Why do ancient people have to be buried alive at the age of 60?

Sixty Jiazi and Fenzi's tomb are in Jiaodong. There has always been a legend: at some time in ancient times, there was a custom in Jiaodong that the elderly over 60 years old would be sent to the grave by their children. Leave a small mouth in front of the grave for the children to deliver food to the elderly. Generally, children will give the elderly 35 days of food, and filial piety will be given at most 100 days. Then they will stop sending meals to the old people, and the old people will starve to death. This legend has always been very popular, but the experts who study the history of archives have searched through all kinds of materials, but they have never found the relevant content, so they have always been skeptical about this legend. China people have always had a tradition of respecting the elderly. It is too late for children to respect the elderly. How can this absurd custom happen? Loyalty to the monarch and filial piety to the elderly has always been a deep-rooted concept in people's hearts. How can there be such a barren practice? However, people who believe in Sixty Jiazi always think that there is evidence, that is, the Fen Tomb in Jiaodong area.

I interviewed this story with a reporter from a superior TV station two days ago. It is said that there are many such graves in Jianggezhuang, Muping District, Yantai City. Wang Benshi, director of the Shi Zhiban in Muping District, has seen it, and there are pictures in Muping's literature and history materials. It is said that there have been many such graves on the mountain between Xi 'an Village and Jianggezhuang Village in Jianggezhuang Town, and they have also been found in Hongshuitou Village. But why there is such a grave has not been determined.

There is a coffin under the coffin grave, and there is a round building on the ground, which is round and sharp, much like the helmet of an ancient warrior. Some people once wondered if this was the place where people over 60 years old were placed in ancient times, because this legend has always been very prosperous. However, Yantai Museum and Mu Ping County Archives are skeptical because there is no data to prove that this custom ever happened. Some experts believe that this kind of building may be used by ancient people for sacrifice, because ancient tombs are generally lush with trees, and people burn paper during sacrifice and are prone to fire. Therefore, people built some buildings and burned paper in them to ensure safety. We asked experts, and the shape of this tomb is very similar to the helmet of an ancient soldier. Was it influenced by the garrison at that time? Because the Mongolian army stationed a large number of troops in Jianggezhuang area in the Yuan Dynasty, the strange clothes of these Mongolian soldiers and horses may have influenced the Han people. In addition, Mongols like to use round yurts when they live, which is similar to the shape of graves, and perhaps their graves are similar to this. Experts believe that this has yet to be verified. I once asked an expert whether this kind of tomb is rectangular underground and round on the ground, and whether it is influenced by the round place of Zhouyi. Experts also said that they could not draw a conclusion. What's the mystery in this? It has yet to be verified by experts. Supplementary answer: This was called buried alive in ancient times.

Ancient tombs and brick arches are common in central Hebei, and there is often a sleeping bed in them. Old people in rural areas are called "living dead".

Jiaodong Peninsula also has this legend, which is said to be the burial system of the Yuan Dynasty.

Legend has it that I don't know in which dynasty and generation, the court made a rule that the old man would leave home to live in the grave at the age of 60. If his children have filial piety, they can be asked to send meals for 100 days and then starve to death with the elderly. Because 60 years is Jiazi, there is a saying that "60-year-old flowers (hair) Jiazi", and the game of killing the old people is called "Qiu Zi points".

According to Xinhuanet's May 10 report, the naked "Qiu Zi's Tomb" was found in Muping District, Development Zone and Penglai of Yantai City.

There is an old legend that the local old people in Yantai may still remember: I don't know in which dynasty or generation, the court made a rule that the old people who have reached the age of 60 will leave home and live in the grave if they don't die. If their children are filial, they can be given food for one hundred days and then starve to death with the elderly. Because 60 years is a jiazi, there is a saying of "sixty-year-old flower jiazi", and the game of killing the old man's place is called "Qiu Zi grave".

The legend of "Qiu Zifen" is not groundless. This kind of naked "Qiu Zi powder" has been found in Muping District, Development Zone and Penglai of Yantai. Anyone who has seen this tomb can't help wondering: whose tomb is so simple? Look at the shape of the bone. Were they alive before they were buried? Is the legend that has been passed down to this day really true? The Chinese nation has regarded filial piety as a fine tradition since ancient times. How can it tolerate this practice of destroying interpersonal relationships?

With the deepening of archaeological excavations, The Secret Behind, the "Qiu Zi Tomb", was torn apart layer by layer.

Mysterious "Qiu Zifen"

Exposed graves can often be seen in roadside ravines and cliffs in Jiaodong area. Most of them are masonry structures, and the tomb wall gradually narrows from the bottom to make a circular dome, which looks a bit like the old oil basket, so people call it the "oil basket tomb". Most of these graves are very small, but they are one meter square, and people can't even lie in them, just like a farmer's chicken nest, so some people call them "chicken nest graves".

Lin Xianting, former deputy director of Yantai Museum, told reporters that there is a small brick bed at the bottom of this tomb. There are often a bunch of human bones, one or two heads, a rice bowl and a water bottle next to it. This pile of human bones doesn't look like a dead person lying down at ordinary times, but looks like a squatting or sitting posture. People think that this may be the place where ancient people buried their bodies (the bodies were buried after being parked), so many places in Jiaodong also call this kind of grave "Qiu Zi Tomb" and "Mold Tomb".

Before the 1990s, archaeologists had excavated many such graves sporadically, which were called "enemy graves". In recent years, this kind of tomb has been excavated several times on a large scale. In 2002, a number of small tombs were discovered when the construction site of Yi Gang Village North was started. Archaeologists rushed to the scene and found that the tomb area was very large, with more than 10 thousand square meters. Most of the exposed tombs are brick tombs with square domes. The workers and peasants nearby said: Isn't this the mound grave of the older generation? Archaeologists thought this cemetery was a good opportunity to solve the mystery, so they conducted three archaeological excavations on this tomb group, and * * * cleared more than 60 brick tombs and a few stone tombs.

In 2003, during the construction of Yantai-Penglai highway project, the Municipal Museum and Penglai Cultural Relics Bureau excavated Nanwujia tombs in Penglai, the same as Gangying tombs. In 2005, such tombs were discovered in Wang Gan Duncun North and Chenjiacun West of Laishan.

"The characteristics of these tombs are very prominent. Most of them are made of thin gray bricks and buried in the ground very shallowly. They all look like ground houses. " Lin Lao said that it is impossible to use wooden beams and arches like houses because they have to resist earth pressure and rot underground, so they have to be made into domes. Its plane shape is mostly square, but also hexagonal and octagonal. There is a low brick bed in the northern half of the cemetery. There are windows on the straight wall, and there are often triangular lampstands on the east wall. In more advanced tombs, there are many screens on the east and west walls. "Of course, all the furnishings are not real, they are all carved with bricks, and they only play a symbolic role-the underworld of the dead!" Lin Lao said jokingly.