This is not something I’ve seen happen to a wiki page before
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_China#Cannibalism_as_medicine
Oh— how strange
Since the middle Tang Dynasty, some devoted sons have been said to cut out their thighs to let their sick parents eat them. Despite banning the practice several times, the sons were classified as "dutiful sons"
In 2003, the Guangdong Provincial Public Security Bureau sought to block reports that some restaurants in the southern province had cooked dead babies in soups and sold the food to businessmen from Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Cannibalism is also a very common motif in Chinese literature. The famous writer Lu Xun penned a story the Diary of a Madman in which a madman gradually became convinced that the history of Chinese civilisation could be summarised in two words, "eat people"
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