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Chapter 83 The Inhuman Moment 2
Cannibal records in ancient China

Whether the world is rising or falling, it is the common people who suffer in the end.In the history of China, even in the prosperous times, once any droughts and floods occurred, or some natural disasters and man-made disasters, it was possible to cause the incident of cannibalism.In Bai Juyi's poem, "It was a drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people in Quzhou cannibalized" is a true portrayal.

This is the case in the prosperous ages, and when the country is in war, the lives of the people are even more worthless, and they can be trampled on at will and taken by others.In the third year of Tang Xizong's neutralization, Huang Chao and Qin Zongquan allied forces to attack Chenzhou.

According to historical records, at that time, "thieves besieged Chen County for three hundred days, and there was still no crops in the Kanto region. People were hungry and leaned against the walls. The thieves captured people and ate them, killing thousands of people every day. The thieves had a pound mill village, and hundreds of giant pestles were born. A person crushes it in a mortar, puts it together and eats it."

It can be seen how cruel the method of cannibalism of the Huangchao rebels is.Thousands of people are killed every day, and these people have to be ground alive and swallowed into the stomach together with bones and meat.As an expert in cannibalism, Huang Chao's method of cannibalism cannot but make people shudder.

The people at that time were very miserable. The army fought and besieged the city, and the food and grass were quickly exhausted. When the grass roots and edible things were exhausted, people began to use clay to make cakes to satisfy their hunger, but the number of people who starved to death continued to increase rapidly.In order to survive, the army sold the people, drove and slaughtered those innocent people like pigs and sheep. During the melee between the imperial army and the rebel army, countless people died of starvation and freezing to death. The meat has already been cut off in large pieces and sold.At that time, human meat was sold in the market at a price of 100 renminbi per catty, and dog meat was sold at 500 renminbi per catty.

During the war, the use of human flesh to satisfy hunger happened from time to time. According to the "Old History of the Five Dynasties", when the separatist warlord Liu Shouguang besieged Cangzhou during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, "there was a great hunger in the city, people usurped the food, and the remains were dissected. As for eating, six to seven out of ten people turn to death and stand upright."

There was a famine in the city, people ate each other, and there were bones everywhere. Of course, these were helpless actions due to excessive hunger, but some people did it deliberately. For example, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the former Qin Fudeng led the army At that time, he called the killed enemies "cooked food" and let his soldiers eat the meat of these enemies. He also declared, "If you kill the enemy in the morning, you will have meat to eat at night. Are you afraid of starving? The only way to eat these dead people meat, so that we can fight more valiantly in the future."

At the end of the Sui Dynasty and the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Zhu Can, who claimed to be the King of Jialou Luo, led 20 troops to kill and plunder near the Hanshui and Huaihe Rivers. He took all the supplies without breaking through a city, and destroyed if there were more.And seeing that if there was nothing to grab, he used women and children as food for soldiers to cook.He also said: "The beauty of food is better than human flesh! But I don't care about people from other countries."

In the last years of Chongzhen, locust plagues and droughts occurred in Henan and Shandong.After the grass roots and bark were eaten clean, the phenomenon of cannibalism also appeared. There is a bloody story recorded in the notes of the Ming Dynasty.

A young man surnamed Zhou went to a restaurant in Xian County, Hebei to eat.The boss looked at the kitchen and said that the meat had been eaten, and asked the guest to wait a while.

Then he asked the shop waiter to drag the two women to the kitchen, and first made a hoof to come out. The young man surnamed Zhou only heard a scream, and when he went to the kitchen, he saw that the women's arms had been chopped off.The young man felt that he couldn't bear it, so he bought the other healthy women to be his wives.

Of course, this is just a notebook story, and it is not known whether it is true or not, but it can also give a glimpse of the scene at that time, and there is still a shadow of reality.There is a sentence in Ji Xiaolan's handwriting "Vegetable People": "It is better to be a peaceful dog than a person in a troubled world." In troubled times, the fate of people is indeed worse than that of pigs and dogs.

Zhuang Chuo, a native of the Song Dynasty, wrote in "Chicken Ribs": "Since the year of Jingkang Bingwu (1126 A.D.), Jin Di was in chaos, and in the six or seven years, the roads of Shandong, Jingxi, Huainan and other roads have been covered with thorns and hazels for thousands of miles. Thousands, and you can't get it... The price of human flesh is lower than that of dogs and hogs, and a fat one is only fifteen thousand, and the whole body is worthless. Dengzhou Fan Wen led a loyal man, Shaoxing Kuichou went to Qiantang at the age of Shaoxing, and there were Those who hold it until they are still eating. The old and thin men call it Rao's fire, the woman and the young one are called the soup sheep, and the children are called the bone rotten; and the eyes are two-legged sheep."

It can be seen from this text that not only the various prices of human flesh and the different names of human flesh of different ages are written out, but also people are called "two-legged sheep", which means that human beings are nothing more than two It can be seen that cannibalism was not a particularly rare thing in that era.

Born in a horrible and troubled world, it is a misfortune whether it is a commoner or a royal family or aristocrat.Everyone has the possibility of being eaten by their companions.In the age of famine, human dignity and the bottom line of morality are not worth the value of a full meal. However, according to the records of ancient history books, it can be seen how insensitive the victims were at that time, as if they should be eaten.

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