preface:
When it comes to the hottest film and television themes in recent years, it is not an ancient doll, and the storyline is usually narrated by harem women, who dare to love and hate, and dare to fight against power.
So many little girls fantasize about traveling back to ancient times, like them in film and television dramas, they fight monsters and upgrades all the way to usher in their own highlight moments.
As everyone knows, this idea is ridiculous, because the status of women in ancient times was very low, and even love, life and death could not be mastered by themselves, but the most terrifying thing for ancient women was the "burial system".
In the long river of history, most women have no right to speak, just men's appendages, which has been answered affirmatively in the excavation of more and more ancient tombs, especially in the royal tombs, the burial of women is tragic, and the most bizarre thing is that the legs are open.
So what exactly is causing this? What happened before you died? Let's talk about it today.
Burial originated in primitive societies
If you want to trace the origin of the burial culture, you have to start from the primitive society, at that time, most of the funerary products were mainly pottery, until the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, began to use animals and even people as funerary objects.
According to historical records, during the reign of the Shang Dynasty, there were more than ten martyrdoms (this conclusion is only from the statistics of the discovered Shang Dynasty tombs).
In fact, this inhumane system was opposed by many scholars at that time, but unfortunately the arm could not twist the thigh, after all, in that era, human martyrdom was a social phenomenon and a manifestation of power, and many emperors used a holy decree to bury all their concubines before dying.
When many of the emperor's concubines learned of the emperor's death, they had a feeling that the sky had fallen, not because of how deep the feelings were, but what awaited them in front of them was a terrible martyrdom.
When Zhu Yuanzhang died that year, zhu Yunjiao, who succeeded to the throne, in order to repay his love for his grandfather, the last gift he gave to his grandfather was to bury all of Zhu Yuanzhang's concubines.
In addition to the prevalence of human martyrdom in the royal family, many princes and nobles have also followed suit, hoping to still have the glorious life before they die.
Why are the legs broken open to become figure-eight?
In film and television dramas, we often see that before the martyrdom, the concubines are given a dignified death, but it does not reflect the death method of the palace women and the next person.
According to historical records, the royal family did not poison these palace women one by one, purely thinking that it was a waste of time, and the most direct way was to directly substitute them into the tomb, and then block the upper exit, so that they would fend for themselves.
Speaking of which, some people will wonder, won't they find an escape route? At this point, the royal family also thought that it would tie its hands before entering the tomb, control the ability to move, and without the tools to succeed, it was not realistic to dig up the tomb.
The most important thing is that the tomb belongs to the underground semi-enclosed space, the oxygen content is very low, after a large number of palace women enter the tomb, fear and panic will consume a lot of oxygen, and it will not take long to be suffocated alive.
It is precisely because of this that the legs of these women are basically incapacitated in the case of extreme lack of oxygen, and the legs are uncontrollably opened widely, which is the physical reaction of people before dying.
When we are asleep, we suddenly kick our legs, which is a response of the nervous system of the brain, and the legs of these corpses are open, showing how desperate they are before dying.
Fortunately, the system of human martyrdom was completely banned during the time of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and behind the prohibition was not "benevolence", but the qing dynasty's martyrdom was serious at that time.
Not only did it spread from official eunuchs to the people, but there were also cases of martyrdom of fathers, mothers, husbands, and even masters, and if left unchecked, it was easy to affect the foundation of the ruling class.
Nowadays, human martyrdom has completely withdrawn from the stage of history, from this point of view, the rights and freedoms of ancient women are beautified by film and television dramas, so we must cherish the current good life and stop fantasizing about crossing back to ancient times.