Pursuing immortality and becoming an immortal has happened to many kings. The "theory of ghosts and gods" has been talked about in the past and present. However, in the past, people were more awe of the "ghosts and gods", and even many generations of kings recruited some Taoist priests and to study "eternal life" and " Immortal Pills and Magic Medicine".
At that time, the king was considered the son of the gods and was sent by heaven to manage the world, so he had supreme rights. Even when he died, he had to have a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, and even beauties in the harem were buried with him.
Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses
Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses are probably the most grand funeral team discovered so far. When historians first discovered the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses, there were many rumors. Some people say that Qin Shihuang is violent and unjust. In order to show his supremacy, he let his troops be buried with him.
In fact, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin were just carved by imitating thousands of troops and horses. The system of burying the deadly burial system that was completely burying with living people was actually started by Shang Dynasty . Because people at that time believed that people continued to survive in the form of souls after death, how could a generation of emperors, as the "Son of Heaven", exist alone in the form of souls?
and many generations of kings later. Although the dynasties changed, the culture of burial was not disappeared quickly. The Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin were substitutes after the Warring States Period was advocated by various vassal states to abolish the abolition of "burial with people" by various vassal states.
Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses are mostly made of clay. Under the exquisite carving and coloring of the craftsmen, one by one, Terracotta Warriors and Horses becomes unique, as if they are real people. Each Terracotta Warrior has a different expression, which is incomparable to the dolls made and processed by machines.
Every inch of the statue seemed to come alive under the hands of the craftsmen. Different clothing, different weapons, and different types of troops have to sigh at the craftsmanship and wisdom of the ancients.
So the question is, why did Qin Shihuang have to let a group of " clay dolls" die with him in the tomb? is probably because of Qin Shihuang's ambitions. After all, the system of burying a group of people for was abandoned during the period. No matter how you do, you still have to respect your ancestors. Although judging by Qin Shihuang's violence and pressure, it is not impossible to order the army to bury him with him, but they also have sons and they also want their descendants to rule the world. If your army is really buried with you, wouldn’t it be a joke to fight the world with hard work?
In his later years, Qin Shihuang believed in "Eternal Life" and "The Road to Becoming an Immortal". Although he knew that he would die, for people at that time, death was just a different place to live, and the royal relatives and nobles attached great importance to their own affairs. What kind of treatment should be done before death? Otherwise, it would not be too bad after death, so a large number of Terracotta Warriors and Horses were buried with them.
is such a large number and cannot be made for a while. Indeed, such a huge number needs to be prepared a long time in advance. It can be said that it is very active to build a tomb for yourself at that time. is like Qin Shihuang. After ascending the throne, he began to prepare for his place to go after his death. It was built for 39 years. Less than two years after was suspended, Qin Shihuang died and moved in. The suspension of construction was not completed. After Qin Shihuang's death, his tomb was built one after another for a year.
Living people are buried alive
Although Qin Shihuang had Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses buried with him, this does not mean that no living people were asked to be buried alive. Qin Ershi As an emperor who was even more cruel than Qin Shihuang, when Qin Shihuang Mausoleum was completed, all the craftsmen who built the tomb were buried alive, and all the concubines who were not found in Qin Shihuang's harem were killed to Qin Shihuang for burial. So how many people were buried with their bodies?
Since Qin Shihuang ascended the throne, he has been wondering how to build his tomb after his death. The construction of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum was proposed by his Prime Minister Li Si .After Li Si proposed this plan, his boss was very satisfied. He waved his hand and began to catch the strong men and build Huangling. It took Huangling a few years to build forty years, and during this period, he never stopped catching strong men and replenishing workers to do hard work.
At first, everyone thought this was a good job. They had repaired the tomb for the Lord of the World. How shameless it would be if they were told in the future! But when they stepped into this circle, they were firmly trapped. They worked hard and built every day, and there was no complete rest time, so the guards stared at them and couldn't be lazy. is like this. In the past 30 years, countless people have grown old, and accidents and diseases have not made them feel more relaxed.
people gradually discovered that those who went to repair the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang have never come back, which has caused no one to register on their own initiative. However, people in the tomb die almost every day due to overwork. The prisoners and exiled people can not send a large number of them every day. If the work of the tomb is delayed, everyone will be beheaded! The soldiers and generals under
began to requisition a large number of labor, and many suitable young and middle-aged people in their families were forcibly taken away to repair the tombs. This behavior was the most serious in Qin Shihuang's later years. caused the people to have no strong men at home, and the dealer could only rely on elderly women to farm. However, the serious taxes made these families so suppressed that they could not stand up, and gradually formed a vicious cycle.
The soldiers of the supervisor were still happy when they were sent here. They were able to get their wages as usual by supervising the supervisor every day. The pruning speed was too slow, so how could they be scolded? It doesn’t matter, just try to vent your anger at these strong men and keep a close eye on them. , but they were so majestic that they probably didn’t expect that they were chosen to be buried with them!
Before the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was repaired, the Great Wall was about to be built again. Both sides needed a lot of manpower and material resources, which made the people panic. The strong men were exiled to the army and barely escaped, while those men who had no power and power to work at home were taken away one after another.
The young man who was taken away was either sent to , Lishan to build a tomb, or sent to the border to build the Great Wall, and there was no good result on either side.
The group of people sent to build the tomb have been lingering year after year, until their hair turns white and people die, they are thrown out. Then a new person was filled in, and year after year, he finally endured Qin Shihuang to death. I thought that if the remaining hundreds of thousands of people died, Qin Shihuang would have hope of life, but it just happened that things would not go as they wished.
The one who is on the list is not the young master Fusu that everyone has been looking forward to for a long time, but the gloomy boy Hu Hai who is ignorant. Hu Hai's cruelty and tyranny were even worse than Qin Shihuang. So let's continue to stay in the tomb and repair the remaining areas that have not been repaired.
But there are not many places left in itself. These people watched the mausoleum be repaired day by day, as if the date of going home was much closer. But the facts proved that everyone was thinking too much, and from the moment they entered Huangling, they were destined to be unable to go back.
Finally, the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum was completed with everyone's efforts. The people who were waiting to go home all had relieved smiles on their faces, and even the little supervisors breathed a sigh of relief. , but before they were happy for a long time, they noticed something was wrong. There was a loud noise from the exit, and everyone suddenly realized something and rushed out one after another. But it's all too late.
Qin II ordered all craftsmen to be buried with Qin Shihuang. In this way, hundreds of thousands of people were locked in the tombs, and there was no chance to see the light of day again.
Not long after, Qin Ershi ordered the concubines who had no descendants in the harem to be buried with him and be sentenced to death one by one. Some people were unwilling to do so, so they were caught and forced to be executed, with thousands of people in the front and afterwards. The scale of this burial is quite grand.
At this point, Qin Shihuang's underground palace not only had thousands of beauties in the harem, but also hundreds of thousands of people. The army was a large-scale Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses. In the afterlife, he would start a new journey with his cavalry and his subjects.
burial system
Although the system of burial system such as burial system was abolished during the Warring States Period, this does not affect that many monarchs continue to use burial methods to satisfy their selfish wishes.
Qin Ershi was violent and unjust, and hundreds of thousands of lives were just a group of untouchables to him. Giving them to bury Qin Shihuang was kind and reward. Such behavior was destined to completely disappear in his hands.
The system of using living people to bury their lives in history continued until the Sui and Tang Dynasties improved slightly, from directly giving a good person to bury them, to the time to bury them in the imperial tomb. By , in the Song Dynasty, , some border ethnic groups also had the tradition of living people burying them for a long time.
Although large-scale people and army were not allowed to be buried with each other during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the burial of concubines in the harem almost always existed, but the number was obviously getting smaller and smaller. The real system of burying a living person actually ended during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, and this ended the absurd system of burying a living for thousands of years.
Sometimes, the thinking of the ancients is incomprehensible because we grew up under scientific education, and we have lost our former "respect" towards ghosts and gods. Gold, silver and treasures are not brought by life and death. In our eyes, these cultures of burial burial are really ridiculous. Whether it is burial with people or burying gold, silver and jewelry with them, it seems incomprehensible. But in ancient times, whether royal relatives or civilians, those who are capable will definitely bring something to be buried with them when they die. This may be a kind of respect from relatives to the deceased, and I also hope that the deceased can live a more comfortable life in another world.
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