Carry-on accessories. Businessmen are still white and take mysterious birds as totems, so most people actually have phoenix-shaped gadgets similar to those in Yu Pei later, such as ordinary people with stones and bones; Nobles and rich people use jade, and many totem ornaments made of jade have also been unearthed in women's tombs. We can also imagine that this habit is actually a symbol of good luck and status, just like China's Dai Yupei and westerners wearing a cross on their chests.

Nobles in Shang Dynasty often wore Yu Pei in the shape of a phoenix.

Second, the staple food. At that time, the North China Plain was not as cold as it is today, and the precipitation was richer than today. Therefore, there were a little more economic animals in the Shang Dynasty than in North China today. For example, the number of buffaloes accounted for a large proportion at that time, which showed that people at that time might take rice as their staple food: this was because businessmen often traded with tribes in the south. Merchants' rations are generally millet and millet, which is commonly known as millet today. But most of their meat is purely wild, such as rhinoceros, elephants and all kinds of wild animals that have disappeared in North China today. At that time, a very important skill of nobles was hunting. Hunting was not only for war exercises, but more importantly, nobles needed all kinds of delicious teeth! There are toothpicks specially used to pick teeth, which shows that people's meat intake was still very large at that time. As the ruling tribe, a large part of the merchants may be "meat eaters". Underground warehouses for storing grain have also been found near the ruins of Shang Dynasty, which at least proves that there has been large-scale agriculture in Shang Dynasty.

At that time, people's staple food was millet.

Three clothes to wear. At that time, businessmen wore clothes above and skirts below. Different from today, people in Shang Dynasty, both men and women, had to wear skirts. So when sitting with others, you must kneel, because only kneeling will not expose your nakedness, which is also the origin of future generations. Until today, South Korea and North Korea still have this custom. At that time, the materials were already very rich, including hides, hemp and, even more surprisingly, silk. At that time, there were a lot of divination about silk in Oracle Bone Inscriptions's records, which showed that some people could wear silk clothes at that time. We can all see the influence of merchants in the later history, which fully shows that Shang was a dynasty with great influence on China, and the Zhou people who replaced it later only inherited and carried forward the culture of Shang.

Typical Shang warrior: upper coat and lower skirt

Sacrifice and faith. This is a very important content in the life of Yin people. "Sacrifice to honor and honor is a national event." War and ancestor worship are two things that Shang people value most, so there are a large number of animals that people now think are extremely cruel. This is a very important life custom for businessmen. They not only need animals to worship their ancestors, but also need "people" as gifts for their ancestors to avoid disaster. It was at that time that China people's extremely important ancestor worship was completely established. Ancestor worship is the belief of businessmen.

Merchant sacrifice

The above briefly introduces the life scenes of Shang people, but in fact, people still have many interesting lives that we didn't know at that time. See you next time, about other customs and interesting history of businessmen.