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How horrible was the sacrificial culture of the Shang Dynasty?

We all know that the Shang Dynasty was the prevalence of living sacrifices, living sacrifices of other dynasties in Chinese history, but the Shang Dynasty sacrifices can be regarded as horrible. Whether it is from the way of killing, or selecting the object, or initiating the name and the total number of deaths, it is like a disaster movie. They not only killed, beheaded, burned, threw into the water, cut open the body, took out the internal organs, the means of cruelty is incomparable. And they didn't even spare virgins, teenagers and children. More surprising is that the frequency of Shang dynasty people sacrifice is quite high, the number of human and animal deaths is shocking, did not think that the civilization of the bright Shang dynasty, it is built on the sacrifice and martyrs white bones.