Nowadays, the phenomenon of fingerprint recognition is common, whether it is door locks, mobile phone payment, commuting punching, etc., fingerprints will be used; when signing a contract, fingerprints are also required. But in ancient times, when there were no computers, fingerprint recognition did not seem to exist, so why should prisoners be detained according to fingerprints?
The wisdom of the ancients is infinite, and the imagination of the ancients is rich, which is one of the reasons for the emergence of many vivid myths and legends, the ancients also have a high curiosity about everything, and have conducted in-depth research on this, and as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, people have found that everyone's fingerprints are not the same.
However, people first studied fingerprints in order to see the appearance, which has been prevalent more than 3,000 years ago, leaving behind the saying that "one snail is poor, two snails are rich, nine snails and ten snails enjoy qingfu". At that time, people divided fingerprints into two categories: "snail" and "ji", "snail" that is, fingerprints are swirling, and "ji" is flow-like.
More research, you will naturally see more things, fingerprint repetition rate is very small, about one in 15 billion, can be called "human identity card", usually the baby at 4 months, the formation of fingerprints, and fingerprints for life.
According to the "Zhou Li Di Guan Si Shi" "end litigation with a letter of quality", Han ZhengXuan's note: "The quality agent is said to be two books and one book and one piece and the other, if you write it now." The "First Handbook" refers to the document that uses the fingerprint as proof. In the Qin Dynasty, fingerprints were gradually used to solve cases, according to the "Fengzhen Style - Cave Thief": "There are knees, handwriting, knees, and hands in the inner and outer parts of the cave. ”
In the Tang Dynasty, the identification technology of fingerprints gradually matured, and from the Tang Dynasty cultural relics unearthed so far, fingerprints and palm prints were basically present on documents such as deeds, documents, and wills.
A loan deed from the early Tang Dynasty also reads: "Officials have political laws and regulations, and people follow private deeds." Two and a deed, drawn as a letter. Among them, "painting the finger is a letter" and related to fingerprints, both the borrower and the lender and the witness must draw three knuckles on the index finger when signing the contract, which is established as a table contract, so it is also called "drawing finger coupon".
And this aspect is also related to the use of paper, the Western Han Dynasty, people began to study how to make paper, the Eastern Han Dynasty Guiyang County people Cai Lun will be promoted papermaking, and then to the Wei and Jin Southern and Northern Dynasties period, paper has been widely used, in the Jin Dynasty, paper replaced the Simple became the main writing material.
On the other hand, in ancient times, a small number of literate people were still literate, and the people were illiterate, considering that some people could not even write their own names, so it was much more convenient to draw and pledge.
It is worth mentioning that the German scholar Robert Heindel said in his "Fingerprint Identification" that the first person in the world to propose fingerprint recognition was Jia Gongyan, a Chinese Tang Dynasty man, who was a very learned person during the Tang Dynasty.
By the time of the Song Dynasty, fingerprints were no longer a rare thing for everyone, and Song Ci, who was revered as the originator of forensic science in the world, elaborated in the "Collection of Washed Injustices" how to use fingerprints to solve cases, fingerprints were used in a large number of cases, but also because the official government of the Southern Song Dynasty put evidence in the first place when tracing the truth of the case.
In addition to Song Ci, the governor of the government Yuan Dai is also an expert in fingerprint recognition, in one of the cases he handled, someone had made a fake fingerprint, because the person who pressed the fingerprint has died, there is no other right, but Yuan Dai started from the age, analyzed some characteristics of the fingerprint, and finally found that it was forged, and returned the victim a justice.
In addition, in the "Midou Book", the detailed identity information of each soldier was recorded, and their fingerprints were pressed. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the information of the general public was also registered, and according to their own fingerprints, they were managed by the relevant responsible agencies.
It can be seen that from the initial look, to the system's information recording, fingerprints also have a long history, and enduring, because it is innate, and it is difficult to forge, and the ancients also considered that some cunning people cut off their fingers, evading fingerprint identification, so there are also palm paintings, foot paintings.
Although "the Tao is one foot high, the devil is one foot high", but there are causes, one thing drops one thing, there is always a way to solve, but also let future generations lament the wisdom of the ancestors, and we also learned a lot of experience from the ancient methods of doing things.
Nowadays, fingerprint recognition technology, like scientific and technological products, can be seen everywhere in our lives, but relevant experts have also issued a kind reminder, and the professor of the National Institute of Informatics in Japan reminds netizens that when taking pictures, they are likely to be stolen.
The history of the computer development so far is not very long, only a short hundred years, but now it accounts for a large part of people's lives, and its privacy and security are also what people have been paying attention to, because the Internet is developing rapidly, people also like to publish some of their own information on social platforms, but the result is used by ill-intentioned people.
However, it is impossible for people to give up the Internet and the application of fingerprint recognition technology, but people are also gradually pursuing a convenient and safe lifestyle, and I believe that these hidden dangers will also be solved.