In TV dramas, people who commit capital crimes are often beheaded at three o'clock in the afternoon, or executed after the autumn, so why should this time choose three o'clock in the afternoon or after the autumn? What's so special about that?
The autumn post-autumn question chopping mentioned here is not after the autumn equinox, but after the autumn, the ancient people pay attention to feng shui, climate, the Confucian master Dong Zhongshu in the middle of the Western Han Dynasty has a good understanding of astronomical geography, he believes that heaven and man are inductive, so he created a superstition called tianren induction, and the autumn post-autumn question chopping is also a theory he created!
There are four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter in a year, Dong Zhongshu believes that spring and summer are the seasons of growth of all things, autumn and winter are the time of withering, and the emperor has four policies of celebrating rewards and punishments, just in autumn and winter corresponding to punishment, it is the season of slaughter.
In this way, the rulers also thought that it was very reasonable, the Han Dynasty stipulated that autumn and winter were suitable for torture and killing, and no killing was allowed after the spring, and during the Tang and Song dynasties, unless the crime was extremely evil, they had to wait until the autumn to be executed, and in the Qing Dynasty, the method of execution after the autumn was also adopted.
Three o'clock in the afternoon is equivalent to 11:43 minutes and 12 seconds at noon, this time the yang is the most abundant, the ancients believed that people have a soul after death, this time execution will prevent death row inmates from becoming ghosts, so that judges and executioners are a kind of protection!
There is another reason, that is, people at three o'clock in the afternoon are in a state of unconsciousness, which can alleviate the pain of the prisoner's death, and what is more, the location will be chosen at the noon gate outside the imperial city, this place is extremely yang, the executioner is the most evil person, so under the pressure of the double time, even the ghost cannot be done after the prisoner dies!
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