According to archaeological findings, there are more than 100 bodies in Zhou Youwang's tomb, of which Zhou Youwang is the only male and the others are female. There were individual martyrs, including the princes' minions, and the ministers they trusted were buried with Qin Mugong after his death.
He Lv, the king of Wu in the Spring and Autumn Period, was the most cruel and hateful. On the day this guy gave a woman a funeral, he was fighting all the way. The lively scene attracted hundreds of people who ate melons, but curiosity kills the cat was never expected. As a result, these people were buried alive in graves and buried with them.
After the death of Qin Shihuang, Qin Ershi led officials, wives and harem wives to escort the hearse to Mount Li. After arriving at the cemetery, Hu Hai suddenly ordered all the concubines who had never given birth to children to be buried. At that time, after Qin Shihuang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, there were so many concubines that most of them didn't even have a chance to see Qin Shihuang, let alone have children, so they were tragically buried alive in the mausoleum.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the practice of martyrdom was somewhat restrained, and some methods of replacing it with wooden figurines and pottery figurines were added, but they did not disappear, among which several emperors in the early Ming Dynasty were the most famous. It is said that after Zhu Yuanzhang died, 38 concubines were buried in the harem. And 16 concubines were martyred after Judy's death, the fifth was Injong, and the eighth was Xuanzong, which was not abolished until Zhu Qizhen, Ming Yingzong.
The above is just a list of the history of martyrdom. In fact, the most terrible thing about martyrdom is the way the victim died, which can be described as varied and terrible. Readers should be psychologically prepared, and timid people should be cautious.
Although there were few volunteers in ancient times, 99% of the victims were forced to die, so the ways of death were cruel, mainly beheading, hanging, poisoning, buried alive and so on.
Among them, "poisoning" is also particular, and silver should be injected into the martyrs, because if people are poisoned by mercury, their bodies will not rot; "Burying alive" is to tie the hands and feet of the martyrs, put them in a certain posture, and then fill the soil quickly.
1987 Tomb No.45 in Xishuipo, Puyang, Henan Province, has a niche in the east, west and north directions, and a child's bone in different directions. Experts believe that these three children are martyrs and should be typical "buried alive" martyrs.