In ancient Chinese history, whenever a country was overrun, the invader would complete the annihilation by raising its enemy's national god-of-the-land altar from the ground on a bed of timber, and covering it over to cut off contact with the sky.
當一個國家破滅亡之時，敵國會在其社壇的下面墊著木材，上面加蓋，如此一來，這個國家也就真正地被滅亡了。