Refers to a surrender ceremony of Jin State at that time. The sheep-hugging ceremony requires the captives to be naked, dressed in sheepskin, tied around their necks, and led away like sheep, which also means being slaughtered like sheep.

Breastfeeding ceremony: This ceremony is also a ceremony to honor prisoners. Compared with women who are raped at night and eaten directly as rations during the day, breastfeeding is a heavier ceremony. Prisoners need to put on the clothes of Jin people and go to Agu Temple in the Jin Dynasty to lead the sheep.

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1, Jingkang Rebellion, Song Huizong Evonne was escorted by nomads from the lunar calendar in April, and it was still very cold in the north. Song Qinzong, Zheng and Zhu are all very thin, and they are often too cold to sleep at night. At that time, Empress Zhu was 26 years old, young and beautiful, and was often molested by nomads from afar. Wang Wanrong, the beloved princess, was also forcibly taken away by the nomads from Beijing.

2. Finally, when Song Huizong and others arrived at Huining House, the capital of the Jin Dynasty, and Song Huizong's prisoners arrived at Huining House, the Jin people held a ceremony to offer prisoners. He ordered the second emperor, the empresses, the royal family, the king, the Xu, and the princess to put on the clothes worn by Jin people, with a headscarf on their heads and sheepskin on their upper bodies, and to hold a "sheep-holding ceremony" in the Akuta Temple in the Jin Dynasty.

3. The "sheep-hugging ceremony" was a great insult to the defeated soldiers in Song Jun at that time, so people often committed suicide because of this humiliation.

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