/r/TraditionalChinese
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Traditional Chinese culture
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As I read through a translation of the Book of Changes without any commentaries (not even the Ten Wings),
I'm really creeped out about demands to sacrifice captives from other states. Human sacrifices?!!!! Asking this seriously if this is really what the text is talking about.
In addition the texts also often includes in the opening description for many hexagram about making a sacrifice as an offering. I'd assume this means something like killing a goat or a cow or some other animals at an altar to a god after making a reading?
So I ask as someone who does engage in I Ching with modern tools (like apps and beginner's boxed kits , etc), were the human sacrifices and animal offerings as described in barebones translations without commentaries (esp without 10 Wings and other early additions), actually done in the past? So were early Chinese dynasties killing animals and even human beings every time they were doing forecasts using the I Ching method?
Were these sacrifices (if they were done as the I Ching translation I'm reading describes) gifts given to gods and goddesses from Chinese religions and mythology such as Guanyin?