As a cultural power with a history of over 5,000 years, China not only has many essences in its culture, but also countless dross. In the backward feudal society, there were still many cultural dregs, such as men being superior to women, three wives and four concubines, three-inch golden lotus and ghost marriage.
Dear Marriage is a wedding held at the same time as the funeral is held, so that those who have not married before their death can have a marriage after their death. There is another vulgarity about funerals in ancient times, that is, the funeral of living people " crock pot grave ".
I believe that people today have basically never heard of the earthen jar tomb. Although the earthen jar tomb has been abolished in modern times with the liberation of thought and the progress of the times, it still cannot erase the "sin" it committed in history.
Since ancient times, China has been a country of etiquette that values filial piety. I never expected that in ancient times, there would be a son burying his mother alive. This is the clay pot tomb for the funeral of a living person. When the old mother at home is over 60 years old, her son will dig a grave for her, and the mother will lie in this grave.
Every time my son comes to deliver a meal, he needs to build a brick until the grave is sealed and his mother dies. We really can't imagine that the clay pot tomb actually appeared in ancient times.
Crockpot Grave
It would be fine if the elderly at home died early, but if they had not yet died, then 60 years old is the big hurdle in their lives. Because these elderly people will be sent to the grave by their children.
This grave is not big, just enough to accommodate her body alone. My son comes to deliver meals to his mother every day, maybe he will chat with her, or maybe he will be extremely indifferent to her.
But after the meal is delivered, you must build a brick. As time went by, the bricks were built higher and higher, and finally the tomb was blocked alive, so my mother could only wait for death in the tomb.
This is actually another sense of burying alive. The cruelty of it is that mothers have to look at their children and kill themselves alive. They have no complaints.
Filial piety has always been regarded as a person's most important morality. In ancient history, rulers' appointment of officials have also used filial piety to screen. In our general perception, if a person is filial, we will also think that she is a good person from the bottom of our hearts.
If someone does not treat her parents well, they will not only be morally condemned, but also be subject to legal sanctions in serious cases. But in ancient times, this special funeral of living people still appeared.
What’s even more ridiculous is that clay pot tombs were very popular in ancient times. What practical reasons behind this have led to the emergence of clay pot tombs in ancient times, which have always valued filial piety.
The reason behind the graves of the clay pot
In ancient times, farmland was limited, production capacity was also limited, and various resources were even insufficient. Food has become a scarce existence, and famine among the people is also a frequent visitor.
Once the famine breaks out, a large number of people will die. As the saying goes, there are too many monks and less porridge. The labor required by the entire society is basically concentrated in the younger generation. Young people need to work to develop the social economy and make the country operate normally.
. The elderly can only wait at home to be supported, which leads to insufficient food. There must be a choice among the elderly and young people, so it is obvious that the elderly have been sacrificed.
At that time, ancient people who were experiencing many wars seemed to the view that the elderly did not have any value to society. You cannot make money to support your family, you cannot go to the fields to sow grain, and you cannot lead troops to fight.
So the bad habit of clay pot graves appeared. Once the old man reached 60 years old, his son would bury her in the repaired grave. If the children in the family are very filial and unwilling to bury their old mother alive, they must be prepared to not let their old mother be discovered for the rest of their lives.
Once someone in the village knows whose family has an elderly person over 60 years old, the family will be kicked out of the village and the whole family will eventually starve to death.
In ancient records, the funeral customs of living people such as clay pot tombs were not completely abolished until . At the beginning, scholars were skeptical about clay pot tombs, because clay pot tombs have always existed in folk legends.
Until archaeological staff discovered a mysterious cave in modern times. After research, they found that this cave was like a clay pot tomb, which was specially prepared for ancient people over 60 years old who had no basic survival ability.
The space inside the grave is small, and most of it is on a very hidden mountain. The children at home carried the old man on the rugged mountain road and put him in the cave to let her die.
Crock pot grave is a thorough feudal bad habit. It ignores people's rights as human beings, tramples their dignity arbitrarily, and deprives others of their lives at will.
Time has come to modern times, and there are still a large number of children in society who are unwilling to support their parents. They regard their parents as burdens and want to abandon them.
Fortunately, the majority of kind people in the world are willing to support their parents and children. We, who were once babies, were raised step by step by step by step by father and mother. When they are old, we also need to take good care of them.
