What is the custom of "crock grave"? How cruel is it?

"Raising children to prevent old age" has always been a concept passed down in the traditional culture of our country at the age of. At the same time, in this process, the corresponding concept is "filial piety comes first in all the virtues". Parents put up their children with great pains, and they are afraid of being broken in their mouths and falling in their hands. They are very precious. When their parents are old, they do their best to honor their parents and do their best.

Birth, old age, illness and death are the things that people must experience in this life. After one hundred years, I dressed my parents in Dai Xiao and put them in the grave, which has been the case for thousands of years. However, in this process, there have been many "staggering" things. At that time, there was a bad habit of "crock grave" in some places.

The so-called "dutiful son" personally sent his 6-year-old mother to the grave in the name of "filial piety". Every time he gave his mother a meal, he would put a brick on the grave, which was very popular at that time.

The "crock grave" is a big "black spot" in the history of social development. Generally speaking, no one will believe such a thing when it is said, but it is an indisputable fact in history. As mentioned in Folk Miscellaneous Talks, the custom of "earthen pot grave" is a custom somewhere in Yunnan. When the old people at home are nearly 6 years old, they will start digging "earthen pot grave" for the old people.

In fact, it is a hole that is not much bigger than the human body. Later, masonry will be built around the hole, but a hole will be left without masonry. The whole tomb looks like a "crock", so it is named.

When the old man in the family turns 6, the "dutiful son" will personally send the old man to this "earthen pot grave". They will send the old man a meal every day, and every time they send a meal, they will add a brick to the grave until the whole "earthen pot grave" is sealed. In this way, the old man is alive, and he has to wait for death slowly in the "crock grave".

However, this so-called funeral custom is simply ridiculous now. It is immoral to send one's living parents to the grave and indirectly kill them. Why is it respected in some places?

In fact, the appearance of "earthen pot grave" is closely related to the local economic development level. Where there is a "earthen pot grave", the whole development is basically backward, and it is not developed enough in terms of economic level or way of thinking.

Under this background, people spread the backward concept of "live a long life" at will, and even take it as a standard, thinking that the old people living in the world are killing their children and grandchildren,

which will make their children and grandchildren live shorter. Now it sounds ridiculous. However, at that time, this concept was indeed generally accepted by people in some places.

In addition, because the economic conditions are not very good

, the more people in the family, the greater the pressure to support them, which is why some of them want to do this.

Fortunately, the custom of "earthen pot grave" only appeared in a certain historical period, but it was eventually eliminated by history. "Filial piety comes first in all the virtues". Filial piety is a good moral character of our Chinese nation. We should inherit and develop this excellent culture, but we should abandon the cultural dross such as "earthen pot grave" and pay attention to the unfilial behavior. As Confucius said, "Only filial piety can relieve worries".