Three Kingdoms: Zhen Mi was given death by Cao Pi, and when she was buried, why did Cao Pi cover her "with her hair covering her face and plugging her mouth with chaff"?
Zhen Mi, a great beauty during the Three Kingdoms period, was killed by her husband Cao Pi. After his death, when Cao Pi buried Zhen Mi, he actually did a thing of "covering his hair and covering his face with chaff to plug his mouth". That is to say, dissolve Zhen Mi's hair, cover Zhen Mi's face, and at the same time stuff chaff in Zhen Mi's mouth. Although we do not know what custom Cao Pi came from. But it can also be seen from this that Cao Pi's dislike for Zhen Mi is great.
At that time, Cao Pi was still a young man in his twenties, a vanguard officer in the army. He saw that Zhen Mi looked very beautiful. At that time, there was a saying in the world called "There are two Joes in the south, and Zhen Mi in the north is pretty." Cao Pi "stunned the fallen sword", while ordering someone to protect Zhen Mi, while asking to see his father. When Cao Pi saw Cao Cao, he said, "Father, I have a crush on a woman and beg my father to marry him." Cao Cao laughed and said, "Wu'er has grown up and reached the age of marriage, I don't know whose girl it is?" Cao Pi said it again. Cao Cao listened to the secret bitterness in his heart, it turned out that he had long learned that Zhen Mi was a beautiful woman, and this attack on Yecheng was to get this woman, who knew that he was robbed by his son.
After obtaining the consent of his father Cao Cao, Cao Pi took Zhen Mi as his wife, and After the marriage, Cao and Zhen were very affectionate, and Zhen Mi and the harem wives and concubines were dignified and orderly, able to coexist in harmony, and filial piety to their in-laws, and also stood in Cao Pi's position and persuaded him to take concubines, so that the people of Cao Province would prosper and spread their branches, and later Zhen Mi gave birth to a son Cao Pi and a daughter Princess Dongxiang.
Zhou Xuan said that there would be a noble woman who would be wrongfully killed, and Cao Pi immediately understood that this noble woman was Zhen, and when Cao Pi wanted to withdraw the order to kill Zhen, but did not come in time. The ancients were very superstitious, and since Zhen was wrongfully killed, what if she went to hades to be wronged? Therefore, Cao Pi adopted the advice of the warlock and buried her "with her hair covered and stuffed with chaff mouth", so that her face could not be shown, her mouth could not speak, and there would be nowhere to seek justice in hades.