introduction
"It's a pity that all the songs are paid for at dusk." It is the exclamation of the Qingming sacrifice in "Xiangchun Night Moon and Near Qingming". Since the birth of the Cold Food Festival (that is, the Qingming Festival), people have formed a custom to sacrifice ancestors on the day of the Cold Food Festival, and usually bring some food during the sacrifice to express respect for the ancestors. However, in ancient times, they not only had to bring tribute to their ancestors during the Cold Food Festival sacrifice, but also arranged many funerals for them when they died, and there were even living people in these funerals. In addition to burying ancestors, some races also sacrificed the lives of the living during sacrifices or prayers to the gods. Originally, these were speculated by everyone based on historical records, but someone dug up an incorruptible female corpse from the snowy mountains, which has been sleeping peacefully for 600 years, and her autopsy has made people's backs chill.
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On the mainland, the custom of living sacrifice can be traced back to primitive society, and although the mainland has slowly entered the slave society, these inhuman customs have not been eliminated. Like the Shang Dynasty, many cultural relics have been unearthed, all of which are inseparable from the sacrifice of living people. Although later the state stipulated that the sacrifice of the living should be abolished,
However, the actual implementation process is still more troublesome, some places are closed to the news, and when I know this policy, I am afraid that decades have passed.
Or maybe the people here live in a remote area, and the emperor is far away.
▲The ancient sacrifice activities in film and television dramas are filmed
Even if you make a living sacrifice, no one will know. Therefore, the inhuman sacrifice of living people was not completely eliminated until the Qing Dynasty. But this is only the complete abolition of the continental region, in the rest of the world,
There are still such habits, such as in the Americas. The maya of North America and the Aztecs of Central America have existed for a long time.
Even though these two civilizations had since been wiped out, their people still refused to give up the sacrifice of the living.
▲Dry corpse unearthed real picture
These cruel living sacrifices are complete
target
It is embodied in those who die as a result of sacrifice. However, because of its age, many of the bodies of the people used for sacrifice have decayed, but the Argentine expedition in the 90s of the last century, more than 6,000 meters high
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A female corpse was found in the snow of The Jako Volcano, which was buried in the frozen soil, and it was in this environment that the female corpse has not decayed.
Even the internal organs are very intact, and what is strange is the posture of this female corpse.
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She lowered her head, her legs coiled up like a human sitting, and she seemed to be alive, but she really had no vital signs. The expedition team brought the female corpse back to the laboratory,
After some testing and identification, it was found that the female corpse was about 15 years old, and through the comparison of features, she should have come from the Inca civilization 600 years ago.
For the girl's strange posture, experts also know the reason after the identification.
▲ Portrait of an Indian
It turned out that she had already been broken before she was born, and she could not move, so she could only maintain such a posture. Such a means can not be described as cruel, in modern times,
A fifteen-year-old girl is still just a middle school student, how is this approach different from the destruction of humanity? Why did that era treat this little girl so cruelly?
The girl came from the Inca civilization, which is reminiscent of the sacrifice of the living.
▲South American glacier real shooting
In the Inca civilization of six hundred years ago, there was indeed this bad habit, according to the data and historians' speculations, this girl may be the local chief's sacrifice, but the girl is certainly unwilling, the chief does not agree to let her go, in order to successfully complete the sacrifice,
To prevent the girl from escaping, they broke her hands and feet and buried her in the snow at a height of 6,000 meters. Perhaps in this process, the girl still has vital signs, but her hands and feet are broken, and even if she wants to escape, she can't do anything.
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Even if she climbed out of this huge pit, how could she get down these thousands of meters of mountains. Such a desperate situation is terrible to think about. However, the Inca civilization did not survive, and in 1532, Spain began to invade the world, and the Inca civilization was no exception.
They came to this land and killed all the people on the land, leaving not a single living person left.
▲ Spaniard picture
And the people of this Inca civilization may also know that sacrificing the living is detrimental to yin virtue, and there is no book on the sacrifice of the living. And the history of the sacrifice of the living, in addition to learning from this girl who was dug up,
Historians have no other choice. The sacrifice of the living is really creepy.
▲ Mysterious sacrifice scene of Inca culture
If it were not for the fact that the current society has a perfect legal system protection, perhaps there will be such a backward system that plagues everyone.
Especially in some mountain villages where the news is closed and backward, some people will not be able to escape their fate in their lifetime.
epilogue
This dark history of the sacrifice of the living, though gone, seems to have given rise to more brutal questions, such as the two world wars, which did not turn the world into a purgatory on earth. Which confrontation is not to sacrifice the lives of thousands of people, don't look at the modern wind and waves, there is also a dark tide underneath, if we all neglect protection, the world will once again face a crisis.
Resources:
"Xiangchun Night Moon : Near Qingming"