruelty of its means and the evil of its behavior were rare in the whole world.
Human skin burial is the cutting of human skin inch by inch with a knife while he is alive. After cutting, the skinned person is still alive, and will eventually bleed too much and die, and some will die of pain.
The reason why human skin martyrdom appeared was because some nobles felt that pottery figurines, porcelain figurines and other items lacked human authenticity. In order to ensure that the martyrs can be beautiful, a person was peeled off and put on a clay figurine, which is called human pupae in history.
It sounded very creepy, and the thought of that picture was full of pimples. But it was very popular among the princes and nobles at that time, but not many people dared to be so cruel. After all, everyone is afraid of provoking the wrath of the crowd.
And most of the people who use such cruel methods of human martyrdom are local clan kings, just as the so-called Heavenly High Emperor Yuan. These people often do no evil in their fiefdoms, and it is simply common to burn, loot, and cause trouble.
And this pattern of martyrdom is such a bloody trick that a group of anointed children came up with. The chosen population is also random, not the death row inmate. That is to say, every citizen at that time could be skinned.
epilogue
The above three are the very common burial patterns in ancient times, which is undoubtedly an atrocity for the people. But many princes and nobles are tireless about this, and even the number of martyrs and the method of burial have become their competitions.
And this is also the worst tradition from ancient times to the present, even now it feels creepy to hear these ways, not to mention the people who encountered this situation at that time. As modern people we must resist these rotten traditions.