The startling truth of “the deceased” with the emperor in the ancient tomb
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One of the most cruel burial practices when the Chinese emperor died was burying the emperor’s followers alive, called “burial burial” or “burial”.
This funeral custom in China comes from the concept of funeral is to ensure that when the emperor goes to the afterlife, there are still servants as in life or as cover. Photo: Sohu
According to available evidence, funerals were common in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. In more than a dozen ancient tombs unearthed in An Khu, the relic of the capital of the Shang Dynasty (An), there are more than 5,000 people who bury the burial alone. Photo: Sohu
The Qin Dynasty began to use servants to replace concubines, but that does not mean that the custom of burying concubines stopped at this time. By the Qing Dynasty, when Emperor Thuan Tri died, there were more than 30 people who were buried alone in the death of the concubine. Photo: Sohu
Seeing this scene, Khang Hi ordered to abolish the funeral regime. In ancient China, there were two ways of burial, the first is to bury after death, the second is more cruel, which is to bury the people while they are still alive. Photo: Sohu
The writer of the Thanh Vien Mai dynasty once recorded the most cruel method of burial in which the deceased was still alive, using nails to hammer the wall, letting them die slowly in the tomb. Photo: Sohu
In addition, another extremely barbaric method is to tie the hands and feet of the deceased, put them in a certain position, and then bury them alive. The length of time to die can be terrible, so often the bereaved asks to be dead before being buried. Photo: Sohu
The question is, if there were people who had to be buried alive under the emperor, how long did they end up living in that tomb? Photo: Sohu
According to Sohu, the tomb has already arranged a number of people to “finish” the dead when they are brought into the mausoleum. So it is very rare for the deceased to stay in the tomb waiting to die. Photo: Sohu
There is also an opinion that, if there is a case that the deceased is still alive in the tomb and the number of the deceased is not more than 18, it may be possible to survive for about three days, but that three-day life is no different. hell. Photo: Sohu
If the number of dead people is from 18 to 56 people, there will be no oxygen in the grave, so the maximum life time is probably only one day. In general, the people who were placed here were often slaves. Because the status of a servant at that time was very low. The rulers hardly care about their life and death. Photo: Sohu
Archaeologists once discovered a Shang Dynasty tomb in An Duong, Henan, China with the scene in the tomb can be said to be extremely tragic. In that tomb, the deceased lay at the bottom, then filled with earth as a foundation. After everything is ready, the owner of the tomb will be buried. Photo: Sohu
Some concubines need to be buried with the emperor to be rewarded with white silk or poisoned wine. So when the emperor died, the harem cried bitterly. They wept not for the emperor’s death, but for their own. Photo: Sohu
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