Is it really normal for the Shang royal family to sacrifice to the living and even eat?

As early as 6,000 years ago, China had a tradition of offering sacrifices to the living. Sacrificing the living is a feudal superstition. Rulers and rulers sacrifice the living to pray for the protection of the gods in order to achieve some of their wishes. Sacrifice to the living is to soothe the gods and worship the sky, in fact, it is to satisfy the selfish desires of those in power.

Sacrifice to the Living in Shang Dynasty

The Shang dynasty was brilliant in civilization and made outstanding achievements in the cultural field. Oracle Bone Inscriptions and bronze inscriptions unearthed in Shang Dynasty recorded the glory of Shang Dynasty, and its bronze culture was world-renowned. However, judging from the unearthed sites of Shang Dynasty, there was a large-scale sacrifice of the living in Shang Dynasty, and kings of all dynasties held sacrifices almost every day. Small living sacrifices will sacrifice more than 100 people, and large living sacrifices refer to more than100 people.

This is mainly related to the worship of ghosts and gods in Shang Dynasty. Shang people believed in God and had filial piety. However, their way of expressing piety is to hold a grand sacrifice. Sacrifice is not only the sun, moon and stars in the sky, but also the dead nobles in the palace. In the concept of businessmen, in order to express the sincerity of sacrifice, the living is the highest level of sacrifice. Businessmen firmly believe that people will go to another world after death. Nobles who enjoyed honor and worship during their lifetime can't live without the service of servants after death. So they sent slaves to another world to comfort the dead souls.

People in Shang Dynasty offered sacrifices to people of all ages, even children born in Lian Gang. However, they will not harm their own residents at will, and the object of their sacrifice is often foreigners or slaves with low status. It can be seen that businessmen exclude dissidents and seek unity. They sacrificed slaves, and to some extent shocked hostile countries. But the cruelty of sacrifice is outrageous.

In any case, living sacrifice is an extremely feudal and cruel and bloody means. The Shang Dynasty has a splendid civilization of more than 500 years, which has made great contributions to the history of China. But what is shocking is that such a splendid civilization is built on the bones of martyrs, which is regrettable.

The Shang royal family ate people.

But I think the so-called dynasty cannibals should really exist, but I think these so-called cannibals only eat human flesh occasionally, but I don't think they should eat human flesh, or they won't have enough to eat if they are given these sacrificial things. So the cannibals of the dynasty may really exist, but I think if they want to eat people, they can only go to ordinary people to eat, or the races kill each other, or how they eat inside, but I think the living people sacrificed in the Shang Dynasty are not for them to eat.

As for cannibalism, the origin is that boiled human bones are found in ancient tombs. This statement has not been confirmed, just a guess. But now there are still some primitive aborigines in the world who keep this habit. For example, after the death of a loved one, he will share it to keep his soul; The brave enemy was also eaten, and it is said that he can inherit his courage.

Therefore, it is not completely certain whether cannibalism still exists in Shang Dynasty.

Why is this dynasty so horrible?

Is it extremely cruel to let priests choose to kill people, behead them, burn them to death, splash water, gut them and take out their internal organs? However, the rulers at that time were willing to do so, not knowing what their psychological activities were like at that time. After all, it's cruel. If they are slaves, the possibility of being killed is very high. Moreover, even virgins, teenagers and children are not spared. Why are you doing this?

Under the ruins of Yin Ruins, there are more than 1 10 human bones buried in every square kilometer, and the names of their sacrifices are as many as 2 1 1. It can be seen that this thing was very common at that time, and all major ceremonies such as offering sacrifices to gods, going out to war, building, asking for divination, burial and so on were all about killing people. This may be a custom of Shang Dynasty, but it is really terrible. In ancient times, there was martyrdom, and the folk saying was: Go with the monarch. This is just a manifestation of conscious martyrdom. There are many such records in the Biography of Ancient Martyrs.

In ancient times, the appearance of martyrdom had historical limitations. However, people in Ming and Qing dynasties advocated it in other forms. In the Biography of Martyrs, it is also true that some concubines were asked to be buried consciously after the death of the ancient monarch. Mrs Gou Jian is an example. But in ancient society, the status of women was still very low, so there were things buried with them.