The short videos I watched from all dynasties

Li Ranran has watched three episodes in a row of the series on ancient bad habits, and this is the last video.

(The video starts with a few pictures of ordinary-looking towers, but the black and white photos give off a sense of sadness, with a note in white next to them: Baby Tower)

【In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, there were baby towers that were specially used to store abandoned babies. Baby towers vary in shape, some are single tower-shaped buildings, some are building complexes, and some are small pavilions in the countryside. The baby tower is shaped like a small tower with a small hole on top, which is a place for placing the body or ashes of the baby. Next to the tower, there are some baskets that were once used to hold abandoned babies. In short, the baby tower is a place dedicated to handling dead babies, and the babies in it are basically girls. 】

There are no baby boys in the abandoned baby tower, and no silk skirts in the school.

＜I'm already getting angry＞

＜The more a person owes something, the more he fears it. No wonder ghost babies are a horror story＞

[Fusu, the eldest son of the 29th year of Qin Shihuang’s reign: In the Zhou Dynasty, “loving children” was placed at the top of social relief. I never thought that “abandoning babies” would become even worse in the Qing Dynasty]

[Song Shenzong·Zhao Xu: Alas]

[Su Shi, 1685: We should establish a charity organization to rescue children, rather than building a tower to kill infants]

[Many newborn baby girls are killed by various methods before they have any awareness of the world, such as being thrown into rivers or ponds, or covered in blankets. Some parents even boil water to scald their daughters to death and then sink them into the river in order to give birth to a son, so that they will never be reincarnated; some will throw their daughters into a dung bucket and let them die in the filth; some will bury their daughters under the road and let passers-by trample on their bones. They believe that if they kill their daughters in this way, they will never dare to reincarnate in their own family.]

＜Is this guy still a human? ? ? [vomit]＞

＜These people are not worthy of being called human beings, go to hell＞

＜You are the ones who will never be reincarnated! ! ! [crying]＞

[Song Renzong·Zhao Zhen: Not worthy! Not worthy to be called parents at all!!!]

[In the second year of the Xining reign of the Song Dynasty, Wang Tianlin, a native of Huangzhou, said: In Huangzhou, there is a bad habit of drowning newborn babies]

[Guo Zizhang, a Jiangxi native in the seventh year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty: The local people love to drown girls, and it has become a trend. Even though the imperial court has banned it many times, it still cannot be eradicated]

【Killing and abandoning infants have existed since ancient times. In the Song Dynasty, it gradually evolved into the custom of killing infants - "not raising children". That is, not raising children, drowning or throwing away infants. Su Dongpo had seen many cases of infanticide during his exile. A poor farmer named Shi had killed two babies. One summer, his wife gave birth to quadruplets, and he killed his wife and babies with his own hands. Su Shi believed that the inhumane atrocities of drowning infants should be curbed. So he wrote a letter to Zhu Shouchang hoping that the law of "intentionally killing offspring and being sentenced to two years in prison" could be implemented in all counties in Ezhou to warn the people that killing infants would be sentenced. However, even though the rulers of the Song Dynasty took many countermeasures, issued various laws to prohibit infanticide, and established special charity institutions, they failed to change the current situation of infanticide in society. In the Ming Dynasty, there was still a custom of drowning female infants in eastern Zhejiang to facilitate the birth of boys. 】

＜Babies are abandoned because they cannot be raised. Most baby girls are abandoned because boys are favored over girls, because they want to continue the family line, and because they need labor......＞

＜The quadruplets of that era, damn, were they still human? They even killed their wives......＞

＜The Song Dynasty seemed to have a head tax, which was not enough to support the people＞

＜In ancient times, women didn’t use contraception, and they were really miserable, having to give birth over and over again＞

[Empress Wu Zhao of the Zhou Dynasty: The root cause is still poverty]

[Li Deyu, Prime Minister in the second year of Tang Huichang: No matter how many sickhouses there are, they cannot cure all the babies]

[Su Shi in the second year of Song Xining: Is there really no solution...]

[Xu Jie, 26th year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty: Infant drowning is prevalent in the south. Alas, it is difficult, difficult, difficult]

Why drown infants?

poverty

The people were overwhelmed by the taxes. During the reign of Emperor Wu of Han, children had to pay a head tax when they were three years old. In order to evade the taxes, infanticide occurred. The Song Dynasty did everything it could to collect taxes. The high dowry for marrying off daughters. As a result, not only the poor drowned their babies, but the rich also drowned their baby girls. The Ming people controlled the family population. In some places, they only wanted to have two children. If there were more, they would drown them. During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, the "Law on Drowning Women Due to Extravagant Marriage" was formulated. However, infanticide in the Ming Dynasty had already led to an imbalance in the male-female ratio, with more boys than girls. 】

＜The Song Dynasty had a lot of miscellaneous taxes. They themselves said that "the amount of taxes in this dynasty was seven times that of the Tang Dynasty." [Split]＞

＜If raising a few girls exempts them from corvée labor, will infanticide decrease?＞

<Not to mention that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a local official did the same thing. The situation was better, but it did not solve the root cause.>

[Emperor Wu of Han·Liu Che: !!! [Surprised]]

[People in the first year of Song Baoyuan: There are so many taxes and levies, it is not easy to support my son...]

[Liu Ji, the magistrate of Yiyang in the 26th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty: Alas, most people have the idea of ​​favoring sons over daughters, and they will only be willing to raise children if they are given benefits]

[Rescue institutions in various dynasties in ancient times

The Zhou Dynasty placed "loving children" at the top of social welfare relief. From the Western Zhou Dynasty to the Qin and Han Dynasties, under the influence of Confucian culture, loving children and orphans gradually formed a development model of "official-led, private-assisted", which has continued. However, loving children and orphans mostly remained at the level of official policies or intermittent relief activities, as well as local relief by private gentry officials, family groups, etc.

During the reign of Wu Zetian in Chang'an, Buddhism was prevalent, and the Beitian Yangbingfang, which was supervised by the government and operated by temples, appeared. In the Song Dynasty, special organizations for caring for orphans and children were formed. The influence of Confucianism's doctrine of benevolence and righteousness became increasingly profound. Under the advocacy of local officials, organizations for caring for orphans were established in various places in the Southern Song Dynasty. The court ordered the establishment of the Caring for Orphans Bureau in Lin'an Prefecture, mobilizing the power of the central government to alleviate the problem of abandoned babies.

During the Yuan and Ming dynasties, there was stagnation. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, local gentry actively participated in charity and took on the mission of educating society. With the strong promotion of local governments, since the second year of Yongzheng, the official support for private salesian organizations has gradually increased, and salesian organizations have improved the living environment of the lower classes and infants.

<Confucianism can only restrain the imperial court and the gentry who are influenced by Confucianism, but cannot restrain the people at the bottom of society>

＜Most people at the bottom just want to have food to eat and survive... stupid and ignorant...＞

<In the Ming Dynasty, I was surprised that local gentry would do these things>

Who doesn’t want a good reputation?

[Song Shenzong·Zhao Zhen: Although the Southern Song’s approach will not cure the disease completely, can you in the Southern Song send us your approach in detail?]

[Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang: It is not easy to solve]

[In the third year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty: As scholars, we should share the country’s worries and educate the people]

【The derivative customs of infanticide

——Child bride

The people of the Qing Dynasty came up with a solution. Under the promotion of the gentry in Jiangnan, the practice of "child brides" became popular. They were sold to the husband's family to be raised, and when they grew up, they got married and consummated their marriage. The man saved money and gained a labor force, and the woman was also saved from being killed. To a certain extent, it alleviated the difficulties of the poor in giving birth and marrying. Families with daughters did not have to worry about being unable to raise them, and families with sons did not have to worry about not being able to marry in the future. This played a certain role in reducing the phenomenon of drowning girls. Unfortunately, the family status of child brides was very low, and they had no personal freedom. They were almost the same as bought maids. Not only did they have to undertake heavy housework, but they would also be sold as property by their husband's family. This was also a bad habit to suppress another bad habit, and it was not a good way to ban the bad habit of drowning babies. 】

＜ Some people said earlier that infanticide peaked in the Qing Dynasty. I don’t think that’s necessarily the case. The Qing Dynasty is just too close to us, so it’s easier to find information about it. If we find complete information about other dynasties, it would be very scary＞

＜Evil Ghosts in the World＞

Absurd reality

＜So... the final fate of those who didn't drown was just like this...＞

＜Looking through history, it’s all about cannibalism＞

[Emperor Wu of Han·Liu Che: The light curtain released this matter. Is there a solution?]

[Tang Taizong Li Shimin: Once a social custom is formed, it is difficult for the court to completely ban it]

[Princess Taiping of Wu Zhou: Salesian institutions should be vigorously developed. Infanticide must be supported by the court and local governments. If we want to get rid of the people's thoughts, the fastest way is to improve the status of women]

[Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin: The only way to cure the problem is to solve the problem that the people lack the most]

Zhao Kuangyin's words stopped many people who were commenting on the screen. What do the people lack? Money. What do the people want? Live, live well.

[Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty - Zhu Yuanzhang: We should treat the people with both kindness and severity, giving them benefits while enforcing strict laws and regulations]

......

In fact, every dynasty had issued orders to prohibit the occurrence of such incidents, but there were many people who pretended to obey the orders but actually disobeyed them.

System 999 looked at its own energy. Hmm, it turned out that it had accumulated a lot. Humph, do you really think this system is just for show?

In a daze, Li Ranran heard someone asking what the fate of those who did evil things should be? Li Ranran instinctively answered: "Of course, he should also experience the evil things he did!"

Therefore, after scanning all the people in front of the light curtain, System 999 will be determined to punish those who support foot binding, ghost marriages, human sacrifice, infanticide, and even those who are still doing evil - repeating the evil experience.

Those who support or allow others to bind their feet will be forced to bind their feet for life by the 999 system, and the pain will be ten times that of women binding their feet.

Those who secretly use ghost marriage with a living woman will be forced into the coffin by System 999 and buried alive.

Those who commit human sacrifice will have their third eye opened by the system, allowing them to see dark-faced, ferocious ghosts at all times. After their bodies experience a hundred kinds of torture, they will be hanged to death.

Those who drowned their babies would be forced by System 999 to be taken to the riverside to experience the feeling of drowning. Those who were lucky enough not to die would see their drowned babies floating around them with resentment. No matter whether they were boys or girls, they would never have children again. After thinking about it, System 999 also put a bad luck spell on them, and they would either die or be half-disabled in the future.

Before, some people might have thought that the light curtain was just a "thing" rather than a "divine object", but the strange things that happened now really made everyone feel awe.

Those who thought that the light curtain was useless no longer dared to disobey it, because the light curtain was magical.