Baby Tower
This is a baby tower from the Qing Dynasty, and from a distance, it looks like a small temple dedicated to gods and Buddhas.
However, if you look closer, you will find that there are three big characters written on the tower, "Baby Girl Corpse". As the name suggests, this is where the female treasure shi body is stacked.
At that time, if a child died of illness, and the parents could not bear to be buried, or the family was poor and could not afford to do funerals, someone would ask someone to send the child to the baby tower.
This is the original intention of building the "Baby Tower".
But later, things got out of hand: it was not the child who died in the tower who was thrown into the tower, but a living girl! But where there are some people who give birth to girls and do not want to raise them, they will directly throw them to the "baby tower".
These living little lives, after being abandoned by their parents, can only fend for themselves. According to statistics, almost all of the towers are female babies, and their proportion is as high as 95%.
I don't know if the person who invented the baby tower ever thought that the situation would develop to this point?
The keeper of the infant tower, he burns a fire every three days, and every time he arrives, he can smell the pungent stench.
What is heart-wrenching is that there are often children's cries and cries in the tower. Therefore, within a radius of several miles, no one dares to live in the baby tower.
Those cruel people, in order to prevent the abandoned baby girl from escaping, they also built the baby tower higher and higher.
In the beginning, the small tower was only 0.5 meters high, but by the late Qing Dynasty, some baby towers had been built to 5 meters high. In this case, once the girl is thrown in, she can no longer escape the clutches of the devil.
In this context, an alternative profession was even born: they went door-to-door to ask who had unwanted girls, and if the parents could not bear to start, they would collect some money and help the family send the child to the baby tower.
Why is this? Writing this, I have already begun to shiver. The patriarchal thinking is really too deep-rooted, as if there is no son in the family, it will be looked down upon.
I have an aunt who gave birth to 4 daughters in order to fight for her son. At that time, family planning was still in the past, only the eldest daughter and the second daughter remained, and the third and fourth were given away just after birth. Until about 40 years old, the body did not allow, the aunt reluctantly gave up.
In my mother's time, there were many aunts called "Zhaodi" and "Pandi", and they didn't feel inappropriate at that time. Only now do I understand: the four words of son preference have chilled the hearts of many girls.
Of course, we also clearly feel that the phenomenon of son preference has not been so serious in recent years. Everyone even thinks that the daughter is also very good, intimate little cotton jacket, the economic pressure is not so great.
So some netizens ridiculed: the patriarchal ideology that could not be solved for thousands of years actually let real estate be solved.
Do you think so?