"Years and years often serve Huatang feast, children and grandchildren and grandchildren." For the ancient Chinese, prolonging life and grandchildren is the greatest fulfillment of life, and heir is a very important thing for every family. "If you are unfilial, you have no heir." Therefore, the important task of women in ancient times was to give birth to a boy to inherit the honor for her husband's family. This phenomenon was even more serious in the royal family, the emperor's concubines were all honored to give birth to a son, and got status and wealth by virtue of the son. If a woman in ancient times did not give birth to a boy, she would be laughed at and even abused. Therefore, in the ancient society which emphasized boys over girls, giving birth to a boy was the pursuit of every family.
Although in today's society people's minds are much more open than in ancient times, and they have begun to advocate equality between men and women, and boys and girls can be treated the same way in society, but in some of the more remote villages, the idea is still very old-fashioned, and a lot of families are still pursuing the idea of giving birth to a boy, and as long as they haven't given birth to a boy yet, they will keep on getting pregnant until they give birth to a boy. For women, the conception and birth of a child is very exhausting and requires a long period of recuperation, but to keep giving birth to a son and not getting enough rest can cause a lot of damage to the body.
In ancient times, medical conditions were not as perfect as they are now, so the ancient woman's life in childbirth could be said to be a one-in-a-nine, and if she encountered a difficult birth or hemorrhage, it was really a matter of life and death in the sky. And there is no relevant medical equipment to help, doctors are difficult to accurately determine the state of the mother in a timely manner after the birth of the state of the Qing Dynasty woman fainted in childbirth, was mistaken for the death of the burial, after the opening of the coffin after the scene so that people's backs are cold, this is why it, let the author to tell you about it.
One, the ancient difficult to deliver a high death rate
In modern society, the level of economic development continues to improve, science and technology continues to develop, medical technology has gradually tended to improve, so now can be based on the individual circumstances of the pregnant woman to formulate different ways of production, which greatly reduces the maternal mortality rate in the birth. But the ancient medical conditions are extremely simple, and women and the pursuit of many children, so the risk of childbirth in ancient times, the danger is extremely high, almost every birth is in front of the ghost gate to walk through, it can be said that whether or not the success of the birth of a child depends entirely on fate. In ancient times, the high mortality rate, a large part of which is due to the woman's difficult labor.
Because of the immaturity of the medical condition and the lack of medical instruments to observe the condition of the mother at all times, in many cases the doctors were not able to make an accurate judgment of the mother's condition in time. In some cases, the mother's physical exertion during labor can lead to a fainting spell, but the mother-in-law mistakenly believes she has died. There have been cases in history where a woman who was in shock and temporarily out of breath due to a difficult labor was thought to have died in childbirth.
Second, the sight of open coffins is shocking
An archaeological team once found a special ancient tomb of the Qing Dynasty in Heilongjiang, which is about two hundred years old. According to the scale of this ancient tomb we can know that the owner of this tomb should not be an ordinary family, but have an extraordinary status. But it is a pity that the archaeologists found a lot of holes left by the grave robbers during the excavation of the tomb, so except for the coffin in the center of the tomb which was not destroyed, all the valuable things in the tomb were looted.
After the archaeologists opened this coffin, the scene that followed took everyone present by surprise. This coffin is a female skeleton, but in her hand bones can be seen obvious broken, the death is extremely miserable, and there are many obvious scratches in the coffin, as if she was buried alive. What exactly happened to this woman before she was born?
Three, the woman was buried alive in childbirth
With archaeologists to further investigate the study, they found the woman's body and a complete placenta, so they believe that the woman is very likely to be in the birth of a difficult labor, physical strength and thus a moment of fainting shock, not breathing, but responsible for the birth of the birth mother and the doctor did not find in time to the maternal situation of the wrong judgment. But the midwife and the doctor did not find out in time and made a wrong judgment about the condition of the woman in labor, thinking that she had already passed away, so the family was in a hurry to bury the woman.
When the woman awoke from her fainting shock, she realized that she had been buried alive in the coffin, so she kept clawing at the coffin boards in the hope that someone would realize that she was still alive, but no one heard her or rescued her, and she could only suffocate in the darkness of the small coffin in despair.
From this we can see that giving birth to a child in the ancient times when medical equipment was lacking was a very dangerous thing, but ancient women were still unable to get out of the bondage of childbearing, and even if it was dangerous, they still had to work hard to give birth to a boy for their husband's family to pass on their honor. As the old poem says, "At home, you follow your father, when you get married, you follow your husband, and when your husband dies, you follow your son". It is very sad that women in ancient times never had a mind of their own. Nowadays, we are living in a society with equality between men and women, perfect medical facilities, most women can decide whether or not to have children or the number of children they want to have, and there are more complete medical facilities and more professional doctors to escort the birth. But we can't stop there, we have to keep working hard to improve our medical technology so that we can save more lives in the future.