<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > author: Ardor. </h1>
Ban Gu once said: "A hundred men are indignant, it is better to be a tyrant!" This is a praise for Ti Ling, and the strength is not at all lost to Mulan's "Who said that women are inferior to men"! With filial piety, Ti Hao not only saved his father, but also led to a significant legal reform in Chinese history, the abolition of corporal punishment.
This story, "History of Bian Quecang Gongli Biography" is recorded as follows:
In the four years of Emperor Wen's reign, people wrote to Chun Yu to be bribed, and the crime was passed on as a punishment, and chang'an in the west. There are five daughters, and they cry with them. Angered, scolding: "If you give birth to a son and do not give birth to a man, there is no messenger in a hurry!" "So the young girl Ti haunted her father's words, but followed her father's west of Chang'an.
The book says: "The concubine father is an official, Qi Zhong calls him honest and peaceful, and now he sits in the law and is punished, and the concubine is in pain and the deceased cannot be revived, and the torturer cannot be renewed, although he wants to reform himself, his way is inexplicable, and he will not be able to get it in the end." The concubines wished to become official concubines in order to atone for their father's sins and to make them rehabilitate. ”
Book smell, on the sad meaning, this year is the removal of meat criminal law.
This narrative is actually very straightforward:
Someone accused Chun Yuyi of accepting bribes, he was going to be escorted to Chang'an to be tortured, his daughters cried behind the car, he scolded his daughters for being useless, saying that giving birth to a daughter was not as good as a man.
The youngest daughter, Ti Qian, was very sad to hear this and followed her all the way to Chang'an.
She wrote to the emperor that her father was a clean official but would be tortured, and she was very sad, because if a person died, he could not be resurrected, and if he was punished, he could not grow new limbs. She begged herself to be an official maid to atone for her father's sins and give him a chance to reform himself.
In fact, she did not advocate defending her father's grievances, but she wanted to sell herself to save her father--it was a very hard thing to be an official maid, but Emperor Han Wendi not only returned his freedom and innocence, did not let her be an official maid, but also issued a decree abolishing corporal punishment.
Such a major reform in the history of China's legal system has just happened, and the credit has been remembered by posterity on Ti Qian, who is actually the luckiest beneficiary.
Before Emperor Wen reformed the decree, he had a very profound reflection, saying that when Yao Shun was in charge, whoever committed a crime only needed to add a mark to his clothes, and that person would feel ashamed. But he wanted to use torture to cure it, because his virtue was not obvious.
These words show that Emperor Wen was originally a benevolent prince, and Ti Qian's words only aroused his compassion and determination to reform. He issued a decree, the core of which was, in short, to replace the execution with a flogging, to cut off the left toe, and to cut off the right toe instead of abandoning the city.
However, the following story is not so satisfactory: the punishment prescribed by law is lighter, and the victims are "more deadly". If history always has to enlighten people, you may find that Ti Qian's contribution lies in the fact that she touched people's hearts with filial piety and called for good law with her conscience.
However, good law is not so easy to get good governance.
I told the story here, in fact, to a friend, when she accidentally mentioned the allusion to Ti Qian's rescue of her father, in a legal group I belonged to, several friends in the group were arguing about the same topic: How to get good governance in good law?
They were talking about the Domestic Violence Act, and the topic was raised by "Ram's death."
Ram suffered domestic violence for a long time before his death, and has been reclusive for the sake of his young children. Finally, she couldn't stand the divorce, but she still couldn't escape the fate - she was poured with gasoline, severely burned, and died. “
The Anti-Domestic Violence Law is complete, but is it useful?
A friend asked how much people hoped that such a topic would be brought up for the first time, and how much they hoped that the law could exert a more active force to avoid such tragedies.
Like Ti Qian, Ram is also a woman who is touched by filial piety.
Thinking that she was poured with gasoline and the knife was put to her neck, she saw her father who rushed over and shouted: "Daddy run...";
Thinking that she was burned to death, and saying to her father in the ambulance, "I am dead, my sister raised you...", my eyes were wet with tears again and again.
Ram, which link in this journey of life can save you?
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"If it doesn't work, it's actually up to us, the judiciary, to ask ourselves."
Another friend who picked up that she was a civil judge said:
"Including me, I am also asking myself: How many times have I supported the victim's domestic violence claims in divorce cases?"
Watching their chat, I was suddenly very moved. Looking back at that period of history, after Emperor Jing ascended the throne, he twice issued an edict to reduce the number of floggings and stipulate the specifications of torture equipment to be tortured, etc., in order to achieve the purpose of the law.
However, we do not know that the key to whether the law can be implemented well is not how detailed the law is, but in the conscience of people and law enforcers.
The story of Ti Hao's rescue of his father has come to this day, and what is more worthy of deep consideration is actually the legal issue behind it, which reminds every judicial person: you are not only handling a case, but also the lives of others.