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Are there any cases of cannibalism in history?
Yes, it is recorded in history. Eating human flesh, economy and hunger are very close. Take the Han Dynasty as an example. We can see these frightening records in Hanshu, Houhanshu and Zitongzhijian: First, in the second year of Emperor Gaozu (205 BC), "people eat each other, and more than half of the dead." Second, in June of the second year of Emperor Gaozu (205 BC)-"Hunger in Guanzhong, ... People eat people" Third, in the third year of Jianyuan (0/38 BC), "The river overflowed the plain and people ate people." Fourth, in the sixth year of Jianyuan (BC 135)-Henan ... father and son were mutually destructive. "Five, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty decided to go far for three years (-14 years ago)-"Kanto County is hungry, and the people eat each other. " Sixth, in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (48 BC)-villages in Guandong County 1 1, floods, hunger or cannibalism. "7. Two years before the Han and Yuan emperors (47 BC)-"People in Langxing County eat each other. " Eight, the second year of Emperor Hancheng (BC 15)-"People in Liangyuan County Eat Each Other" Nine, the first year of Han Tianfeng (BC 14)-"People eat each other because of extreme hunger." Ten, Wang Han mang emperor three years (AD 22)-"Kanto, people eat people. “Xi。 When Wang Mang was in the Han Dynasty-"People were in the north, eating each other quietly." XII. In the first year of Jianwu (AD 25), Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty, "People are hungry for food." Thirteen, the second year of Jianwu of Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty (AD 26)-"Three auxiliary things are hungry, and people eat each other. "Fourteen. In the second year of Emperor Han 'an (A.D. 108), "there was great hunger in counties and counties, and ... people ate people." 15. In the third year of Emperor Han 'an (AD 109), March-"The capital is hungry, and the people eat each other." 16. December of the third year of Emperor Han 'an (A.D. 109)-"Two states are hungry, and people eat each other." 17. In the first year of Yuan Jia, Emperor Huan of Han Dynasty (A.D. 15 1 year), "Hungry people eat each other in Liangcheng." 18. The first year of Emperor Huan's longevity (AD 155). -"Hunger in Jizhou, Li Si, People Eat Each Other" XIX. Three years after the founding of Emperor Han Ling (AD 170)-"eat woman from Hanoi, eat woman from Henan." Twenty, the first year of Xingping (AD 194)-"People eat people." 2 1. In the second year of Jian 'an of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty (AD 1977), "Jianghuai people eat each other." All the examples mentioned above are the history of cannibalism in China. The main reason for these cruel phenomena is the famine year. There are also some human factors, the most obvious of which is war. During the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the armies of Zhang Xun and Xu Yuan were surrounded by the armies of An Lushan in Yang Ya. Later, because I was surrounded for too long, I ate everything, including horses, mice, sparrows and so on. So everyone exchanged children for food (they could not bear to eat their own, so they exchanged). When all the children finished eating, Zhang Xun actually killed his aunt. He said to the soldiers guarding the city: "You have worked hard for your country, and you have nothing to eat for a long time, but you are still loyal. My own body can't feed you. Can I pity women? " So, starting with the patrolling concubines, everyone tried their best to eat woman. Women eat up and eat men. There are 60,000 people in Yang Ya. When An Lushan finally breached, there were only a few hundred people left. (Zhang Xun's practice of killing relatives and eating relatives is of course very problematic, because the purpose of guarding the city is to resist the "inhuman" rebels. But he even ate his wife. Where is the so-called humanity? ) Another example is that when the Tang Dynasty believed in Buddhism (86), Yang Xingmi surrounded Guangling City (now Yangzhou) for half a year. People in the city are too hungry. The army openly arrested people, sold them, tied them up, and killed people like pigs. This is another cruel example. There are many such examples! In the second year of Emperor Zhao of the Tang Dynasty (AD 902), Fengxiang City was surrounded, and human flesh was openly sold in the city. The price of human flesh is not as good as that of dog meat, which is 500 yuan per catty, while human flesh is only 100 yuan per catty. In the third year of Emperor Gaozong of Song Gaozong (AD 133), there was also a scene of eating human flesh in Hang Cheng, and there was another name: thin men and women, called "burning fire"; Girls are called "Xiatang sheep" and children are called "rivers and lakes rotten". These eaten people are collectively called "bipedal sheep". In the sixth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (A.D. 180 1 year), Luo Siju's troops in Sichuan were short of food, so they began to eat prisoners and ate more than 3,500 people! The last example above refers to eating enemy meat. Historically, there have been many such cases. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, this fact existed for a long time. During the Warring States period, Sun Yat-sen wanted to eat the meat of a courtier who had an affair with a foreign country, and he wanted to keep it for himself. Wang Mang was killed in the Han Dynasty, and dozens of people scrambled to eat him. Hou Jing died in the Liang Dynasty, and the body belongs to Shu Ren. Hou Jing's chief of staff, Wang Wei, was also publicly cooked and then shared. In the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang boiled the rebellious officials to death and distributed the meat to the officials. Xue, who lives in Kansai, hates Yuli's refusal to surrender, and cuts meat on the fire and gives it to the soldiers (Yuli is the son of writer Yu Xin). Max Zhang in Sui Dynasty claimed that Ben had made an insurrection in Hebei, and was caught by officers and men, tied to a shelf and eaten by his enemies. During the reign of Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty, Lai Junchen, a fierce official, was beheaded, and his enemies scrambled to eat his meat. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister Yang (the delicate Yang Guifei's brother) was killed by soldiers. He was eaten because everyone hated him. At the end of the Jin Dynasty, Zhang Yanze was executed, and the people scrambled to drink his brain and eat his flesh. During the reign of ancestors in the Yuan Dynasty, a nuisance named Ahema was killed. The local soldiers and civilians were so happy that everyone shared his meat and ate it all. When Liu Li, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, was killed, the people hated his guts and paid for his meat. These are all examples of eating human flesh out of hatred. There is also a hobby, these are extremely cruel bad people. For example, the thief Zhu case in the Tang Dynasty was cannibal. He specializes in cooking children and eat woman. He actually said: "The beauty of food is better than human flesh!" "His feeling is that the most delicious thing in the world is human flesh! There is also a cannibal, Zhao Sixian of the Five Dynasties. He likes human liver best, and he also likes to swallow human internal organs with wine. He believes that eating human guts can make him bold. He said, "If you swallow this lump, your intestines will be invincible!" "There are many such cannibals in history. The most cruel is the "Huai Right Army" of the Yuan Dynasty. This kind of army likes to eat people best. Their way of eating is to hold people on iron shelves and bake them raw, and some of them are scalded with boiling water. I really can't write down the degree of cruelty. In addition to the above cases of eating human flesh, there is a special example, which is for the purpose of treating diseases. It turns out that in the tradition of China, there is a superstition called "cutting stocks to save relatives", which means that if a person is sick and wants to get better, he has to eat the flesh of his own relatives. This superstition that human flesh can cure diseases began in the Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, a man named Chen Zangqi wrote a medical book called Notes on Materia Medica, which pointed out that human flesh can cure diseases. Then the result spread slowly, and the average fool really believed it. When mom and dad's parents-in-law are sick, filial sons and daughters-in-law will come out to "cut their thighs", hoping to help their loved ones heal with their own meat. Their intentions are good, but they are stupid.