In ancient times, there were many punishments for criminals, among which there were many kinds of torture, not only physical punishment, but also mental, in the Western Han Dynasty, the types of punishments at that time were still relatively single, and the great works were all to cause harm to the body of the punished, roughly there were several kinds of torture such as ink, slashing, slashing, palace, and Dapi. During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, because Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty could not bear to see such cruel punishments, he abandoned all these tortures and used some more gentle methods from then on. In ancient times, there was a kind of punishment in which a female prisoner would rather die than a male prisoner would pay for it.
In the following dynasties, there were gradually five feudal punishments of "flogging, rod, apprenticeship, flow, and death", which were much more gentle than the previous punishments, among which the second punishment of flogging was the lightest, flogging was whipping, and the cane punishment was beating with a stick. Although the former is painful, it does not cause much damage to the body, and the cane punishment can be light or heavy, depending on whether the person who beats the board is heavy, so this board is very knowledgeable. And many female prisoners are not willing to be punished even if they die, but male prisoners are eager to be punished with this cane, what is going on?
In ancient times, people spanked people, not only to cause physical harm, but more of a humiliation to the prisoner. The spanking is because there is a lot of meat in this place, and it doesn't hurt the muscles and bones, and the second is in the old society that pays attention to etiquette, righteousness and shame, which is a great humiliation, for example, the ancient emperor liked to beat the minister's board.
For male prisoners, this is the lightest punishment, but for women, it is more painful than death. Because in ancient times, people had to take off their pants when they gave people boards, and sometimes some special events happened. It is recorded that in ancient times, there was a case of fornication between a woman and another person in Henan in the Qing Dynasty, and the woman involved not only did not repent, but also instigated the adulterer to ask her husband for silver. The magistrate received a report, arrested the person, pulled off her whole body clothes, and then hit the board, and finally the woman was watched by many people, after the end, the parents put on clothes for their daughter, but were snatched away by the onlookers, and finally the woman could only choose to commit suicide by jumping into the river.
But the men are very willing to suffer this seemingly lightest punishment, and they will also spend money to buy the officials who beat the board and let them put down the water, these officials beat more times, and naturally they can control the proportions, and the people who know how to beat look like their skin is open but do not hurt their muscles and bones, and those who know how to beat can not see the scars on the outside, but they can produce internal injuries. Therefore, whether to beat lightly or heavily is completely up to the officials, which makes many prisoners have to bribe the officials even if they go to borrow money, and if they make others unhappy, then they will be guilty.
Many countries still retain the flogging of the five punishments, but now they do not use boards, but rattan whips, the most famous of which is the caning in Singapore. In short, these punishments in ancient times were really too cruel compared to modern times, and I really can't imagine how people at that time survived in prison after committing crimes.