The story of Ti Qian's rescue of his father is familiar to many people. Ti Hao is a very important figure in the process of China's legal system. Her father offended the magnates and was unjustly sentenced to corporal punishment, so she wrote to express her feelings, risked her life to speak to the emperor, and lamented the pain of corporal punishment, and was willing to torture her father for the sake of the official maid. Her filial piety touched the emperor, and Emperor Wen of Han not only spared his father, but also abolished corporal punishment.
As a result of this series of lenient and light punishment measures adopted by Emperor Wen of Han, the atmosphere of the whole country changed. The custom of denouncing the privacy of others has changed, and it is a shame to talk about the faults of others. Officials are at ease with political affairs, the people live and work in peace and contentment, their savings gradually increase, and their population gradually increases. Customs and customs are thick, the law is relaxed, and criminal cases are greatly reduced for those suspected of criminal acts, so that only 400 cases are tried in the world. In the words of historians: "There is a tendency to abandon the criminal law." "It cannot but be said that this is a miracle of feudal society, and it is also a promotion of judicial civilization by Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wen of Han abolished corporal punishment, which not only conformed to the people's will, but also preserved more labor for agricultural production, which was conducive to his own rule and in line with the trend of historical development. The young girl Ti Qian asked for her father's life, bravely braved the difficulties, and bravely wrote a statement, providing an opportunity for Emperor Wen of Han to abolish corporal punishment, and eventually contributing to the abolition of corporal punishment. The deeds of Ti Qian's book to save his father were widely praised in history, and the famous historian Ban Gu of the Eastern Han Dynasty once sincerely praised: "A hundred men are indignant, it is better than a Ti Qian!" Another person wrote a poem praising Ti Qian: "Follow your father to Beijing for a hard time, and the letter is intended to be determined; the edict is pardoned for his filial piety, and the corporal punishment is abolished to benefit future generations." ”
![In the Han Dynasty, there was a female Ti Qian to save his father, and in the Ming Dynasty, there was also a male Ti Qian, who did not hesitate to give up the jinshi who was in his hand to save his father[fig]](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACwAAAAAAQABAAACAkQBADs=)