In ancient laws, ancient punishment is one of the important components. Without punishment, the disciplinary effect of the law cannot be achieved. The reasons for the development and change of the penalty system are influenced by many factors, showing different characteristics in different times, and the authorities in each era also have their own measures.
With the changes of the times, some ancient punishments appear constantly? Fashion? The way of punishment, the so-called ancient punishment? Kick your hips? It is one of the new ways of punishment. Whip? .
As early as the Qin dynasty, which was dominated by legalist thought, the legal system construction was very strict, so the punishment method of criminal law in Qin dynasty was also extremely harsh. Take Dakaichuang as an example, there are more than a dozen punishments, such as beheading, abandoning the market, beheading and smashing cars. Torture such as palace, excision and ink is also used constantly.
In the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty abolished corporal punishment such as castration and gouging, and replaced torture such as flogging with flogging, making flogging an important punishment in the Han Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, a decree was made to uniformly stipulate the instruments of torture used for flogging, and it was also stipulated that the part of the flogged person should be the buttocks, and the executioner should not be replaced during execution.
Later, the southern dynasties came to Liang Wudi? Whip? Substitution? Whipping? Officially included in the criminal code, making it one of the statutory punishments, in fact, flogging is almost the same as flogging, mainly spanking. Staff? This is made in Shengjing. In the Sui Dynasty, flogging became one of the five punishments, which was used until the Qing Dynasty.
Often mentioned in many literary and historical novels and movies? Zhang Ting? . Zhang Ting also belongs to cudgel punishment, just because it is mainly used to punish court officials, so it is generally ordered by the emperor. Of course, there are also many people in power in the harem, such as the empress dowager, empress and courtiers, who are punished by court ministers. The place of punishment is mostly in the imperial court, and the punishment is directed by eunuchs, so it belongs to a special kind of stick punishment.
Zhang Ting first appeared in the Han Dynasty, but in the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang institutionalized it and formed a set of relatively fixed procedures.
Thus, in the history of China for thousands of years, flogging? It has always been loved and favored by ancient criminal law, and it is also the longest used punishment.
As for the sentence we often hear in film and television dramas? Somebody, pull him out and hit the board! ? What you hit here with the board is the hip and the thigh root below the hip, which is in the ancient punishment? Whip? Yes Then why has it been cited as one of the main punishments since the Han Dynasty? Whipping? , that is? Whip? If you don't hit other parts, why only hit the buttocks?
First, in many other punishment measures, there is no fixed position to fight, which leads to the torturers either deliberately being merciful and avoiding heavy punishment, or hitting people hard or killing them.
In the Tang Dynasty, there was a great breakthrough in the study of human meridians in medicine. Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, learned that most of the main meridians and acupoints of the human body are distributed in the chest and back. If these parts are severely punished, the victims will be easily injured, disabled or even killed. In contrast, there are far fewer important acupoints on the buttocks, and the buttocks are rich in fat, so sitting and lying can bear more than half of the weight. Therefore,
So Emperor Taizong was right about punishment? Whip? The implementation of the law has set a rule that prisoners are not allowed to hit the chest and back, taking the buttocks as the punishment part, and the punishment method of spanking in court has also been inherited.
Secondly, the hip, as it was called in ancient times, is a part that people will be ashamed of when they mention it. People have been educated since ancient times? Knowing shame and courtesy? .
Therefore, the conservative ancients paid more attention to etiquette and chastity, and when executing the rod punishment, they often had to pull open the clothes covered by the lower body, which made the buttocks more tortured when they were slapped. In the eyes of the ancients, being stripped naked to cover up your shame and being spanked with a stick is equivalent to hitting your face. It is a shameful thing, and it is more painful than heartache. Moreover, the execution of this punishment can also produce good punishment effect.