1768, thousands of people died in the evocation case of A Qing dynasty. What's the secret behind it?

If this case is superficial, it is actually only the chaos caused by feudal superstition, but the fundamental reason is that people's mental health has been devastated in the whole social environment, which eventually led to such a result.

The case of soul transmission once happened in the heyday of Kanggan. Suddenly one day in Jiangnan, there was a rumor that as long as people wrote down the names and roles of their enemies on paper and then stepped on their shoes, they would die. It can be said that there is no scientific basis at all, and they are rumors, but somehow these rumors caused people's panic at that time.

At that time, people in Jiangnan really thought that people would die if they stepped on the enemy's name, so they exposed each other to protect themselves and sent the enemy to the government. Some people even take the initiative to kill the enemy for their own safety. The case of evocation first occurred in Jiangnan area, but it didn't take long for it to spread all over the country. This case once attracted the great attention of Emperor Qianlong, so the emperor sent many ministers to investigate this matter.

However, because this incident has no scientific basis, it is just a rumor, so even though officials arrested the so-called "prisoners" at that time, they still failed to stop the spread of this rumor. At that time, most people they arrested were innocent. The reason why this case can shake the whole Qing Dynasty is mainly because of its own vigilance. At that time, it can be said that the Qing emperor's accession to the throne was not orthodox, but was won from the Han people. Therefore, they are born with a precautionary attitude towards the Han people. Under this kind of psychology, coupled with the increasingly serious oppression of the people by the government at that time, the people were also worried and extremely insecure.