In ancient times, people had a low level of technology and lacked their understanding of nature. Often after encountering natural disasters, they would think that God was furious. At this time, the emperor, who is the emperor of the Nine Five, would first give a " Sinful Edict ", and then lead all civil and military officials to hold a grand sacrifice to pray to the heavens to calm their anger.
In ancient times, the court was like this. When ordinary people encounter difficult things, they will even blame the ghosts and gods. For example, in ancient times, there was always a tradition of "making a living stake", that is, when building bridges and large buildings, livestock would be sacrificed, and sometimes even when livestock were not good, living people would be sacrificed.
So, how terrible was it to fall to the ground in ancient times? At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Chen Lin , one of the "Seven Sons of Jian'an", once described it in his poem: "You alone do not see the Great Wall under the Great Wall, and the dead bones support each other." As the most important military defense project in ancient times, the Great Wall killed many civilians during the construction process, and many of them died because of "life-beating stakes".
The construction of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the records of "boiling piles" can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. It is said that the "life-beating stake" comes from Master Lu Ban. There are many records about Lu Ban in folk legends. One of the legends is "life-beating stake". It is said that there are also records in the "Lu Ban Sutra".
It is said that at that time, a family always encountered various accidents when building a house. Either the built wall suddenly collapsed or the beam suddenly fell off. This family was puzzled and asked Lu Ban, the architect at that time, for help. Lu Ban told the owner of this family that because the house changed the Feng Shui and angered the local gods, the sacrifice could be completed successfully.
So the family followed Lu Ban's advice and used cattle and sheep to hold sacrifices, and finally successfully repaired the house. From then on, it became a routine for people to hold sacrifices when building large buildings. Until today, many families who are more particular about this will set up a table to offer tributes such as cattle, sheep, and animals when building houses to pray for the successful completion of the project.
Sacrifice was very sacred in the eyes of the ancients. The sacrifices were generally three animals or fruits and pastries, but sometimes sacrificing livestock may not solve the problem. At this time, if livestock are not good, living people need to be used to sacrifice, which is the "life-beating stake" in folk legend.
As a modern person, when he first knew the word "studying a stake", he would probably feel cruel. Because the ancients used "boosting the stakes" to be used by boys and girls, this approach is obviously difficult for modern people to accept. However, even if people know that this is a very barbaric thing, until modern times, the phenomenon of "slaughtering" still exists.
About Song Dynasty , when the imperial government was building large-scale projects, it had already formed a tacit understanding with boys and girls to "beat the stakes". For example, during the period of the Song Shenzong period, the imperial court used the method of "beating piles" when building the Yellow River embankment. Moreover, such customs are more popular among the people. When building some more important buildings, people will also adopt the method of "boiling piles" to pray for the smooth completion of the project.
Initially, the ancients held sacrifices before the start of the project, which used sacrifices such as three animals, fruits and pastries, and later evolved into offerings with boys and girls. Although the court explicitly prohibited the use of living people to bury them with burial after the Han Dynasty, and all violators would be punished extremely severely, the court rarely cared about the custom of "beating a living stake". Even today, when technology is relatively developed, the custom of "making life" secretly still exists.
In essence, the "life-beating stake" is similar to the Gan Jiang Moye's sword-making and sacrifice furnace. Both achieve successful results through human sacrifice. There is no doubt that this is a very barbaric behavior. The ancients chose this method because they did not understand science.But in today's advanced technology, this method still exists, which is incredible. For example, the film "Broken Bridge" is adapted from real events, and behind it is a story of "slaughtering a stake".
However, modern times are a civilized society after all, and no one can dare to blatantly use living people to "beat the living stake", which is also strictly prohibited by law. However, according to some related reports, this kind of behavior may still occur in secret. The ending of some missing people is probably to be "beating a life stake", just like the father in "Broken Bridge", and it will not be able to see the light of day again until one day the bridge collapses.
