i especially like the myth that worker’s bones were used as the base of the wall… lol how much of an unhinged sinophobe you gotta be to even contemplate that
This one is actually debunked oficially, but still shows up a lot in the internet.
And it wasn’t entirely baseless btw, though that bone crap was obvious nonsense. In ancient times both in Europe, Asia and Africa, common practice was to offer a human sacrifice before something very important. Building important buildings counted in that, the sactifices bodies were often interred in the foundations so that their spirits guard the building or something like that.
In China of Spring and Autumn, Warring States and Qin era it was slowly disappearing (roughly at the same time as in Mediterranean basin) but still happened occasionally. We don’t know if that did happened to either earlier fragments or to the Qin Great Wall, but it would be prime candidate.
i especially like the myth that worker’s bones were used as the base of the wall… lol how much of an unhinged sinophobe you gotta be to even contemplate that
This one is actually debunked oficially, but still shows up a lot in the internet.
And it wasn’t entirely baseless btw, though that bone crap was obvious nonsense. In ancient times both in Europe, Asia and Africa, common practice was to offer a human sacrifice before something very important. Building important buildings counted in that, the sactifices bodies were often interred in the foundations so that their spirits guard the building or something like that.
In China of Spring and Autumn, Warring States and Qin era it was slowly disappearing (roughly at the same time as in Mediterranean basin) but still happened occasionally. We don’t know if that did happened to either earlier fragments or to the Qin Great Wall, but it would be prime candidate.