The Canggong in the "Biography of Bian Quecang Gonglie" is the administrator of the granary of the capital of Qi, a Linzi person, whose name is Chun Yuyi. The reason why he was co-passed on with Bian Que was because Sima Qian believed that Bian Que was the ancestor of medicine, and Canggong was the closest to him and passed on his medical skills. But Chun Yuyi's reputation is far less than That of Bian Que, and even worse than his daughter. His daughter is the filial daughter of Tí yíng (Ti Qian Nu, Save Father) in the New Three Character Sutra. But her feat of saving her father, merely preached as filial piety, was too narrow.
Chun Yuyi liked medicine when he was young, and worshiped Yang Qing as his teacher. Yang Qing was more than seventy years old and had no sons, so he chose Chun Yuyi as his heir, gave him medical books such as the Yellow Emperor's Inner Classic, Bian Que's "Pulse Book", and taught him the ultimate study of guan color diagnosis. This set of medical techniques can predict the life and death of patients, determine difficult diseases, and judge whether they can be treated.
After three years of study, Chun Yuyi will be able to cure people's diseases, predict life and death, and fulfill many things. After becoming famous, Chun Yuyi was uneasy about treating people, but gave up his family and left his business to travel around with the princes, causing dissatisfaction among the patients' families. In the fourth year of Emperor Wen of Han (176 BC), someone wrote to the imperial court accusing him of being sent to Chang'an to be subjected to corporal punishment according to the criminal law.
Chun Yuyi has five daughters, and when the prison car starts, the daughters follow behind and cry, very reluctant and powerless.
Chun Yuyi was very angry and scolded:
"If you give birth to a child and do not give birth to a man, there is no messenger in a hurry!"
Child, means "child"; emergency, partial meaning, refers to emergency.
Chun Yuyi hated that he had given birth to five daughters, no boys, and could not help at the critical time. Also annoyed that the five daughters will only cry and cry to annoy the dead.
The youngest daughter, Ti Qian, was very sentimental when she heard her father's words, so she followed her father's prison cart and traveled west to Chang'an.
Ti, original meaning: red yellow, dan yellow; Extension: orange-red silk fabric; Haunting, the original meaning: whirlwind winding.
The moral of Ti Qian is that a woman without talent is virtuous, and it is enough to do the needlework that women need at home. But Ti Hao did not think so, and when his father was not at home, he secretly read and wrote a good article with his sisters.
Ti Hao followed his father's prison cart and took care of his father along the way, and became familiar with the officials who were released, and learned from them the knowledge of punishment in the Han Dynasty. After arriving in Chang'an, her petition for her father's intercession was also brewed. In her book, she wrote:
"The concubine father is an official, and Qi Zhong calls him incorruptible, and now he sits in the law and is punished."
Concubines who cut pain to the dead cannot be revived, and those who are tortured cannot be renewed, although they want to reform themselves, their way is inexplicable, and they cannot be obtained in the end.
Concubines were originally made into official concubines to atone for their father's punishment, so that they could be rehabilitated. "
As the youngest of the five daughters, she will not be too old, and she will be more than ten years old. But how many big husbands have been ashamed of the petitions she has written?
In the first sentence, my father was an official of the imperial court, and the people of Qi praised his honesty and fairness, and now he has been sentenced for breaking the law.
Define the "essence" of the father, the essence is not bad. Although the offender is sentenced, it is possible to "reform himself."
Here, Ti Qian's cleverness lies in not defending his father's innocence. Because in the previous narrative, Sima Qian did not say that Chun Yuyi was innocent, and he was quite critical of his behavior. Moreover, the commoners pleaded innocent to the court, which was to accuse the court of guilt. So, pleading not guilty won't work, and TiChen avoids that.
Second sentence: cut, real, real; pain, lament. This sentence is the reason for the request:
I truly deplore that those who are executed cannot be reborn, and that those who have been tortured and maimed cannot be recovered. Even if you want to reform yourself, there is no way to do it, and in the end you can't do it.
This sentence questions the punishment at that time: the purpose of the punishment should be to make the offenders rehabilitate, but their heads are cut off, their bodies are crippled, and the road to rehabilitation is blocked.
The last sentence: I would rather not enter the government as a slave to atone for my father's sins and give him a chance to reform himself.
The father's sinful daughter came to pay it back. She did not say that her father was old and frail, and did not excuse him, but hoped that his father would have a chance to change.
The short petition is sincere and rational, clear and concise. Emperor Wen of Han read Ti Qian's letter and graciously pardoned Chun Yuyi with compassion.
Books and smells, on the sad meaning, in this year also in addition to meat criminal law.
Emperor Wen of Han also understood Ti Hao's questioning of punishment and abolished corporal punishment in this year.
Corporal punishment is also known as bodily punishment. Penalties for the perpetrator who mutilates his limbs or mutilates the function of his skin or organs. There are types of beheading (foot cutting), beheading (nose cutting), ink punishment (tarnishing, tattooing on the face, stained black), palace punishment (castrating male reproductive organs, destroying female reproductive function) and so on. The tortured bear not only the extreme pain of the execution, but also the shame of a lifetime. Because of its strong intimidation power, it was widely used by rulers.
Corporal punishment originated in clan society and is recorded in xia and shang zhou. It was widely used during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the number of criminal names in the Qin Dynasty increased.
Corporal punishment has made many heroes wash their faces with tears: Sun Bing was tortured for being persecuted by Pang Juan, and his real name was not left. The famous general Yingbu of the early Han Dynasty was deposed by qin law, also known as Tuobu. They hated corporal punishment at the time of their torture, but they could do nothing about it.
Emperor Wen of Han was able to abolish the barbaric corporal punishment that had been inherited for thousands of years, which could not but be said to have taken a big step forward for civilization. And the driver of this progress is actually a little girl Ti Ling.
Sima Qian must have been concerned when he wrote this history, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty resumed part of the corporal punishment, and the palace punishment was one of them, and Sima Qian was his victim. Sima Qian praised "Ti Qiantong ruler, the father has hou Ning." But he could not be spared the sword and saw and fell into a long period of sorrow and sorrow.