Revealed: Wakan grave cruelty custom, the son will put his mother in the grave, send a meal plus a brick

Chinese since ancient times has been circulating a sentence "hundred good filial piety first", filial piety is a Chinese most valued things, this is also common sense, after all, the parents painstakingly bring up the child, the child must be To return the favor to the parents. But in ancient times, there is a kind of bad customs, called tile grave.

This custom of abandoning the elderly does not only exist in our country, but also in Japan, Korea and other countries. This custom refers to the fact that when an old man reaches the age of 60, he will be sent by his son to a pre-determined tiled grave outside the village, and every time the child comes to bring food, he will add a brick, and when the window of the grave closes after one year, the old man will be buried in the grave by himself.

Of course this custom is not a mere filial disobedience on the part of the children, let alone the parents voluntarily going to their deaths at the age of sixty, but it stems from the feudal rule of the time. In ancient times, people's average life expectancy was not high, and it was not easy to reach the age of 50. So the rulers at that time thought that old people who had reached the age of 60 had lost their ability to work and were useless to the society and the country, and they should go to their deaths willingly.

In this social context, even if the children and grandchildren were filial, but in the way of the orders given by the ruler, no one dared to disobey. If the children or grandchildren were very insistent that their parents should not die, the ruler would probably order the whole family to be executed, a situation that the parents would not want to see.

They would often choose to voluntarily enter the wakan grave and wait for death for the sake of their children's safety. This custom of abandoning the old is the dregs of ancient feudal society, and although it has left us, we should always take it as a lesson. We should inherit the good tradition of honoring the elderly in the Chinese nation, and only if we as children do filial piety, our descendants will follow our example and be filial to us.

The thread in the hands of a loving mother, the clothes on the body of a traveling son. We, as children, are not able to return to our parents, and there is not much time to be filial to our parents, so start from this moment to let our parents feel our love.