The queen was stripped of her clothes and held down, and was humiliated by at least nineteen soldiers, and there were painters watching the painting next to her, called "After Tasting Pictures"...
This is the Jin Kingdom in the Northern and Southern Song Dynasty, although it was once powerful, but it ended up miserable.
How did this dynasty get to this point?
The content of this article is based on reliable sources, and it is repeated at the end of the article, and some of the content is apocryphal.
01. Jingkang's shame
The main reason why Jin Guo can have this end is because of the shame of Jingkang, if Jin Guo was not so brutal back then, maybe there would not be such an ending.
In December of the first year of Jingkang, the Jin army invaded Bianjing, and they began to burn, kill, and loot, doing all kinds of evil.
The Jin army first removed all the books from the palace, and then looted a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, treasures and treasures treasured by the nobles of the palace from the royal family, as well as 600 palace maids.
During the capture of Bianjing, the Jin army looted and burned everywhere, and raped and abused the common people and women. In addition to gold and silver, they plundered a large number of officials and civilians, robbing women and killing men when they saw them.
What's even more terrifying is that Jin Jun actually deliberately asked for "600 girls", which is simply inferior to beasts.
At that time, Wanyan Zong, the second prince of the Jin Dynasty, looked at Zhao Fujin, the daughter of Huizong, and forcibly asked Huizong to hand over Zhao Fujin to himself.
Huizong refused because Fujin was already married, but Wanyan Zongwang didn't listen at all, saying that I was ordered to distribute these slaves, what can you do to resist the order here?
Huizong could only helplessly watch Zhao Fujin being taken away by Wanyan Zongwang.
In addition to her, Jin Dynasty Emperor Jin Taizong also gave the princess Xu Shengying, palace concubines Yang Tiao'er, Chen Wenwan and others to Wanyan Zongwang as concubines.
Later, it was rumored that Princess Zhao Fujin was finally humiliated to the point of anal fissure and died.
and Concubine Zhu Shen of Qinzong was insulted and teased by Jin Jun on the way to be escorted. Many other women who had been taken captive were brutally killed.
At the beginning, the total number of captured Song people reached more than 14,000, and they were divided into seven groups to escort north, of which the first batch included more than 2,200 men and more than 3,400 women.
A month later, when the first batch arrived in Yanjing, there were just over 1,900 women left, and more than half of them died on the way.
Of the more than 1,900 women who arrived in Yanjing alive, some were distributed to Jin officials, of whom thousands became official prostitutes, and 300 were imprisoned in government-run brothels, where they were forced to "expose their bodies and wear sheep's furs" and live a life that could be humiliated at any time.
Huizong's empress Zheng and Qinzong's empress Zhu were also treated in the same way, and Empress Zhu finally hanged herself in humiliation.
Other women were rewarded to the soldiers of the Jin army who had conquered the Song Dynasty, some were sold into prostitution, and some were sold to Goryeo and Mongolia as slaves for ten men for one horse.
According to records, among these captive Song noblewomen, "ten people and nine prostitutes, both lost their names and their lives."
It is precisely because of the history of such humiliation that the people of the Song Dynasty have always regarded the people of the Jin Kingdom as enemies, and the ancient people paid attention to a "soldier can be killed but not humiliated", if you insult me like this, then I will definitely take revenge.
02. The Kingdom of Jin perished, and the emperor cut it in half
The Jin Dynasty relied on its strong military strength to sweep through the northern part of the Central Plains and dominate for a while, and everyone had to listen to the words of the Jin people.
But later, there was a big mess within the Jin Dynasty, which made a door wide open, and the two forces of the Mongols and the Southern Song Dynasty dealt with the Jin Dynasty together, and the Jin Dynasty had a hard time.
At that time, the Mongol army was pressing, and the army of the Jin Dynasty was losing and retreating, and it was impossible to resist at all.
Jin Aizong, the emperor of the Jin Dynasty, saw that the general trend was gone, and anxiously went to ask the Southern Song Dynasty for help, hoping that the Southern Song Dynasty could join forces with the Jin Dynasty to deal with the attack of the Mongol iron cavalry.
However, the shame of Jingkang has become a shadow in the hearts of every Han people, so when the Jin Dynasty asked for help, the Southern Song people simply ignored it and immediately refused.
The Southern Song Dynasty not only rejected the Jin Dynasty's request for help, but saw this perfect opportunity to eliminate the Jin Dynasty, and actually hooked up with the invading Mongols to form an alliance.
With the encirclement and suppression of the two powerful military forces of the Mongol Army and the Southern Song Army, the Jin Dynasty was even worse and fell into an extremely dangerous situation.
Later, the Mongol army and the Southern Song army have been killing Bianliang City, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, and finally captured Bianliang, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, after a bloody battle.
At that time, in order to avoid the pursuit of the Mongol army, Jin Aizong fled to the Caizhou area.
Seeing that the general trend was gone, Jin Aizong was completely desperate and simply chose to commit suicide. Before his death, he also ordered his subordinates to burn his body to avoid being insulted and humiliated by the Mongols and the Southern Song people.
However, Jin Aizong's wish was not realized at all.
His body was soon found by the pursuers, but it was snatched by the Mongol army and the Southern Song army, who used a sharp blade to split the body in two and take away part of it separately.
03. "After Tasting"
The fate of other members of the royal family of the Jin Dynasty was even more miserable.
For example, the empress of the Jin Dynasty was stripped naked, tied hands and feet, and subjected to indecent and insulting treatment. There is also a painter on the side who painted the scene of the queen's insult and painted a "After Tasting", which is shocking.
In general, the humiliation and torture suffered by the Jin Dynasty when it fell was far more cruel than the "Jingkang Shame" inflicted on the Southern Song Dynasty when the Jin army captured Bianjing more than a hundred years ago.
None of the royal men of the Jin Dynasty were spared, and all of them were slaughtered. And the concubines and palace maids were all reduced to slaves and maids, and they were subjected to all kinds of insults and mercy.
This is undoubtedly a kind of punishment and retribution for the crimes of the Jin Dynasty.
How the Jin army poisoned the Song Dynasty back then, the Jin Dynasty will also suffer like this today.
Whether it was the Jin Dynasty army's humiliation of the Southern Song Dynasty royal family and civilians, or the Southern Song Dynasty army's retaliatory insult to the Jin Dynasty royal family, it was a very barbaric and inhumane act.
In times of war, hatred is amplified and people lose their sense of reason and empathy and take heinous acts of revenge.
However, no matter how deep the hatred is, the endless sexual insults and abuses are unforgivable.
Justice is not based on cruelty, and hatred must not excuse a new round of atrocities. We should seek a nobler and more civilized way to resolve conflicts.
Information sources:
[1] "Jingkang Barnyard Historical Notes"
[2] "Southern Expedition Collection"
[3] "Kaifeng Mansion"
[4] "Moaning Words"
[5] "Qinggong Translation"
[6] "Song Prisoners"