Speaking of the Ming Dynasty, we have to say that Zhu Yuanzhang, he was a good emperor, a good husband, a good father, but not a good brother. Because he was fierce and fierce, with his suspicious personality, he got rid of all the brothers who had fought with him in the world.
Not only that, he also demanded that his queen and concubines be loyal to him, and after his death, all the concubines had to accompany him to death, so that they could go to the underground tomb to continue to serve him and serve his old Zhu, so he restored the martyrdom system.
In the history of the Ming Dynasty, the first member of the imperial family to enjoy this system was Zhu Zhu, the King of Qin, because of his rebellious personality, not only absurd but also like to abuse people, and was eventually poisoned and killed, after his death, his father Zhu Yuanzhang let his two concubines be martyred for Zhu Zhu.
According to historical records, after Zhu Yuanzhang's death, a total of 40 concubines were buried and martyred, two of whom died during Zhu Yuanzhang's lifetime.
These martyred concubines, in addition to being forced to hang themselves, also drank poisonous wine, buried alive, and poured mercury, which can be more cruel than one.
And before the Ming Dynasty, hundreds of concubines were forced to be martyred, it can be said that these women are very pitiful, but in addition to these concubines, there is another kind of poor woman in the list of martyrs, that is, the Chaotiannu. Her family is known as the "Chaotian Female Household." So what is a "heavenly woman"?
In general, "Chaotiannu" is a concubine, generally refers to a concubine who has not given birth to children for the emperor, or an unfavored palace girl, although the name is full of poetry and beauty, but in fact "Chaotiannu" is the woman who is martyred for him after the emperor's death.
Although many people think that this system is very cruel, according to records, as early as the primitive social period, there were martyrdom systems, because archaeologists found that three corpses were found in the tombs of primitive people, one of which was a normal death, and the other two were martyrs.
In the pre-Qin period, every nobleman's tomb was buried with people, and at the time of the archaeological Tomb of King Yin, more than 200 tombs were found, and more than eight people were buried in each pit. Calculated, the number of people buried by King Yin Xu was more than 2,000.
Although the "Chaotian women" were miserable, during the Ming Dynasty, a welfare system was also specially established for them, so that their families could receive some compensation, such as obtaining hereditary official positions.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, both the Jianwen Emperor and the Yongle Emperor paid pensions to the female households of Chaotian, and the family members with official positions were awarded the hereditary official positions of Jinyi Wei Hundred Households and Thousand Households, and those who did not have official positions would be promoted, and gradually became Jinyi Wei Hundred Households and Thousand Households, and these official positions could be hereditary.
It can be said that this kind of welfare has benefited the descendants of the family, and some people have been working tirelessly after becoming officials, and eventually even soared to the sky and became a member of the DPRK, which has since changed the fate of the family.
Although it is said that they will be selected as "heavenly women", their status will be improved, and they will get a "beautiful name" after their deaths, but these are all bought by women at the cost of their lives, so human nature is often so dark.
Later, Emperor Mingying's Zhu Qizhen ascended the throne, the system of human martyrdom disappeared from the Ming dynasty royal family, and the chaotian daughter also withdrew from the stage of history, but the human martyrdom system was preserved in the folk and continued until the Qing Dynasty.
During the Qing Dynasty, the emperor who abolished the human martyrdom system at the legal level was Kangxi, but the folk martyrdom customs were still very serious, and the imperial court could only adopt a tacit attitude, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, and the human martyrdom system completely disappeared.
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