Serfdom in Tibet has a long history, as long as it is slavery, no matter which country it is, the essence is no different. But anyone who knows a little bit about slavery will have a deep understanding of how inhumane slavery is.
I believe there are many who think that as long as the slaves do not revolt fiercely, the living conditions will not be too bad, and may even be better than the ordinary poor peasants.
There are even people who think that slaves can't go hungry and freeze, after all, even slaves can't be inferior to the livestock raised at home, right?
To these people, I can't help but say that kindness limits your imagination, you know nothing about slave owners, there is no picture and no truth, and today I will show you some old photos to see how inhumane the serf life of the Tibetan serfs once experienced.
At that time, the Tibetan nobility occupied more than ninety-five percent of the land, and more than ninety percent of the serfs did not have their own land, and they could only survive by doing cool labor to the nobles.
(Picture from the network, the same below)
This is a slave working in the field, skinny, almost naked, look at the picture should be sowing, Tibet sowing is in April and May, the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in April and May is still very cold, and this serf is not clothed, only a few strips of cloth to hide his shame, it should be his only piece of clothing, and the years of wear have made it into several strands of cloth.
This is the quilt found in the home of a serf after the liberation of Tibet, and this quilt was built by their family for fifty years.
This was a serf with a back to the grass, even if it was a woman, she still had to do very hard work, and the slave owner never pitied Xiang Xiangyu.
Carrying grass, stones, cow dung, all these jobs needed to be done by female slaves.
Oh, and there was the need to carry the slave owners, and the slave owners didn't have to walk on their feet because they had slaves when they needed to walk.
During the day, like cattle and horses doing extremely heavy work, at night, they are not as good as cattle and horses, after all, cows and horses do not need to wear shackles to rest, and they need to wear shackles when they rest.
Strictly speaking, this can not be called shackles, modern prisons wear shackles worn by death row inmates at least can walk, and wearing this kind of shackles made of almost a piece of wood, but also several people chained together, that can only lie down, or sit, can not even turn over, wait for two or two days to work again before being opened.
Some serfs need to wear shackles even during the day, which are fine and can be worn to move around, after all, they need to be cattle and horses during the day.
Zoom in to see, this is the kind of shackles that need to be worn for many years.
After all, in the cattle pen, the cattle and horses can still lie down stretched, and the serfs are only worthy of living under the steps of the slave owner's toilet, and they can't even shield the wind and rain.
And what were slave owners like at that time?
That's right, sit back and enjoy it.
What is even more frightening is that the children born of the serfs are still serfs, they are slaves for one lifetime, they are slaves in the world, and when a slave gives birth to a child, the child must also be a slave in the slave owner's house.
This was a serf with his children at work, and his children were helping on the side.
And this child, at a young age, has begun to work.
This is the daily life of the serfs, will anyone else think it is not bad?
Once the slave owners are unhappy, they can decide their life and death in minutes, and as for the punishment, it is only a means of "disciplining" the serfs, and they can do it at their fingertips, but these punishments are simply inhumane to us today.
The serf had his hands chopped off, and yes, he was holding in his hands his own arm, which had been chopped off by his slave master.
The slave was recounting his past when his slave owner cut off his feet.
And he, whose eyes were gouged out. In front of him was the eye-piercing tool of the time, wearing the huge stone hat on the slave's head, and then smashing the stone hat with the stone next to it, and the human eyeball would protrude, and then use a sharp knife to dig out the eyeball...
You see, slave owners really hollowed out their minds about torture!
Not to mention, they can also peel off the skin of slaves, when I was a child, living on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, my family threatened the children and said that if they were naughty, I would peel off your skin. This sentence is very intimidating, because just thinking about it makes people's scalps tingle, and slave owners can really do it.
That's right, that's the complete skin of an adult and two kids.
What does this skin peel off do?
Some did thangkas:
And some are made into human skin drums:
How, does anyone think that slave owners don't mistreat slaves?
In the age of slavery, slave owners may not have mistreated livestock, but slaves were not even as good as animals.
In Tibet, it was not difficult to find a family of serfs. Because that base was too big at that time — one million serfs , and the total population verified after the peaceful liberation of Tibet was 1.15 million. In other words, except for a few who occupied the top of the pyramid of privilege, almost all the people who could be seen in Tibet at that time were serfs.
And today, we are seeing equal Tibetan residents...