Burying the dead with living people was a cruel and barbaric system in ancient China.
Before the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was somewhat restrained and was often replaced by wooden barrels and pottery figurines.
After the Qin and Han dynasties, few people were buried alive.
However, according to relevant unofficial historical records, the trend of human sacrifice was not completely eliminated until the Ming Dynasty.
Taizu of the Ming Dynasty was the first to set a precedent, and Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty ended the burial system.
Later in the Qing Dynasty, the burial system existed during the Huang Taiji and Shunzhi periods.
It was not until the Kangxi period that the burial system was ended.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, many concubines were buried, but where they were buried is an unsolved mystery.
However, the burial system of the Ming Dynasty was more deceptive than that of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
For the concubines and palace maidens who were sacrificed, the imperial court rewarded them spiritually and materially.
The concubines and concubines who were buried in the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty were all given a "niche" set up in the Xiaoling Hall for future generations to worship their ancestors.
The earliest temptation to be buried can be traced back to King Helu of Wu during the Warring States Period.
Helu had a daughter, and he doted on her so much that she asked for the stars but not the moon.
He doted on her to no end.
One day, a rare white carp was presented to the public.
Helu was overjoyed and ordered it to be cooked into fish soup.
He ate half of it first, and then gave the rest to his daughter.
Unexpectedly, when the daughter saw King Wu treating her like this, she immediately lost her temper and said, "My father gave me half of the remaining fish to eat.
This is an insult to me.
It's really boring to live in this world."
Then she hanged herself in the room. .
King Wu was very sad when he heard the news, so he built a huge mausoleum outside the capital city to bury his daughter.
At that time, King Wu ordered people to dig a pond in the tomb, build an underground palace on a large scale, and use fine stones to carve patterns to serve as his daughter's coffin.
He also placed many gold tripods, jade articles, pearls, agates, and silk and silk in the tomb as his daughter's burial companion. thing.
On the day of the funeral, King Wu invited many dancers to walk on the street, and also asked people to catch several white cranes and put them among them.
The dancers and the white cranes complemented each other on the street, and they danced, attracting many people to stop and watch.
As everyone knows, King Wu's conspiracy has just begun.
After a while, more and more people were watching.
King Wu quietly ordered someone to lead the way in front of the dancers' team, leading the team and people to his daughter's mausoleum.
The people watching the crane dance along the way did not know that they had fallen into the trap.
They danced happily with the crane dance team and followed along the road, unknowingly entering the underground palace of King Wu's daughter.
As soon as the team entered the tomb passage at the end, King Wu suddenly asked someone to activate the mechanism, lowered the stone gate weighing ten thousand kilograms, and buried all the people in the team and the common people in the tomb passage.
No matter how they cried and begged, they were ignored.
Countless living people were suffocated to death in the tomb together with Bai He, and were used as burial objects for his daughter.
Later, when people found out about this, the whole country was filled with hatred
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