The existence of cannibal is an unsolved mystery in history, but there have been horrifying cannibalism in Chinese history. Although China is a "land of etiquette" with a civilization of five thousand years, there have also been a savage and bloody "cannibalism" tragedy in history that is now creepy and bloody!
I wonder if anyone has heard of the term "two-legged sheep"? "Two-legged sheep" does not refer to sheep, but to people who are eaten as food. After the demise of the Northern Song Dynasty, the people in the north killed each other due to shortage of food on the way to escape. The meat of women is called "two-legged sheep" and the meat of children is called "harm bone rot".
"Compendium of Materia Medica·Man Yi·Human Meat" records: "In ancient and modern times, the ragtag soldiers eat human flesh, which is called thinking about meat, or two-legged sheep. This is the inhuman nature of the thief, and it is not worth killing." Lu Xun also mentioned the "two-legged sheep" in "Zhunfeng Yue Tan·Clicking the Target": " Huang Chao rebelled and used people as food, but it is wrong to say that he eats people. The food he eats is called 'two-legged sheep'."
"Book of Jin·Biography of Shihu" records that Shihu is deserted and is arrogant and unruly, and often appears in the house of the palace minister at night to lust his wives and concubines. "If the beautiful and beautiful man in the palace, he beheaded and washed his blood, placed it on a plate, and shared it with him. The nuns in the inner world had a beauty and killed him, and cooked him with beef and mutton and ate him, and gave him the right hand and left hand to see him, and wanted to know his taste." The nun, the nun, was nun. After raping the nuns, Shi Hu killed them, put beef and mutton on them and cooked them with the nun's corpse, and rewarded human flesh to the ministers, with the beautiful name "I want to know the taste"
"Old Tang Book " records that in the third year of Zhonghe of Emperor Xizong, when Huang Chao attacked Chenzhou, he used the captured prisoners as food, and hundreds of people were killed in one day. "The thief pounded and ground forts, and made hundreds of huge mortars. They were born and put into mortars and crushed them, and combined with bones and ate them." He was so cruel that he put the person on a pounding fort and crushing the bones and eating them together! In " Nancun Chuogenglu " written by Tao Zongyi , "The whole world is in power, but the army in Huaiyou is fond of cannibalism, and children are the best... or they sit in two tanks and force them to fire. Or they are roasted on an iron rack. Or they are tied up with boiling soup first, but they are brushed with bamboo broom to remove the bitter skin. Or they are put in a bag and put them in a huge pot to cook. Or they are cut off their legs, while women are especially picking up their breasts. They are cruel and poisonous, and they cannot be said." This description that is similar to vernacular Chinese is really cold to read.
Wars can cause "people cannibalize", and the same is true for famine.
1929, Gansu had a severe drought. In the "Memorandum of Famine in Modern Gansu", the missionary Ma Yongqiang recorded: "Residents have gone on hunger strikes or lacking seeds, so they mostly cook babies and eat them to satisfy their hunger. Children in various counties dare not go out."
930 A correspondence stated: "The hungry people stole dead bodies at first, and then they openly stolen them. In the end, they use the legs and arms of babies and women to make bacon, feed their food at home, and use them to go out for dry food. Each person goes to the tax bureau to check their luggage, and people often wrap their legs in it." If the officers and soldiers ask, the hungry people will say, "This is the body of my child. If I don't eat them, they will be eaten by others."
Those who have watched the movie "1942" must still remember the major famine in Henan. Henan Literature and Historical Materials records that there were groups of beggars in Zhengzhou digging and eating dead bodies, and the Mashuidao couple cooked their biological daughter Xiangju .
"Old Things of the Republic of China" (1928-1931) compiled by Zhou Junqi records a horrifying thing: There are three families in the village of Longde County, Gansu Province. The husbands all went out to flee. The wives of the three families beg for survival, but they were still starving to death. So they secretly took other people's children and chopped them up and cooked them to eat. When others discovered them, the bones of more than 30 children were piled up in the kiln. There is a record in "A Centennial Famine" edited by Xi Huifen and Guo Yansen. A woman in Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province fled to famine with her 3-year-old son and lived in a farmhouse at night. The next morning, she found that her son was missing. She searched everywhere and smelled the scent of meat in the kitchen. When she opened the steaming steamer, she actually found that her son was sitting in a cage. She had been steaming for a long time, which was terrible.
However, life is much richer than in the past, and the tragedy of barbaric and bloody "cannibalism" will definitely not happen again.
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