"yin marriage" is the dregs in Chinese traditional culture, and can be traced back to Zhou Chao , 3,000 years ago.
"The Book of Zhou·Diguan" records: "The person who moves to the funeral and marrys the dead."
In other words, since the Zhou Dynasty, "yin marriage" has become popular among the people, so that rulers have to pass laws to restrain them.
To this day, "yin marriage" has become a taboo that everyone is afraid of, and the country is also vigorously cracking down on this feudal dregs. There are clear provisions in the relevant provisions.
"For the sale of dead bodies, insults, intentional destruction of corpses, bones, and ashes. Those who steal, insult, intentional destruction of corpses, bones, and ashes shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than three years, detention or control."
In other words, whether through the consent of the parties and their families, the transaction of corpses is prohibited from being traded with "yin marriage".
But even so, "yin marriage" is still very popular in some remote areas and is constantly banned.
Between 2012 and 2019 alone, there were 133 lawsuits against the sale of bodies, of which 78 involved criminal cases.
cases mostly occur in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and Shandong.
This is still reported. In fact, most people will choose to solve this problem privately due to taboos.
is also because of the low cost of crime that "yin marriage" is still rampant in the country. This even gave birth to a whole black industrial chain.
Hospital bidding, digging graves and stealing corpses, murdering and selling corpses...
It is hard to imagine how crazy things a person will do for money.
Today, let’s talk about the black industrial chain behind “yin marriage”.
Why is "yin marriage" popular in many provinces? In the final analysis, it is because of superstition.
The birth of "yin marriage" is attached to the "underworld".
The ancients believed that after death, people would go to another world to live.
This world is a replica of the "world" and a replica. You need to marry and have children before your life, and you also need to go after your death.
If you have not had time to get married before you die before you die, your relatives will choose to give him one.
There is a folk saying that if the child has not yet started a family after his death, it is a "lonely grave".
"Lonely Tomb" will bring bad luck to the entire family, match "yin marriage", and also say that it will eliminate bad luck to the family.
In addition, the child's death is a painful blow to his parents, so they are more willing to believe in a world after death.
matches the child with a "yin marriage" so that he will no longer be lonely in the "underworld", which can be regarded as a matter of his parents.
Of course, not all men are matched with "yin marriage", and ladies often have the need to match "yin marriage".
Because there are folk customs, unmarried girls cannot enter their own ancestral graves when they die.
Therefore, parents will choose to give their daughter a "yin marriage" so that their daughter can be buried in the man's ancestral grave and will not become a "lonely grave".
In addition to unmarried men and women, sometimes married men and women can also be matched with "yin marriage" after their death.
For example, if the wife dies, the family will compensate the girl's body to the "Lao Wang" who died in the next village.
In this way, the girl’s family can receive another bride gift and make double money.
For example, Shandong girl Fang Yangyang , she was abused to death by her husband in 2019.
Before the body was cremated, the family members prepared her a "yin marriage" in advance.
After getting a few thousand yuan, the other party took Fang Yangyang's ashes away in the crematorium and buried them with his son.
This is the death of the wife. If the husband dies and the wife wants to remarry, she can also give her a "yin marriage".
The wife will buy the girl's body from the "ghost matchmaker" and bury it next to her husband, which means.
"I'm going to remarry, and I specially found you a wife. Don't come to me in the future!"
From the above reasons for "yin marriage", we can see that all of them are feudal superstitions and none of them are reliable.
In the eyes of these people, there is no concept of "the dead are the greatest, and the dead are respected".
The deceased is often just a tool for making money. If you turn your left hand and your right hand, you can make a lot of profits.
Faced with huge temptations of interests, many people began to take risks and do many crazy things.
has undergone 3,000 years of evolution, and "yin marriage" has developed a very mature industrial chain.
The industrial chain of "yin marriage" is divided into two, one is more common and the other is relatively rare.
Generally, customers who are matched with "yin marriage" will first find the local "ghost matchmaker", and then the "ghost matchmaker" will match the deceased's family.
As long as the family members acquiesced and the customer pays the money, the business will be completed.
"Ghost Matchmaker", as the name suggests, is a person who matches ghosts. It has appeared since , the Song Dynasty period.
They hide their identities in various ways and secretly investigate the whereabouts of the bodies. If they are suitable, they will match the two sides.
For example, Aunt Yang from Shandong is one of the "ghost matchmakers".
She is a passionate person and is a local matchmaker. She often matches with living people. Sometimes when she encounters a "smudge marriage", she will help find a seller.
Aunt Yang said that this is not something that is difficult to talk about, but "accumulating good deeds"
In Aunt Yang's hands, there is a notebook that records various connections.
includes the contact number of the person in charge of morgues and funeral homes in many hospitals.
In addition, the burial operators of gravemen, funeral bands, mourning sheds and other facilities, funeral shop owners, morgue administrators, etc. are all her eyes.
Once these people find a suitable buyer, they will notify Aunt Yang, and Aunt Yang will help find the seller.
In her words, it is "mutual cooperation, mutual benefit and win-win results."
Of course, there are also people who "get the moon first when they are close to the water". Aunt Song, who works near the hospital, is also a "ghost matchmaker".
She runs an housekeeping company , recruits nannies and nurses, and earns tens of thousands of yuan every month.
In addition to being a boss, Aunt Song also works as a part-time "gold medal female corpse agent" and often introduces people to the "fresh" female corpse in the morgue.
She often goes to and from the hospital and has many acquaintances in the hospital.
Therefore, if a young woman who has just passed away is sent to the morgue, she can immediately grasp the basic information about the source of the female corpse.
After the woman's family agreed, Aunt Song began to operate secretly to find a buyer for the female corpse.
is usually posted in your own housekeeping group or in medical advertisements embedded in your circle of friends, and is also sent to "ghost matchmakers" in other villages.
Once the buyer is found, Aunt Song can also receive a reward of 2,000 yuan.
After five years of experience, Aunt Song even found a lot of rules.
For example, on rainy days, there are the most frequent news about female corpses, because there are many accidents and are prone to car accidents, and many of them died due to ineffective rescue.
In addition, Aunt Song has been in contact with local corpses for many years, but she is more looking forward to foreign buyers.
Because she can only earn some introduction fee locally. If she is from other places, she can earn the difference from it and make more money.
From this we can see that all "accumulating good deeds" are excuses, and they are nothing more than thinking about the little "money" in their pockets.
Of course, this is a "ghost matchmaker" who does "regular" business. In order to match "yin marriage", there are many people who steal corpses and kill people.
This is the second industrial chain, where prisoners steal and kill, and then directly find buyers and sell the corpse.
In September 2017, Shandong villager Sun Mingxi discovered that his mother, who had been buried for 7 months, had lost her body.
In fact, as early as the day Sun Mingxi's mother was buried, she was stolen by Liu Changlin from the next county.
Liu Changlin runs a funeral company, taking over funeral businesses in three or four nearby counties. In his spare time, he is also responsible for "yin marriage".
is engaged in the funeral industry, and it is very easy for Liu Changlin to find a suitable source of corpse.
After receiving the customer's request, she will look for a suitable tomb, and then dig out the tomb while the moon is dark and the wind is high, and the body is stolen.
is then sold to the buyer to make a high profit.
This is very common in some rural areas, and it is even a tacit secret that everyone knows.
Therefore, once a young girl dies at home, the family will pay special attention, fearing that the girl's body will be stolen.
There are also many ways to prevent theft, such as pulling anti-theft network, setting up monitoring, making cement coffins, etc.
As long as the girl's body can be preserved, the family members will try various methods, which indirectly shows how rampant theft of corpses is among the people.
In addition to stealing, there are also bold people who even take the risk of killing people in order to match the "yin marriage".
In 2011, a three-person gang was strolling on the street. They were planning to steal motorcycles. During the process of
, one person suggested that he could just kill someone and sell the corpse, so that he could make more money.
made up his mind, and the three of them drove on the street to find the right target, and finally found a pregnant woman taking a taxi alone.
They tricked the pregnant woman into the car, then locked the car door, strangled the pregnant woman to death, and sold her body to the next county, making a profit of 22,000 yuan. People like
are more inclined to attack girls with mental problems.
Even if the girl disappears, it will not arouse suspicion from the family. She only thinks it is a mental attack and is lost.
Many innocent girls gave their lives in a confused manner and were buried beside an irrelevant person.
People who kill and sell corpses are really crazy and can't be blamed for their deaths.
Of course, such people will eventually be severely punished by law, so there are many people who suffer from life or even death penalty.
Many people may be curious, why do some people choose to take risks in industries with such high risks?
, in the final analysis, is just a word of money.
Marx once quoted this passage in " Capital ".
"When the profit reaches 10%, they will be ready to move."
"When the profit reaches 50%, they will take risks."
"When the profit reaches 100%, they dare to trample on all laws in the world."
"When the profit reaches 300%, they dare to take the risk of hanging ."
300% profit is still the same, not to mention stealing corpses, it is a transaction without profit.
Central Plains and East China are areas with high incidence of "yin marriage".
The feudal atmosphere in this area is relatively strong, and it is more boyish than girls, which leads to more men and fewer girls in the local area, and many "bachelors" were born.
plus many coal mines in the area, mine accidents occur every year, and the proportion of male death is much higher than that of females.
Therefore, the local "yin marriage" market is in short supply.
Often a girl is sent to the hospital, and a large group of "ghost matchmakers" immediately gathered to inquire, hoping to win the first prize.
is often set, and the girl here has not passed away yet. This phenomenon is extremely ridiculous.
As the saying goes, "Scarcity is precious." It is precisely because of the scarcity that the price of corpses has been rising all the way.
A "yin marriage" worker who has been in the industry for 30 years said.
"In the 1990s, the price was still 5,000 yuan. After entering 2000, the price continued to rise."
"In 2000, the price rose to 50,000 yuan, in 2010, the price rose to 100,000 yuan, and by 2016, the price had risen to 150,000 yuan."
Even if the buyer can afford the price, he may not be able to wait for the source of goods.
and the price of the corpse has many influencing factors.
such as age, "freshness", completeness, appearance, family background, etc.
often has a more complete body, the higher the price for sale, such as death, natural death, etc.
If it is a car accident or accidental death, and the body is incomplete, the price will be greatly reduced.
In addition, buyers do not have to buy "fresh" bodies. Sometimes they cannot find the source of goods and will also settle for the second best.
For example, a girl died at the age of 25, and 10 years after her death, she is 25 years old. Her age will not increase over time.
I wonder if you will feel sick after reading these?
In the eyes of these people, it seems that what they are selling is not corpses, but newly slaughtered pork.
Buying and selling the dead body, don’t you know that there is a more conscientious job in this world than this? It really makes people feel scared.
Sometimes, some people can really do anything for money.
So the question is, why has such a bad industry not been banned yet?
is very simple because there is a market, demand, and it can make money.
So, even if buying and selling corpses is illegal, there are still people who are willing to take risks for this.
If you want to change this situation, there is only one way to improve the level of mass education.
let the public realize that matching "yin marriage" is a very ignorant and bad feudal act.
As my country's education level continues to improve, the phenomenon of "yin marriage" has decreased year by year and has begun to disappear from the public's vision.
can be seen that most of the buyers who match "yin marriage" are rural people, and they are middle-aged and elderly people who have not received much education.
Because of their low education level, they believe in "yin marriage" and "the world of the world".
As time goes by, when these people die, modern young people enter middle age and old age.
will be less and less people with "yin marriage". Without a market, no one will take risks any more.
In the future, the phenomenon of "yin marriage" may completely withdraw from the stage of history.
