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This late Qing Lao ** shows a shocking picture: a young woman is ruthlessly put to the ground after being put into a pig cage. She is about to face a cruel pig cage punishment and be drowned alive.
The surrounding onlookers were indifferent and insensitive, accustomed to this kind of punishment. In ancient Chinese feudal society, the phenomenon of male superiority and female inferiority was very serious, and women were often deeply bound by feudal ethics and had a very low status.
However, this was not the case with the original status of women. Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the mainstream values formulated by the Zhou royal family have been the Zhou rites of "determining the noble and the lowly, and respecting the lowly". Although the status of women was relatively low at that time, they still had a certain degree of freedom in marrying, working, etc.
To be precise, they are "humble but not cheap". For example, it is recorded in "Zhou Li, Diguan, and Matchmaker": "In the month of mid-spring, men and women will be ordered. So the time is also, and the runners can't help it.
If the order is not used without reason, he will be punished. These accounts indicate that women at that time had some freedom in choosing a mate, and that if anyone violated the rules, they would be punished.
Therefore, despite the relatively low status of women, they are not completely bound but have a certain freedom.
In ancient times, unmarried men and women could freely fall in love and combine without interference, but refusal to participate in similar blind date activities would be punished. With the strengthening of feudal imperial power, the status of women plummeted, and the society reached its peak in the Ming and Qing dynasties, exerting unprecedented pressure on women, such as the flood of chastity arches, and the felony of women remarrying.
In this context, a series of tortures against women have been generated, such as immersion in pig cages. Immersion in the pig cage was a lynching of clans in southern China in the late Qing Dynasty, where the patriarch controlled the power of women's life and death, and imposed various criminal laws on women in order to maintain the majesty of the clan, such as repudiating wives only in seven circumstances.
Historically, there has been a form of torture called "pig cage immersion", which was mainly used to punish those who misbehaved and violated ethics. This kind of torture is extremely cruel and is often used to maintain women's chastity to protect the so-called "moral bottom line".
When women are found to be in an inappropriate relationship with another person, or misbehave, the patriarch sentences them to death by "immersing themselves in a pig cage". The torture equipment of the pig cage is made of woven bamboo strips, which are cylindrical and reticulated, sealed on one side and left an opening on the other.
At the time of execution, stones are stuffed into a cage and thrown into a deep pool. The whole process is full of insults and pain, and it is a great destruction of human nature.
For example, in November 2012, a diver scuba dived in the mysterious Green Cave Pond in Yanqian Village, Longwen Town, Meixian County, Guangdong Province, and found a human skeleton at a depth of about 40 meters in the pool.
Chains around the neck and hands**. The news caused a stir. Cui, deputy director of the Underwater Archaeology Center of the Guangdong Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, immediately went to investigate, and he did find more than 10 human skeletons.
Experts preliminarily identified these bones as belonging to the late Qing Dynasty. At that time, the reporter interviewed the residents of Iwazen Village, and one of them, 86-year-old lady Li Bomu, said that since she married Iwazen Village, she had heard the village elders say that Green Cave Pond has been a place for hundreds of years where clans in Iwazen Village and surrounding villages punish villagers who violate the township rules and people's covenants and feudal clan rules.
According to Libham, if a village woman behaves inappropriately and a man acts as a thief, he may be chained, put in a bamboo "pig cage", and then thrown into a green cave and drowned.
This shows that the pig cage is not fictional, but real in the late Qing Dynasty.