Each of us will eventually experience life, old age, illness and death in this lifetime, which we cannot avoid. The ancients were more important to death than we modern people saw, and in the minds of the ancients, they felt that the death of man was not the end, but a new beginning. It is precisely for this reason that the ancients attach great importance to the dead, and even in order to be able to protect the body of the person who depends on it, it can be said that they have tried all kinds of ways, because the ancients believe that the dead will go to another world to continue to live after death, if the body decays, then it will be very sad, and even lose their face. Especially the emperors and concubines in ancient times, in the feudal thinking of the ancients, they felt that the emperor would continue to live in another world after his death, so in order to allow the emperor to continue to enjoy the rich life treatment before his death, he would place many precious funerary items in the mausoleum for the emperor, and even let the concubines in the harem be martyred for him.
In ancient times, before those concubines were buried, the palace women would first block the 7 tricks with their desires, and everyone was very confused about this, why did they do this? Blocking the 7 tricks with jade can ensure that the body does not decompose. After the harem concubines died, the first thing to do was to embalm the corpses. Most of the antiseptic treatment of corpses by ancient people is soaked in mercury and used mercury to achieve the effect of preservative. After the concubine's body is soaked in mercury, it has the ability to prevent embalming, and in order to prevent the mercury in the body from flowing out of the 7 tricks, so the ancients conveniently used mercury to "meet the jade and condense" characteristics, so that the palace women used jade to block the 7 tricks. This can prevent the leakage of essence qi, and at the same time prevent the mercury from flowing out of the body.
At the same time, when the concubines are buried, they will also wear some golden jade clothes, and then be buried in the sarcophagus, and finally cooperate with the dry and oxygen-deficient environment in the tomb to achieve the effect of antiseptic. After the ancients passed away, most people parked the corpse for three days or 7 days, and the more honorable the status, the longer the person parked. So in order to be able to let those who die in the parking, can maintain their original state, so a series of related anti-corrosion treatment, if not related anti-embalming treatment, then it is easy to rot and deteriorate, which for those emperors and concubines who are high in status, is a very loss of dignity and face.
The practice of using mercury to prevent embalming has long disappeared from the funerary culture, but the practice of blocking the 7 tricks has been used, and when people die, there will be professional people to deal with them, and they will also seal the 7 tricks for the body. The reason for this is not disrespect for the deceased, but has a certain scientific basis. After death, the blood in the body will stop flowing with the heart stopping beating, and when the blood stops flowing, it will not take long for it to condense. And the body's immune defense line will also collapse rapidly, the bacteria in the body will multiply rapidly, and a large number of harmful substances will be released.