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Text 958, cremation, public sacrifice

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    "Your Majesty, what should we do with the bones of these fallen soldiers?" Duan Zhixuan, the Minister of Service, asked.  And Li Shimin said: "My dear friends, what do you think should be done?" Jing Wen said: "Your Majesty, these soldiers should be collected and buried. After all, they are all the bones of our Han people. How can we still leave them there?  They died in a foreign country, so their souls can¡¯t return to the country?¡± Duan Zhixuan also said, ¡°Your Majesty, I also thought that we should bury them. But the problem is that these have turned into bones, and their appearance and identity are not known.  There is no way to trace their relatives and hometowns, so it is impossible for us to send them back to their hometowns, and we will not be able to find their ancestral graves to bury them! If this happens, these fallen soldiers will not be able to enjoy the incense of their descendants in the future!  Paying homage, isn¡¯t this also a lonely ghost?¡± And Li Shimin was also a little silent, because this is indeed a huge problem.  In ancient times, people paid great attention to offering incense and offering sacrifices to their ancestors.  Sacrifice was a very important task in ancient times. If you neglect the sacrifice of ancestors, it would be a serious lack of filial piety.  But now these have become bones, so it is impossible to know their appearance, let alone find their original place of origin and ancestral graves.  In ancient times, there was no forensic method that could be used in later generations to see clearly the appearance of the deceased through the skull.  Moreover, in ancient times, there was no household registration network like that of later generations, where one can check someone's identity at any time.  If you cannot enjoy the memorials of future generations, then you are still a lonely ghost in Chinese culture, so this is also a very important issue.  "Also, Your Majesty, these bones have also decayed. Many heads and bodies have been separated, and they have been completely mixed with the other bones. In this way, we will not be able to tell whose corpse is who. If it is so awesome by then,  If you don't send it back, it's impossible!" Duan Zhixuan continued.  These fallen soldiers.  It can be said that it is already dead without a complete body.  In ancient times, there was no DNA that could determine through genes whose body this part belonged to, and whose body that part belonged to.  Therefore, this cannot be found out at all, and this makes it impossible for them to judge.  It would not be appropriate to just bury him casually.  After all, doing this in ancient times was also very disrespectful to the corpse, and it was not in line with ancient civilization.  "Does anyone have any good ideas?" Li Shimin asked.  Jing Wen thought for a moment and immediately said: "Your Majesty, I have a method, I don't know if it is feasible or not!" "Say it!" Li Shimin said.  Jing Wen immediately said: "Your Majesty, I think these bones can be cremated. Since the bones can no longer be distinguished, they should be cremated. Let them be completely integrated. I think those soldiers can fight against Goguryeo together and die together in the battle.  In the land of Goguryeo, they also had a profound friendship. In this case, we can't tell them apart. It is also in line with the tradition of the army to be cremated and buried together on the battlefield.  "Cremation?" Li Shimin was a little surprised.  This cremation is indeed a good idea, since they can't distinguish the bones.  It might be a good idea to simply unify and cremate the wrongdoers.  After all, these fallen soldiers are not outsiders, they are all comrades in the same military camp.  Even if they had some conflicts during their lives, they were still comrades after death.  No need to distinguish so clearly.  Of course, this is just a compromise method of cremating them together when the bones cannot be identified.  "Then what to do with the ashes of those soldiers? It's not easy to just throw them away, right?" Duan Zhixuan said.  Jing Wen immediately said: "Your Majesty, why not put the ashes of these soldiers in the Zhonghun Temple that our Tang Dynasty has just built, and allocate a special area for resettlement. Then we can enjoy the incense of our Tang Dynasty people for eternity.  In this way, they are not without incense. Not only can they enjoy the sacrifices of their own families, but they can also enjoy the mourning and sacrifices of countless people in the Tang Dynasty. This way they are no longer lonely ghosts. " Jing Wen's fact.  That is to say, I want to have a cremation and a public sacrifice of the head.  In ancient times, cremation was rarely popular, and most were buried.  What's more important is that memorials within individual families are popular, and public memorials are not popular.  So Jing Wen now wants to use the bones of these fallen soldiers of the Sui Dynasty to start proposing two new concepts, namely cremation and public sacrifice.  Although it is impossible in a short time to change everyone's thinking and let everyone accept cremation and public sacrifice, at least it has made a start, and then there will be people who will support it later.  Everything in ancient times relied on precedents. If Jing Wen could create a precedent at this time, then those who would support him in later generations would?Those who conduct cremations and public sacrifices can also find precedents. This is a very good thing.  "Let these Sui Dynasty soldiers enter the Loyal Soul Shrine of the Tang Dynasty?" Duan Zhixuan was a little confused.  "General Duan, in fact, there is nothing wrong with the Sui Dynasty soldiers entering our Tang Dynasty. Our Datang Dynasty inherits the tradition of the former Sui Dynasty, so there is nothing wrong with accepting these Sui Dynasty soldiers. In addition, we are all  The Han people also worked hard to regain our territory and sacrificed their lives. Then didn¡¯t our Tang Dynasty inherit their legacy and continue to conquer Goguryeo? So our Tang Dynasty¡¯s Zhonghun Temple accepted them?  There is no problem. After all, everyone is our Central Plains Han army, and they all fought and died for the country and the nation. In addition, they did not die to resist the founding of our country, the Tang Dynasty, and they have no hatred towards our Datang Dynasty, so let them.  There is no problem in entering Zhonghun Temple!" Jing Wen said.  Duan Zhixuan still wanted to say something wrong, but Li Shimin said: "Okay, I have decided to let these former Sui soldiers enter the Loyal Soul Temple of the Tang Dynasty, so that they can enjoy the incense and sacrifices of the people of the Tang Dynasty for eternity. They also  They didn't die to prevent the founding of our country, so they have no hatred towards our country. They are considered people who sacrificed their lives to regain our territory in the Central Plains. Naturally, they can enter the Zhonghun Temple of our country. Duan Aiqing, you are right.  It¡¯s a bit narrow.¡± ¡°I accept the order!¡± Duan Zhixuan said.  Since Li Shimin has said so, if Duan Zhixuan continues to insist, wouldn't it mean that he is too "narrow-minded"?  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature. The novels will be better and updated faster!
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