Zong Tomb: Starting from Huangpizi Tomb

Chapter 134: Sacrifice
  A few people walked around and opened a few coffins, but found that they were all empty.

The fat man couldn't help but curse at this moment: "This little devil is really wicked. He follows the three-guang policy wherever he goes, and he doesn't even leave a jar for us."

At this moment, Bai Jing ignored the fat man's complaints and walked to a gorgeous coffin.

This coffin was extremely gorgeous, and it was comparable to the coffin of Guo Xiandao in the tomb just now. Bai Jing stepped forward and felt it, and then he was sure that the Yin spirit came from here.

Bai Jing immediately said: "Fat man, Lao Hu, come over here."

Hu Bayi and Fatty also hurried over after hearing this. They immediately saw the coffin and found that it was indeed very gorgeous. They thought Bai Jing had found the treasure, so they immediately prepared to light candles and open the coffin.

Seeing this, Bai Jing smiled and said, "There's no need to light the candle. This coffin must have been opened by the Japanese. Let's just open it and see what's left inside."

Hu Bayi thought the same thing. This was definitely not the tomb owner's tomb, so there was no need to light candles.

After all, if the owner of the tomb is not inside, who can he communicate with by lighting a candle?

Simply, the three of them stood on one side and pushed the coffin lid open together.

After opening the coffin lid, Bai Jing glanced at it and found that it was indeed an empty coffin again.

The fat man looked a little ugly at this moment and said: "I should have thought of it a long time ago. How could the little devil leave such good things to us?"

However, Bai Jing shined his flashlight deeper into the coffin, and sure enough, the next moment he saw the bodies of a pair of boys and girls sitting on the edge of the coffin.

These two corpses were similar to the corpses Bai Jing had seen in the tomb of the Empress Dowager Liao before. They looked lifelike, and they must have been filled with mercury.

Immediately, Bai Jing called Hu Bayi and Fatty over.

As a result, it was the first time for the two of them to see such a corpse, and they were both shocked.

The fat man said in disbelief: "This is impossible. How long has it been? How come the body is still intact? These two children can't be fake, right?"

At this moment, Hu Bayi noticed the spots on the corpses of the two boys and girls, and said in a deep voice: "These are mercury spots, which are highly poisonous."

The fat man didn't understand this and immediately asked: "Old Hu, what do you mean, what about mercury spots?"

Hu Bayi explained with a heavy face at this moment: "My grandfather told me when he was still alive that these boys and girls actually had mercury poured from the top of their heads when they were alive, and then the outside of their bodies was poured into them after they died. Coating them with mercury powder is like making them into specimens, so that these corpses will not rot even after tens of thousands of years."

After hearing what Hu Bayi said, Bai Jing took over Hu Bayi's words and added: "My grandfather also told me this. If you want to keep the corpse's lifelike appearance, you can only have living people pour mercury into it, because The blood of the dead cannot flow and be poured in."

The meaning of Bai Jing's words was already very clear. The two boys and girls must have suffered great pain before they died.

After hearing what Bai Jing said, Fatty Wang felt a fire in his chest that wanted to burst out. He felt extremely angry for a moment. After a while, he cursed: "This evil feudal society!"

As soon as he said these words, Fatty felt that the room was so depressing, and he turned around and walked out.

Bai Jing and Fatty didn't speak, but their expressions were equally heavy.

As an archaeologist, Bai Jing has seen too many such things.

From ancient times to the present, and even until the founding of New China decades ago, the custom of burying people alive still existed in some remote areas.

Burying a living person is a cruel and barbaric act. As far as our country is concerned, human sacrifice has existed since the earliest clan era.

In the ancient tombs of the Shang Dynasty discovered so far, it is often found that people were buried as martyrs. This behavior gradually declined after the Qin and Han Dynasties, and they were often replaced by wooden figurines, pottery figurines and the like. Very few people were buried as martyrs. , but traces of human sacrifice are often found.

In subsequent dynasties such as the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was rare to find sacrifices to be buried.

However, the northern nomadic peoples are different from the Central Plains dynasties. Through archaeological discoveries, the trend of human sacrifice among the northern nomadic peoples dynasties revived in the Liao Dynasty. According to historical records, after the death of Yelu Abaoji, the Taizu of the Liao Dynasty, He even forced more than a hundred ministers to be buried in his grave.

Since then, there was a system of burial in Jin, Yuan, and early Ming Dynasties. It was not until the Yingzong period of Ming Dynasty that the burial system was legally ended.

Later, in the Qing Dynasty, human sacrifice revived again.

After the deaths of Nurhaci, Emperor Taizu of the Qing Dynasty, and Huang Taiji, Emperor Taizong of the Qing Dynasty, some people died.

After the death of Shunzhi, the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, more than 30 concubines died for him.

Their coffins followed the coffin of Emperor Shunzhi in the funeral together, and the scene was spectacular. This was clearly recorded in Qing history manuscripts.

Later Emperor Kangxi hated this evil act deeply and ordered the abolition of sacrificial burials. This can be regarded as a complete end to the history of large-scale sacrificial burials.

However, the practice of sacrificial burials did not disappear. On the contrary, it still existed in large numbers. The scholar-bureaucrat class in the Qing government even called the buried women "martyrs" and "chaste women", and repaired books and established memorial arches. In a sense, it was Promote sacrifice and burial.

"Manuscripts of the History of the Qing Dynasty, Benji Twenty-Five" records: "In Geng Wu, the martyred husband and martyr Kong Ling of Qufu, Shandong Province protected his wife Pan, and it was announced to the history museum."

This time, the encouragement of sacrificial burial was only one year after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, so the sacrificial burial system was not actually eradicated until the establishment of the Republic of China.

Although after the Revolution of 1911, burials were strictly prohibited by law.

But in fact, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this has not completely eradicated the burial system. Such things still happen frequently in many remote areas.

Bai Jing knew that this was just slavery or slavery during the feudal dynasty or a way for landlords to oppress the people.

But no matter how many times he saw it, Bai Jing still felt heavy when he saw such behavior.

After Bai Jing and Hu Bayi walked out of the airtight door, Yingzi looked at the fat man leaning against the wall with some worry. He seemed to notice that Bai Jing and Hu Bayi came out, and asked quickly: "Brother Bai, Brother Hu, Fat brother, what’s wrong?”

After hearing this, Bai Jing told Yingzi what happened inside.

Yingzi suddenly became silent.

Bai Jing looked at the fat man who was leaning against the wall and smoking, took out a cigarette from his arms and gave one to Hu Bayi.

Hu Bayi lit up his cigarette, looked at Fatty and asked, "Fatty, what's wrong with you?"

The fat man took a deep drag on the cigarette, and after a while he replied: "It's okay, I just feel a little uncomfortable because of the tightness in my heart."

Bai Jing understood the fat man's feelings and patted the fat man on the shoulder without saying anything.

(End of this chapter)