Preface
Everyone also knows that the funeral system in feudal society is very exquisite, and it is even more cumbersome for rich and noble families or royal families.
When the concubines in the royal family are buried, they will block the anus of the concubine, so why did the ancients do this? Is there anything special about this?
Ancient funeral system
The ancients in our country attached great importance to birth and death, so when a person was born, some rituals were held, and the rituals held after death were also very grand.
However, in ancient society, people were also divided into three, six, nine and so on, so different groups of people had different funeral systems.
For very poor people, it is very difficult to bury their families, otherwise there would not be such a situation as selling their bodies to bury their fathers in ancient times.
And people with a little money, although for them, the funeral problem will no longer be a problem, but they are still subject to certain restrictions, and there are some things that cannot be buried with their identity.
As for the dignitaries and nobles, their posthumous affairs can be said to be handled quite grandly, and even the funeral goods are very expensive, so to speak, their funeral goods can support a certain number of ordinary people.
The emperor's funeral was even more numerous, with not only countless gold, silver and jewelry, but also some utensils and some dummies made of materials.
The more luxurious the mausoleum, the greater the possibility of encountering thieves, after all, people die for money, birds die for food, in order to prevent some tomb robbers, the ancients also thought of a lot of ways to prevent tomb robbers from patronizing.
Among them, there may be a large amount of mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang that we are familiar with, because there are relevant personnel who have surveyed the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and the mercury element in it is seriously exceeded, and the mercury element is the mercury we are familiar with.
There are also some mausoleums with quicksand inside, which cannot be seen if the tomb is not opened, and if the door is opened, the quicksand will flow out and bury the tomb robbers.
However, this is only the tip of the iceberg, and there are some mausoleums that are easy to open from the outside, but once you enter, you can never get out, and there are countless mechanisms.
Sometimes, the emperor was afraid that the craftsmen who built the mausoleum would know where the mausoleum was located and how to open it after the construction was completed, and in order to protect the safety of his mausoleum, the final outcome of these craftsmen would generally not be much better.
The ancients' quest for immortality
We modern people know that the life span of human beings is only more than 100 years old, but this is also under the premise of the development of science and technology.
But for the ancients, their pursuit of immortality was always very fanatical, especially the emperor, after all, the power in their hands was very large, and they wanted to rule the country for thousands of years.
So when they were alive, they began to pursue the art of immortality, and some alchemists in ancient times were specially for the emperor's alchemy, but the things they threw into the alchemy furnace were more complicated.
There are many things that are very toxic in the eyes of our modern people, but ancient science and technology are limited after all, so they do not have a standard for judgment.
Some emperors felt that such an elixir could be immortal, so they took the elixir, but eating too many poisonous elixirs was always bad, so many emperors died at a young age, and it was inseparable from the love of taking pills.
Although people in ancient times were afraid of death, people also believed that there was a world after death, and that the system of that world was somewhat similar to that of the human world, and it could be connected in a certain way.
Therefore, ancient people felt that the things that a person was buried with after death could also be brought to another world to continue to use, which is why the ancients had funeral goods after death, as long as they had capital.
In addition, the ancients also attached great importance to their own bodies, and paid attention to the hair and skin of the body during their lifetime, and when they passed away, they would also maintain the integrity of their bodies.
They felt that if they kept their bodies intact, their souls would not dissipate, and perhaps one day, their souls would return, which is why the ancient concubines would plug their anuses when they were buried.
Miserable concubine
If we watch TV series now, there are many concubines whose lives are very luxurious, and as long as they are favored by the emperor, they can have a lot of things.
If the emperor dies, then these concubines will become concubines and continue to live in the palace until they die, and if you look at it this way, the life of those concubines is still quite good.
However, in some dynasties in ancient times, if the emperor died, if the concubine did not give birth to a child, they would be dragged to the burial, before the funeral, they needed to empty their intestines a few days in advance, and at the same time, they would drink some Chinese herbs.
After the death of the concubine, people will quickly plug the concubine's nine orifices, so that the filth in the body will not be discharged, and the things that plug the nine orifices are called the nine orifices.
The nine-hole plug is generally made of jade, as for why it is this material, this is also very particular, and there is a certain experience in the embalming of corpses in ancient times.
Although mercury is poisonous, it has a property, that is, antiseptic, so people will pour mercury into the body to achieve the effect of embalming.
However, the mercury poured into it is afraid of losing from the holes of the body, so people use jade to say that all the holes are sealed, jade actually has characteristics, and when mercury encounters jade, it will freeze instantly, which is one of the reasons why the jade nine-hole plug is used by dignitaries.
A large part of the reason for using the Nine Trick Plug for those concubines is because these concubines are members of the royal family, and people in the royal family care about face very much.
If these concubines have some abnormal changes in their bodies when they are dead, it will definitely be a shame-damaging thing for the people in the royal family, and the royal family will not let such a thing happen.
Another point is that the ancients felt that jade can nourish the soul, whether it is a dead person or a living person, with jade on the body, it is a great benefit, but jade is also very precious, and ordinary people really can't afford to wear it, let alone use it for burial.
Therefore, many people who are not worth enough will use other materials if they use the nine-hole plug: shells or glass, and again, there are also ceramic anal plugs, but the effect must be greatly reduced.