I often hear old people talking about the "reception boy" in the ancient tomb, who holds the longevity candle in the tomb and kneels in front of the coffin to receive the immortal and lead the saint.
It is said that all the boys who are picked up are eleven or twelve years old.
Their zodiac signs should be yin year and yin moon.
When they are alive, they have mercury poured into them to make them kneel down and prostrate.
They lower their heads and close their eyes.
They look very peaceful and have a wick in place.
At the navel, long A section of the belly of the "receiving boy" is exposed and connected to the copper pillar behind it.
In the past, the copper pillar and human skin may have been filled with oil, which could flow out drop by drop through the navel, making the candle live for thousands of years.
Not extinguished.
However, with so many ancient tombs unearthed, I have never seen a light on inside, and the boy who was used as an immortal candle has never been found.
It is probably a legend derived from the burial of living people.
Archaeologists in Greece once discovered a well used for ancestor worship in the ruins of Athens.
The bottom of the well was filled with gold coins and the remains of many human bones.
They were all dropped to death by people.
Because in ancient times, The Greeks believed that throwing treasures and living people into wells was an offering to the gods.
There is also a legend about a mummy impaled on wooden stakes, the authenticity of which is difficult to verify.
It is said that there was a tomb robber Lao Ba in the Ming Dynasty.
He had robbed countless ancient tombs in his life.
When he was robbing tombs in Suzhou, he dug up a large tomb.
The dead bodies were chained up with copper chains, and all of them looked as if they were alive, but when touched with a hand, they turned into ashes.
The most cruel thing in human sacrifice is to bury boys and girls in burials.
It is similar to the way of bringing in boys, but it does happen.
This custom was common before the Ming Dynasty, but became less common after Hongwu.
It can be seen that the closer the era is to modern times, the more hopeless the dream of becoming an immortal is considered by the world.
On a construction site in Shanxi, an ancient tomb in which a boy and a girl were buried was discovered.
Experts speculate that this tomb is an ancient tomb from the Song and Yuan Dynasties.
This is a fairly well-preserved ancient tomb, with a semi-circular archway to the south.
Two boys and girls who were buried were serving on both sides of the tomb door, with an iron nail driven into their foreheads.
When you step into the inner door of the tomb, you can see that the floor is made of square bricks and the room is spotless.
There are three corpses lying on the pit in front of the tomb.
One man is in the middle and two women are on both sides.
They are the owner of the tomb and his wives and concubines.
There are exquisitely carved windows and hidden side doors on the left and right side walls.
There is a protruding lamp on the right side of the arch.
The bodies of the sacrificed boys and girls were filled with mercury, making their corpses immortal for thousands of years, but their faces were definitely not lifelike.
In fact, there was almost only a layer of hard skin left, and their facial features were all collapsed and shrunken, and they died miserably.
Naturally, the expression will not be relaxed and peaceful, and it should be ugly
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