The secret of tongue pressing in ancient times is that most people use copper coins, Cixi used luminous pearls, but why did Wu Zetian use wood?

Wu Zetian used wood to depress her tongue to express repentance. When Wu Zetian was in power, she was tough in dealing with prisoners. She would directly stuff wood into the prisoner's mouth, so the prisoner could not defend himself.

Tongue pressing is a superstitious behavior in ancient times. People in ancient times believed that people would go to the underworld after death, so they had to put something in their mouths so that when they arrived in the underworld, they would not talk nonsense and make the King of Hell angry, and they would suffer less and be reincarnated in a good family in the next life. Reincarnation.

At the same time, tongue depressor also has many uses. When you get to the underworld, if you are hungry, you can eat the food in your mouth directly, or you can bribe the underworld with the food in your mouth, which will make it easier to do things. Some people even say that putting a jade object in the mouth can prevent the corpse from decaying.

In ancient times, "tongue pressing" had the same status in people's hearts as burying people to find feng shui treasures. The richer the family, the more valuable the "tongue pressing" things were, but ordinary people did not have so many Precious objects can only hold rice in your mouth.

Wu Zetian, as the female emperor in Chinese history, only put a piece of wood in her mouth to depress her tongue. This phenomenon puzzled many people. Finally, people discovered the mystery. Wu Zetian did this for repent.

When Wu Zetian was in power, she was extremely strict with prisoners. Not only did she often vent her anger on prisoners, but her punishments were extremely cruel. When she was in a bad mood, prisoners would be very afraid. When she was in power, no one listened to her, so when she saw a prisoner, she would put a piece of wood into the prisoner's mouth to stop him from talking, in order to relieve his anger.

In her later years, Wu Zetian was afraid that her sins would be so serious that she would not have a good outcome in the underworld. So she used wood to "press her tongue" to repent and relieve her psychological pressure.