Women are weak, but mothers are strong.
- "The New People's Theory"
There is no selfless and greatest love under heaven than maternal love. "Only the mother is good in the world, and the child with the mother is like a treasure, thrown into the arms of the mother, and happiness cannot be enjoyed." This children's song from childhood speaks to the pure feelings between mothers and children, which is enough to move the world.
Throughout the ages, there have been many stories of motherly kindness and filial piety, and even in some archaeological discoveries, similar things can be seen. As we all know, the current stage of archaeology is mainly to excavate and study the tombs of the ancients to obtain relevant information of the ancients, and to deduce the daily life of the ancients on this basis.
First, an amazing scene in the tombs of the ancients
Since ancient times, China has a tradition of burial in the soil, and burial has always been the first choice for Chinese people. Over the past thousands of years, countless burials have left a large number of tomb groups for future generations, not only leaving countless valuable wealth, but also allowing many people to embark on the life journey of "touching the gold lieutenant", using the most despicable and dirty means to obtain their own rewards. Many people's tombs no longer exist under the Luoyang shovels of tomb robbers, which has brought great losses to Chinese civilization.
In contemporary society, the folk tomb robbery activities have been well controlled, and the tombs of many ancient celebrities have been well protected. Some of the tombs that had to be relocated for economic construction were also properly handled with the help of archaeologists. Archaeology has gradually become a popular discipline, more and more people are engaged in archaeology, and many mysteries in history have been perfectly solved.
But sometimes, there are also mysteries that arise with the opening of the tomb, and it even subverts people's existing experiences and has to re-understand the history of their own.
In Qiqihar, Heilongjiang in the 1990s, a farmer stumbled upon an ancient tomb in a wetland reserve. After receiving the report, the relevant departments organized a group of archaeologists to excavate it.
This ancient tomb is not large, but it is relatively well preserved. This is a husband and wife tomb, and inside the tomb there are two coffins, placed side by side. Except for the coffin, there is nothing of value in the tomb, mostly some daily necessities.
After studying and testing these objects, archaeologists found that this ancient tomb belongs to the late Qing Dynasty, which is only more than a hundred years old.
After the archaeologists emptied the coffins, they found someone to hang the two coffins off the ground, and then opened the lid of the coffin, and a very shocking scene suddenly appeared in front of the archaeologists.
2. The tragedy of the birth of a child in the tomb
Archaeologists found that one of the coffins contained a man and the other contained a woman.
Inside the coffin containing the man, the archaeologists found nothing special, only a pair of dried white bones, wrapped in gorgeous clothes, although it looks a little scary, but for the experienced archaeologists, these are pediatrics.
Inside the coffin containing the woman, archaeologists found something strange. In addition to the woman's own bones, in the lower part of the woman's body, there was a very young corpse.
Archaeologists see this scene, some wonder, why is there such a thing? After consulting the relevant local information, archaeologists found that the woman in the tomb died of the pain of dystocia, and that her child was still in the womb before death.
After obtaining this information, the archaeologists brains filled in the picture of the woman's death. The woman was very painful because of the difficult childbirth, and even fainted in the past, but the midwife who was guarding the woman's side mistakenly thought that the woman was dead, so she arranged for the woman's family to bury the woman in a hurry.
Who knew that this woman was not dead, but just fainted. When she woke up, she found herself in the darkness of her five fingers out of sight, very desperate, but based on her mother's instincts, she gave birth to her own child in the dark, but eventually died because she was buried in the ground and lacked oxygen. The two bones in the coffin bear witness to this.
After the archaeologists made up such a picture, they couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness in their hearts. The tragedy of giving birth to a child in a tomb is not uncommon in ancient times, because the medical technology of that era was backward, and many women lost their lives when giving birth, so some people said that "having a child is a woman's second life".
Third, the high mortality rate of ancient women during pregnancy
Even in modern society, we can often see medical disputes due to maternal deaths on television, the Internet or in the press.
In ancient times, when women gave birth to children, they simply went through the ghost gate, and countless women died when they gave birth, causing one tragedy after another. The main reasons for this tragedy are as follows:
The first is the low level of health care. In ancient times, there was no modern medical technology and equipment, and prenatal examinations were entirely based on the experience of doctors or midwives, and once there was a difficult birth, the mother had to wait for death.
The second reason is that in ancient times, women married earlier, and many women married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. However, the living standards of the ancients were poor, and the speed of people's physical development lagged far behind that of modern times, and the body structure of these women who were new women was very fragile, and they did not meet the standard of childbearing.
But the ancients did not have this knowledge, nor did they have the common sense and habits of contraception, so these young women began to have children shortly after marriage, and the final result was that these women encountered the biggest threshold in life when giving birth to children, and many women did not have good luck to survive, only to struggle to die in pain.
According to relevant data, maternal mortality rates in ancient times were as high as 5 to 15 per cent and infant mortality rates were as high as 30 per cent. In other words, 5 to 15 of the 100 women in ancient times could not live to see their children. And 30 out of 100 children can't grow up. This phenomenon led to a very short average life expectancy of the ancients.
brief summary
Having children is really a very dangerous thing for women. Many women really grow into a complete woman after having children, strong, confident, and loving. Especially Chinese women, after becoming mothers, are more likely to reflect their great side. Whether ancient or modern, there are too many cases in this regard.
References: "Pregnant Mother's School", "Archaeological Curiosity"
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