In modern times, from 1929 to 1936, Guangdong was in the hands of the warlord Chen Jitang, and in 1933, Chen Jitang, who was extremely superstitious about alchemy, built a bridge in Guangzhou called Haizhu Bridge.
During the construction of this bridge, there were often winds and rains along the Pearl River, and the bridge project was difficult to carry out.
In order to complete the construction of the bridge as soon as possible, Chen Jitang listened to Fang Shu's words, and when driving the pile, he drunk a pair of boys and girls, tied them in a crowbar, and sank into the bottom of the Pearl River to ensure the quality of the bridge.
The use of living people such as virgins and girls as sacrifices to buildings was called a pile in ancient times, and this ancient and extremely evil secret art, mainly used in the field of architecture, was very common in ancient East Asia.
I don't know when the specific origin of the pile was, and the legend first elaborated on this secret art was Lu Ban.
It is rumored that zuluban, a carpenter, believes that when people are carrying out construction in one place, the construction of large-scale construction will destroy the local feng shui and anger the ghosts and gods in this area.
Because of this, when construction projects were carried out in ancient times, accidents often occurred, which made people very afraid.
In order to calm the anger of the ghost god, it is necessary to sacrifice the living person as a sacrifice, buried alive on the construction site, which is a kind of sacrifice, and the person who is buried alive is called "sheng pile", after the sacrifice, it becomes the guardian of the building and maintains the stability of the building.
It is said that the Book of Luban, which records this secret technique, is not a simple book of architectural methods, but an ancient book that records a large number of alchemy techniques, including many strange Taoist techniques and related lifting spells, which naturally includes pilings.
In the past, when people were building mountains and roads, they often encountered various accidents, and people did not know it, thinking that it was a ghost or a god.
Thinking about it, people feel that the use of sacrifice to open up the relevant links can make the project continue smoothly.
Generally speaking, small projects, using some animals, many people build houses or something, will kill a chicken and slaughter a sheep, using all kinds of livestock and poultry as a sacrifice, but some relatively large projects, can not use this kind of livestock to sacrifice.
The construction of ancient palaces, cities and pools, as well as the construction of other large-scale projects, animals and other sacrifices were not enough, so people felt that they should use more precious gifts as sacrifices, that is, living people.
Man is the spirit of all things, and I don't know when this kind of thing originated, and people began to use virgins and boys as sacrificial gifts.
It is rumored that when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, he once ordered the construction of the pile, and the later Han Dynasty Chen Lin wrote in the "Drinking Horse Great Wall Cave Line": "The monarch alone did not see under the Great Wall, and the bones of the dead wanted to hold on." ”
From the pre-Qin era to the modern period, the custom of building projects with living sacrifices has never disappeared, and even in some dynasties it was very popular, especially after the late Qing Dynasty, especially in the southern region.
Not only in the Central Plains, such as the Korean Peninsula and Japan, there are also similar customs of piling up piles.
In Japan, there is a term specifically describing the sacrifice of the living, called "human pillar", these people are to worship the gods, in order to pray for the wishes of the heart, bury the living into the ground or sink into the water.
Many Japanese castles, when they were built, have been built with records of burying living people in the foundations, and this was still the case in the Meiji period.
For example, on the peninsula, there are also many records, usually used to build palaces, where virgins and boys were sacrificed.
On the whole, piling is an era when ancient technology was immature, and people felt that the use of living sacrifices could make ghosts and gods peaceful, so that the project could proceed smoothly and maintain safety, which was a very terrible and unreasonable technique.