The ancients threw themselves into the river. Why do they take off their shoes before jumping into the river?

Friends who love watching TV series must have found out that in costume dramas, all men and women who jump into the river will leave their shoes, but they will commit suicide. Why did they leave their shoes? Isn't this unnecessary? In fact, Japan also has this kind of record. This suicide method was initiated by Qu Yuan, and later generations followed suit. Take off your shoes even if you throw a well, and the reason for doing so is nothing more than several reasons:

First of all: taking shoes as a suicide note means that you were not killed, but committed suicide.

In ancient times, the ancients still paid more attention to their own beliefs. Living can't harm others, and sometimes it can't bring trouble to others. For example, Qu Yuan committed suicide because he didn't want to see his country so degenerate, but he left his shoes behind to let the world know that he died to wake up those who went with the flow. Many women in later generations also ended their lives in this way, in order not to let others think it was murder, to leave their shoes, to express their desire for love and to break through this decadent marriage system.

Secondly, this is related to the thinking of the ancients, who used shoes as a divination tool.

Leave the shoes in the river, and the fortune teller can calculate whether the owner of the shoes is dead or alive, or judge the position of people according to the orientation of the shoes. It is also said that throwing shoes into the river, where the shoes float, is the last position of people. This is actually a psychological comfort that the family can't find the body. Over time, this idea was accepted by everyone, which led to the idea of throwing shoes into the river.

Finally: you can save your reputation. After all, there are rules in ancient ancestral temples.

Most of the ancients believed that sudden death or murder was caused by many bad things during their lifetime, so their ancestral temples and shrines generally did not allow such dead people to enter. So, if you were in ancient times, even if you wanted to commit suicide, you would still think about your reputation, otherwise people around you wouldn't know how you died. All kinds of speculations, maybe if you think about it, you won't throw yourself into the river.

These three points are clearly explained now, but the closer to modern times, the more people guess. Many netizens said that it was possible that they had cramped their legs and drowned while taking a bath in summer. It was possible that these women pretended to be double-hearted in order to elope with their lovers. It was possible that I jumped into the river here. Let's go somewhere else. What's more, it is said that the government or people who are worried are after us, creating the illusion of suicide. Actually, it's true. Wang Yangming, a famous psychologist, is like this. Him and him. Finally, the three men took off their shoes and jumped into the river. The person who caught up thought he was drowned. When they went back to leave, Wang Yangming had already swam to the other side.

In fact, among so many explanations, I think the best explanation is that the ancients wanted to express a kind of integrity that would rather die than follow the crowd or be at the mercy of others.