As we all know, etiquette and filial piety walk together, the prophet is righteous and shameful, and then understand filial piety to both parents. In China for five thousand years, everything needs to pay attention to a "courtesy" word.
"Gentlemen have a heart of benevolence, and a heart of courtesy", therefore, in the period of feudal dynasties, the rules that people need to follow, large and small content matters, are very numerous, especially for women, rules are the basis of their lives.
The rules of life, in themselves, the more rules, it indicates the birth of riches; the more ceremonies after birth, in the tomb, the more types of burial, it indicates the honor of birth.
For tombs, which pay more attention to the burial link, the ancients believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and they were very afraid of the place where they lived after death.
Therefore, the world will bury the jewelry that the deceased enjoyed before he died, and at the same time, in order to make the life of the deceased better, he also does some specific operations, similar to using jade to block the "nine tricks".
Most of this treatment is concentrated in the royal court, however, for these nine tricks, everyone knows that the eyes, ears, nose, nose and anus, as for the other one, people do not know what it is.
Block the jade of the Nine Tips
In ancient burial matters, the tool used to block the nine tricks was jade, and people today do not know much about this.
It is reported that in a appreciation program, a female guest took out a jade cicada that had been worn for more than 10 years to go to the treasure, and this jade cicada was used by the ancients as a tool to block the nine tricks.
At that time, many experts saw it, and their expressions were also very strange. After all, this is used for dead people, more or less unlucky, but also taboo.
Then for the ancient people, the use of jade to block the behavior of the Nine Tips, in fact, most of them belong to the purity and flawlessness of the jade itself, and the history of the use of jade by the Chinese people has been very long, probably dating back to the Shang Dynasty.
At that time, people had begun to refine jade on a large scale, and jade was very rare at that time, and gradually became a symbol of auspiciousness and blessing.
Therefore, the ancients used this jade to block the Nine Tips, which was originally an auspicious meaning. The mouth contains the meaning that the soul can rest after death.
In that era, the use of jade was very exquisite, and there could be no deviation in the use.
Even in the imperial courts of the past, there was a department dedicated to the handling of this kind of thing, similar to the familiar ceremonial department, and many people in it were very proficient in funeral etiquette.
Then you need to be very careful when doing this kind of thing, and you need to pay attention to the use and choice of jade at funerals. Of course, the use of jade represents the noble identity of the deceased, and if other objects are used instead, I am afraid that it is not worthy of this identity of the deceased.
Therefore, the behavior of blocking the Nine Tricks with jade is usually concentrated on the children of the royal family and the concubines of the harem.
Later, in order to make the funeral complete perfectly, people also invented a jade-making tool, that is, a jade plug, a total of nine pieces, corresponding to the nine tricks of the human body, one in one place.
That is, the place where the body breathes out, blocked with a plug, mainly because posterity feels that there will be a soul when a person dies, and blocking it with it will not let the soul be completely scattered.
Knowledge of Yu Sai
For the jade plug used, there is actually not much gap between men and women, and the first eight tips refer to the ears, mouth, eyes, nose and anus.
As for the other trick, most people are more concerned about women, in fact, men are the same, this last trick is the reproductive organs of men and women.
Because of the difference between men and women, the shape and size of the jade plug are also deviated. So where does this last trick come from?
It was not until once, when archaeologists accidentally excavated the tomb of Liu Sheng, the King of Zhongshan Jing, that they learned the ultimate meaning of this last trick.
In the cemetery, Li Sheng and his wife were buried together, because they were the children of nobles, and naturally they would also use items such as jade plugs, and their skeletons would also have traces of these things.
It should be understood that due to the differences in genitalia between men and women, the jade plugs used will also be very different.
According to the investigation in the tomb, the overall feeling of this jade plug is like a lid, representing respect for the corpse, but after all, it involves the privacy of the deceased, and it cannot be exposed to the public.
Among them, the male genitalia's jade plug is roughly a cylindrical jade cymbal, and the outer shape is like a cylinder, while his wife's is a triangular gui-shaped style.
This is the legendary Nine Tips, in fact, if you consult the relevant ancient books, you can know that these two items are mascots, but also symbolize good luck and wealth.
For this object that appeared at the funeral, it was also roughly the meaning of wanting the deceased to rest in peace, and the theories about blocking the Nine Tips were also mixed.
Some people speculate that it is hoped that women can spread heirs as soon as possible for the husband and wife, and some people say that they can soar after death.
Most of these ideas are the subjective conjectures of later generations, and the idea of soaring should come from the expectations of immortality in the ancients.
From the medical aspect, it can be found that these nine tips are actually an important channel connecting the five internal organs of the human body, which in the eyes of the ancients, without blocking them, may directly flow out the essence of the body along these channels.
In addition, if you want to soar in the future, then these essences must of course follow the human body to go to heaven.
Therefore, future generations will think that the most important operation before the ascension is to block the Nine Tricks, preserve the essence of the deceased's body, and then be able to rank in the Immortal Class with a complete soul. In short, the idea is very good, it is a bit unrealistic.
Awareness of life
The dignitaries of ancient times, who attached importance to their own burial ceremonies, more or less hoped to use their own death as a starting point.
Then we will discuss the new life again, although the process is difficult for people today to accept, but it is a representative of their desire for life.
The ancients firmly believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and there would be large and small sacrifices before death, so they would also pay special respect to the body of the deceased after death, of course, it was necessary to exclude the poor people, after all, such a special honor, the people could not think of it.
Although the ancients attached great importance to life, we still need to recognize the ideological gap in the feudal period and point out the extraordinary means done in that era.
Although the pursuit between them is very simple, this is not an excuse for adverse consequences, and what needs to be known is that the evil things and misconceptions in them are not worth advocating.
Just like the system of martyrdom, after all, it is an unfair treatment to trample women and degrade and despise lives.
Constantly suppressing the status of women, and even lacking their own human rights, this is the dirtiness of ancient times. Therefore, for the record of history, it is also necessary to take its essence and remove its dross.