But the sacrifice to the gods is to offer sacrifices, there are many sacrifices, the people take food as the sky, the usual sacrifice is meat, meat is the most, in the primitive society, meat is hunted with life in human face, the ancient meat sacrifice is called animal sacrifice, there are horses, cattle, sheep, dogs, pigs and other livestock, and later generations are called six animals.

Of course, in addition to animals, there are all kinds of ritual vessels, ritual utensils have metal hungry jade, jade is better, jade ancient nobles wear treasures, jade is very precious, people regard jade as a beautiful pronoun, and jade is indispensable when sacrificing.

Later, the sacrificial culture was more and more important, and the sacrifices also developed to people, and people were used as sacrifices to the gods, which was called "human sacrifice" in ancient books.

Human sacrifice, not only in primitive religions, but also in later stages of development, is the darkest page in the history of religion.

Human sacrifice originated in tribal warfare in primitive societies. At that time, the level of productivity was low, and the value of human beings could not be reflected. Prisoners of war, women could be left to play with, children could be adopted, and adult men were killed as sacrifices to the gods.

The Shang Dynasty's human sacrifice was blazing, and there were not only a large number of divination descriptions, but also archaeological relics to prove it.

Human sacrifices take the form of burning, drowning, burying alive, piercing the throat and draining blood, beheading, and even chopping people into meat and steaming them into meat soup. Although the phenomenon of human sacrifice in the Spring and Autumn Period was not as shocking and tragic as that of the Shang Dynasty, it was not uncommon.

When the Bronze Age began, women lost their matriarchal clan status due to lack of physical strength, and gradually became slaves of men, and their production and reproductive abilities were also relegated to a secondary position.

On the contrary, the need for female beauty to cater to male rulers was one-sidedly emphasized, and good-looking female slaves became victims of lust, and in order to satisfy the desires of imaginary gods for women, the custom of sacrificing beautiful women arose.

Whether killed, buried alive, or drowned, it is a manifestation of entertaining the gods with beauty. Nominally, they let their souls be the wives and concubines of the gods, but in fact they are for the gods to play with.

There is also the phenomenon of sacrificing boys and girls to the gods in human sacrifices, and the human body of childhood is used as sacrifices, one is because the flesh of the child is tender, and the other is based on the fact that the gods like children, and the children are innocent, pure and flawless, which is related to the pursuit of immortality and immortality.

But when Yan Wenbin saw the nine bronze tripods in front of the sacrificial pit, he knew that the sacrifice here was of the highest level, and it was also for the gods.

Jiuding is synonymous with China, as well as a symbol of the supremacy of royal power and the unity and prosperity of the country, and the three dynasties of the Xia Dynasty, the Shang Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty are regarded as the heirloom of national power.

During the Warring States Period, Qin and Chu all had the matter of Xingshi to Luoyi, the city of Zhou Wang, when King Zhou Xian, Jiuding was not under Surabaya, and the emperors of later generations attached great importance to the symbolism and significance of the rights of Jiuding, and also repeatedly recast Jiuding, Wu Zetian and Song Huizong also cast Jiuding.

According to legend, in the early years of the Xia Dynasty, King Dayu of Xia divided the world into Kyushu, so that the state of Kyushu contributed bronze, cast Jiuding, symbolizing Kyushu, and engraved the famous mountains and rivers of Kyushu in the country and strange things in the body of Jiuding, symbolizing a state with a tripod, and concentrating Jiuding in the capital of the Xia Dynasty.

Since it is a sacrifice to the gods, and there are nine tripods coexisting, the sacrifice is also the last kind of human sacrifice, and it is also a living sacrifice, and the living sacrifice has the highest specifications, often using human blood, also called blood sacrifice.

There is also a kind of blood sacrifice called "big red sacrifice", which specifically refers to the killing of living people as sacrifices to worship gods, and is an important part of primitive religious sacrifice activities.

Blood is a special kind of sacrifice. The ancients believed that blood has a soul, and that blood can sustain the life of a person or animal, and that once blood is lost, it means injury or even death, as if blood has a magical power.

However, Yan Wenbin hated the blood sacrifice the most, because the blood sacrifice was cruel and inhumane, and it mostly used women and children, and the methods were very cruel.

"I know what to do", Lao Hu took the peace charm and walked to the sacrificial pit with his cold subordinates, although he was wearing gloves, Lao Hu still wrapped his hands with clothes, and slowly opened the moss in the soil in the center of the sacrificial pit.

Under the moss were human heads, the heads of children, who were buried in the earth, only their foreheads were exposed to the ground, and although it was a long time, the skin did not rot, and the sacrifices were presumably turned into dried corpses.

But the expressions on the faces of the people buried in the earth were strange, and some of them bared their teeth and grinned, and they must have been very painful before they died, and no one knew what kind of inhuman torture these children were subjected to when they were temporary.

The corpses of these children have not decomposed until now, they have been embalmed, the ancient embalming treatment is generally relatively simple, soaking the corpses with mercury, these children must have been poured mercury into their bodies when they were alive, but you can imagine how vicious the people at that time were, even the children who were not yet minors were spared.

"Xiao Gang", Lao Hu looked back at Yan Wenbin, because Yan Wenbin's face was very uncomfortable, Lao Hu didn't know what to do next, so he could only wait for Yan Wenbin's instructions.

Originally, Yan Wenbin wanted to take away the funeral goods inside, but he didn't expect to see such a cruel scene, this time the child stabbed Yan Wenbin's heart, he swore that after seeing the main coffin, he must whip the bones in the coffin three hundred, and then take out the bones in the coffin to feed the dog, and the entire tomb should be brushed with black dog blood, so as to relieve his heartache and hatred.

When he closed his eyes, he could think of these children being locked in iron cages before they died, and they could only hold each other because they were afraid, but one by one the iron cages were opened, and many children were tied to custom-made shelves and pinched their mouths and noses, holding mercury and pouring mercury into their mouths.

The children who were injected with mercury did not die on the spot, because their eyes were gouged out, their mouths and noses had to be sewn together with red thread, and the children in iron cages would have been scared and wept at the sight of such a bloody scene.

"Lao Hu, give me food and wine, whether there is candy or something, and the incense wax paper candles must be prepared", Yan Wenbin squatted on the ground and kept lighting the paper money, hoping that this would comfort the soul of the deceased in the sky.

"Lao Hu, I'm fine, I just feel a little lost when I see this scene, there are a lot of sacrifices in the sacrificial pit, there is no shortage of gold, silver, jewelry and jade, but it's best not to take these things, these things are all resentful, and taking them out is also a harmful thing" Yan Wenbin didn't want to go out with resentment.

"Xiao Gang, I understand, I won't touch such a thing, I am also a principled person, I didn't expect that human sacrifice is so cruel, but what kind of gods are used to sacrifice such rituals, and what kind of cruel way to poison the people, these children who were chosen as sacrifices, they paid the price of their lives, I also felt uncomfortable", Lao Hu also felt deeply.

"Let's go, we can only use this way to alleviate the guilt in our hearts", after Yan Wenbin burned the paper money, he came to the square bronze tripod, although the bronze tripod has been rusted, but there are still a lot of dried blood sacrifices on the surface, and the blood in it is all the children in the sacrificial pit.

On the steps, Lao Hu looked at the nine bronze tripods, which contained the corpses of women who were tied with their backhands, and finally Lao Hu could only walk to the altar.

"Xiao Gang, is this the legendary hydra cypress, the hydra cypress is a hand-like vine, a cannibal tree, with many vines and large limbs, it can wrap around nearby prey to kill, and use decaying animals to attract insects and spread pollination."

"Snake cypress does not directly kill prey, and the death of prey is often caused by corpse turtles, which is a very ingenious symbiotic relationship. At the same time, the feces of the corpse turtle are excellent nutrients, more delicate than the decaying corpse, suitable for the growth of plants."

"According to legend, there will be a snake nest under the snake cypress, and the snake nest is guarded by the snake mother, if anyone can get the snake mother, they will get the snake mother's immortality technique, because the snake mother can live for thousands of years, and everything in front of it is laid out in order to get the god of the snake mother" Lao Hu's imagination is so rich, and he can express his feelings when he sees anything.

"If this is really a snake cypress, I will definitely burn this tree, if I meet the snake mother, I will also serve the bullets, beat the snake mother into a hornet's nest, and even chop the snake mother alive and eat the snake mother meat raw, but this is not a snake cypress, there will be no snake mother, the snake and cypress are all lies."

"This is the Fuso Sacred Tree, and legend has it that on the eastern sea, the Fuso Tree is composed of two large mulberry trees that support each other, and the sun goddess Xi and the great god are raised from here by car for her son Jinwu."

According to the ritual, this should be the connecting gate of the divine realm, the human world, and the underworld, but Dayi stood on it to shoot the sun and break it, and it was difficult to contact the three worlds of man and god.

According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" and other ancient books, the ten days in ancient Chinese sun myths and legends are the sons of Emperor Jun and Xihe, who have the characteristics of both humans and gods, and are the incarnation of the golden crow, which is a three-legged crow and a flying sun god bird.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas: Overseas East Longitude" also says, "There is Fusang on the Tang Valley, and the ten-day bath is in the north of the Black Tooth." dwelling in the water, there are big trees, nine days in the lower branches, one day in the upper branches"; "There is a buttress on the valley of the soup, one day to arrive, one day to rise, all contained in Wu", is the account of the myth and legend of the Ten Days.

The tree of Fusang is ten thousand feet high, and there is a chicken on the tree, which is the nest on the top. Every night solstice, the rooster crows, and the sun bird responds to it in the middle of the day; When the birds sing, the chickens in the world are singing. "

Chinese folklore has that this bird is the essence of the sun, living in the middle of the day, also known as the three-legged black, mythological records, the golden crow lives next to the seat of the West Queen Mother, for its feeding birds, the ultimate deity of this sacrifice is the West Queen Mother.