We often see in film and television dramas that those heinous bad guys are taken into custody by the yamen, and finally sentenced to be beheaded after the autumn. In fact, in the real ancient China, the treatment of prisoners was not so casual, but it was necessary to carefully study the crimes of criminals after layers of reporting, and if they really should be killed, such punishments would be imposed. When it comes to killing prisoners, they are not all beheaded after the autumn, and if the criminals commit the major crime of treason, they may be found and beheaded on the spot. However, the scenes in film and television dramas are not without merit, such as the guillotine meal for the beheading person who asks for it, which really exists in history.
The guillotine first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period of Our Country, when king Chu Zhuang quelled a rebellion, and he prepared to kill all the people in the rebellious family. However, the king of ChuZhuang, who killed so many people at once, was also afraid of provoking the wrath of the people, so he entertained all the members of this rebellion with good food and drink, and then sent them to the execution ground, and this was only to let other families see their benevolence, so that these families would not also rebel. And this is also the earliest sense of the severed head meal, and the later death row prisoner will also be well entertained when he is killed, and he will eat something that he has not eaten even in his life.
Of course, although the guillotine rice does have good ingredients for big fish and big meat, there is one thing that makes it difficult for prisoners to swallow. It turned out that the severed head meal of these prisoners also contained a piece of raw meat, and people ate cooked food, and raw meat was naturally difficult to swallow. It is also a little difficult to understand this, after all, it is said that the guillotine is the best thing for the prisoners to eat before they die, and since it is to be eaten well, why should they take a piece of raw meat to beat people?
It turned out that the raw meat in the bowl before the prisoner was killed was not for the prisoners to eat, but its role was for the prisoners after death. But after death, everything is not taken, and the prisoner who puts a piece of raw meat after death has no chance to cook it. In fact, just think carefully about the superstitious ideas of ancient China to understand such an approach. As we all know in ancient China, we all believed in gods and ghosts, and believed that after death, people will become souls and then go to Hades, and the raw meat in the severed head meal is for prisoners to use in Hades.
Legend has it that when the ghosts reach the underworld, they need to pass through the Meng Po Bridge, and Meng Po has a vicious dog, if there is no such piece of raw meat to feed to this evil dog, then the souls of these prisoners will be tortured by the evil dog. Although these people were not very good people before they were born, the kindness of the ancients of our country did not want them to suffer such pain after death. So he gave each death row prisoner a piece of raw meat as a severed head meal, and when he met the dog, he could feed it so that he could drink Meng Po soup safely to reincarnate.
Of course, in our current view, this is a feudal superstition. However, from the original thinking, killing the wicked is also for the sake of their death, does not it also reflect the benevolent side of the ancient system of our country? Although the prisoners were all evil, they also had deep-rooted feudal ideas. Seeing the severed head rice of big fish and meat may not feel any gratitude, but seeing this bloody raw meat will be grateful to Dade. If there is a prisoner who did not see this piece of raw meat before he died, I am afraid that he would be very angry when he died, right?
Another theory of raw meat in the severed head meal is that local officials deliberately withheld money when killing criminals, and only then put a piece of raw meat on it. It should be known that the standard of guillotine rice was very high in ancient times, and the conversion of a meal into today's yuan is nearly eight hundred yuan. So much money is only for a dying person to eat a meal, naturally some officials are unwilling, so they exchanged some of the food for a piece of raw meat, in order to save some of the money into their own pockets. But even so, the prisoner can eat a full meal, after all, the deceased is the eldest.
This is why raw meat was released in the severed head meal before the ancient prisoner asked for beheading. No matter what kind of possibility, our country in ancient times was very respectful of the dying people, and also hope that they can have a good afterlife after death, and the guillotine may also be the best wish for their future life.