Why did the ancients take off their shoes and put them away before committing suicide by jumping into the river?

Shoes have different meanings for ancient people. At that time, the ancient labor production was not so perfect. Shoes are their personal symbolic existence. Furthermore, shoes are important props for ancient divination. In feudal society, ancient people were superstitious. At that time, they used shoes to calculate divination to predict their own good or bad luck.

Speaking of which, shoes are still very important to ancient people, and another is that taking off shoes is not an infarction. In ancient times, people paid great attention to inheritance, and there was another kind that paid more attention to personal honor and integrity. If the ancients committed suicide by wearing shoes at that time, it was not allowed by the family in the end. After his death, he can't enter his ancestral temple.

Taking off your shoes and committing suicide can ensure that you finally return to the ancestral temple and get the recognition of your family. It can be seen that the suicide mode of taking off shoes at that time still attracted the attention of the ancients. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period, we are familiar with Qu Yuan. He jumped into the river at that time, and then someone found his shoes dropped by the river. And there are such examples in the Han Dynasty, such as Liu in the Han Dynasty. When she threw herself into the river, she left her shoes by the river.

For this matter, they want to take off their shoes and prove that they committed suicide. No one persecuted them in order to better express their feelings and save their relatives time in reporting to the authorities. It's like sending a signal to his family that he committed suicide and has nothing to do with others. In ancient times, suicide was used to show that one's attitude was respected.