When the epidemic comes, many people will be closed at home, as short as ten days, as long as two or three months, at this time many people will have messy hair and beards too long, the whole feeling is not trim, when the epidemic is unsealed, some people most want to go shopping in the mall, some people most want to go out for a drive, some people will rush to the barber shop for the first time, trim their own messy hair, but in ancient times, haircuts are a kind of punishment, called "catarrhal punishment", do you know why this is the case?
The cognition of the ancients
Many people mention ancient things, will feel that those are feudal ideas, but the idea of this thing is not necessarily bad, but with the changes of the times, people's cognition is different, "raccoach" is a kind of shaving people's beard and hair, is a kind of psychological blow, until the Republic of China period, haircut has always been considered a kind of inferior profession.
The punishment of "tsuji punishment" was mainly popular before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and then it was rarely mentioned that it was not unrelated to the development of Buddhism, the opening chapter of the "Filial Piety Sutra" said that "the body is skinny, the parents are received, do not dare to destroy, the beginning of filial piety", people live in ancient times, "filial piety culture" is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, if anyone does not respect filial piety, it is a loss of virtue, even the emperor can not be filial piety, the Han Jing Emperor is in power, why has been subject to the mother Empress Dou, is because filial piety is related to the stability of the country.
Any ruler, want their rule to be stable, and in ancient times, people generally believed that "the great affairs of the country, in the worship and rong", sacrifice is generally considered to be more important things in everyone's heart, is related to survival, the main object of sacrifice is heaven and earth and ancestors, the reverence for ancestors is related to the filial piety culture that people believe in, "filial piety" The most basic is respect, respect for parents and ancestors, is the beginning of their filial piety.
The punishment of "bladdering"
With the development of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's idea of "deposing a hundred families and respecting Confucianism alone", Confucian culture became the mainstream of society, and the core of Confucian culture was "filial piety and benevolence", in the depths of people's hearts, the understanding of filial piety was deeper, so that "catarrhal punishment" was the same as the Song Dynasty "Golden Seal", so that you walked on the street and everyone knew what kind of punishment you committed, which was the most severe psychological injury and spiritual insult.
The Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms records that "often go out of the army, march through the wheat, make the soldiers undefeated wheat, the offender dies, Taizu Ma tengeng into the wheat, the master book discusses the crime, the main book is the righteousness of spring and autumn, the punishment is not added to the respect, Taizu is lonely as a military commander, can not commit suicide, to self-punishment, because of the sword cut hair to place the ground", Cao Cao cut his hair after he violated the military order, the people and soldiers can recognize and accept, it can be seen that "cutting hair" in people's minds is a very heavy self-punishment.
Cao Cao's approach is tantamount to saying that he is an unfilial person, which may be a kind of blow in the soul, but in the eyes of the soldiers, the Son of Heaven has committed the same crime as the common people, which is a very encouraging practice for the morale of the army, and Cao Cao's hair cutting is only part of the "bladder punishment", which can receive such an effect, if it is the whole of the "raccoon", then in the eyes of the people who watch the punishment, it is simply more insulting than killing, after all, the ancients often said that "a soldier can kill without shame."
Also a contemporary, the Book of Jin records that "Shou Father joined the army for Ma Mo, and Shou Father was cursed by Zhuge Liang, and Shou Father also sat on the beard", Chen Shou's father, as Ma Mo's army, after the defeat of the Battle of Jieting, was implicated by Ma Chen, and was "tortured", that is, cutting off people's hair and beards, and when they went out to see others, this is the person who did something wrong, and his heart must always be pointed out by people.
Changes in thinking
In fact, in the time of the Ming Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Buddhism had already been introduced to Luoyang in the Central Plains, but at that time people generally did not accept Buddhism, and they would also call the monks who shaved their heads as "hair people", and Guan Yu, who lived at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, said in the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" that "Yu Mei bearded hair, so Liang is called hair", Guan Yu is indeed a person with a particularly good beard, so the folk will spread the saying of "hair and hair".
With the passage of the times, after the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the widespread promotion of Buddhism and people's tolerance of foreign ideas, in fact, the heart is not so repulsive to monks shaving, "catarrhal punishment" is rarely included in the main punishment, Zhu Yuanzhang once used "bladder punishment" to punish his son, so that he can restrain himself, and later after the Manchu Qing Entered the Customs, issued a "shaving order" to keep rattails, people at this time the heart is not as resistant as in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
epilogue
In people's lives, men basically have very short hair, everyone will go to the barber shop every other month to receive a semi-"thrush", this is the change of the times, but also the change of people's thinking, many things of the ancients are also to keep pace with the times, but the filial piety culture represented behind the "raccoon", it does also need people to consciously abide by and carry forward, after all, "fatherly kindness and filial piety" and "respect for the old and love the young" society, or everyone likes the harmonious society very much.