Hunting Corpses

In the thirty-sixth year of Guangxu, Gengxu. There is a big epidemic at the end of the year, and people eat each other. These few figures in "Chronicles of the Northern Qing Dynasty" are like a tombstone soaked in blood, standing quietly at a deserted crossing in the long river of history. For later generations of historians, this was just an inconspicuous record among the countless disaster records after Emperor Xuantong ascended the throne. It was quickly buried among the reports of floods, locust plagues and troubles in the Southern Ming Dynasty.