Punishment has existed since ancient times.
With the continuous improvement of the degree of social civilization and the improvement of the overall quality of the people, the punishment has become more and more humane. At a time when social civilization was extremely developed, the realization of elephant punishment in the era of the Five Emperors of Ancient China was the common goal of mankind as a whole.
Elephant punishment? I only know that philology has hieroglyphs, but have you ever heard of a punishment called elephant punishment?
Some, in the ancient Chinese Shun era, Emperor Shun, in order to transform the world with virtue, did not tolerate the physical punishment of the Chinese people for committing crimes, so he set up elephant punishment. It is to wear clothes that are different from ordinary people to put on prisoners, so that prisoners feel insulted, and to stimulate their sense of shame, so that everyone can find out at a glance that this person is a criminal.
Like what:
1. The criminals who wore the face (face carving, but not a tattoo) asked them to wrap their heads in black cloth, and Han Chuming's general Yingbu had been subjected to the face of the skull. Therefore, it is also called Tuobu in history; lin chong in the Water Margin is matched with Cangzhou, which is already a modified Tuoxing (stabbing the word with a needle to insult its people);
2. The offender who took the sentence of slitting (cutting off his nose) was ordered to wear ochre yellow clothes. Historically, when King Huiwen of Qin was still the crown prince, he was sentenced to Jie Xing (劓邢) for breaking the law, and his crown prince Taifu was tortured on his behalf;
3. The convict who should serve the sentence can only wear half-cut sleeves or one-legged pants, and the criminal who should serve the sentence is circled with black ink on his knee, indicating that he should be sentenced to death. During the Warring States period, Sun Boling suffered from the patella and was removed from the patella, so he was called Sun Bing by posterity;
(4) A criminal who is supposed to serve a large punishment can only wear a collarless shirt for the rest of his life to prove that his head has been cut off;
5. The convict serving the palace sentence shall mark the corresponding part of his clothes with black ink to prove that he has been sentenced by the palace. Sima Qian, the author of the historical record, was tortured by Emperor Wu of Han for bluntly saying a few fair words on behalf of Li Ling. Sima Qian wrote in the Book of Baoren'an: "Therefore, the misfortune is not to be ashamed of profit, the sorrow is not to be sad, and the deeds are not ugly than the insults, and the criticism is greater than the palace punishment." The remnants of the punishment are incomparable, not one lifetime, and they have never been far away. "It's a pain in the liver, and you can read it when you have a chance."
Therefore, since the beginning of the meat Xing, the psychology of the prisoner, the body has produced a lifelong injury that is difficult to repeat, often because there is no effective treatment, the people who have suffered from the meat Xing are too good to describe it as painful and not wanting to live, and it is better to live than to die.
The five types of corporal punishment continued from the beginning of the Xia Shang Zhou until the early years of the Han Dynasty, because the Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system, which basically continued the laws of the Qin Dynasty, so corporal punishment was retained as the most important criminal law.
Below our protagonist appears.
During the first year before Emperor Wen of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a man named Chun Yuyi in Linzi of the State of Qi (now in Zibo Territory), the official to Taicang Ling, equivalent to the position of the director of the Grain Bureau of the State of Qi, and what achievements this Mr. Chun Yu had in his work had not been handed down in history, but he had a hobby, that is, he liked medical research, which can be said to be obsessed. There was an old man in the city named Yang Qing, who was a famous doctor who was nearly seventy years old and had no children to pass on. Seeing that I was out of school and could not find a successor, my heart was anxious!
The heavens did not pay off, Chun Yuyi came to the old man, "I intend to learn medicine and bitter nameless teacher, may Mr. Teach me!" The old man was overjoyed, poured out his heart, and passed on all his skills to this Mr. Chunyu. Since I got the true biography of the famous master, it is simply a hand to hand, medicine to the disease. He is arrogant and arrogant, and never cares about the cost of medical treatment. Soon it became famous and well-known. Like many young people I am in now, it is one thing to like hobbies, but doing the same thing every day is boring and fun. Chun Yuyi often indulged in the mountains and rivers under the pretext of going out, and often patients came to visit, but they could not find anyone.
If this is ordinary people, they will sigh and complain, but it is different when they meet powerful people. The relatives of this unworthy minister fell ill, because they did not receive the treatment of the divine doctor, and as a result died.........
Who called you a doctor, who made you wait for me without being at home? A complaint was filed against the government, saying that he had used medicine to deceive others and disrespect life. Poor Chun Yuyi was sentenced to corporal punishment.
Filial piety is the most important core of morality in traditional Chinese culture, and in the Book of Filial Piety, "the body is skinned, the parents are received, do not dare to be injured, the beginning of teaching, stand on the path, make a name for future generations, to show parents, filial piety to the end." ”
The skin of the body is inherited from the parents, so until death, it is necessary to maintain a complete body and return it to the parents, which is filial piety, if a person is subjected to corporal punishment, it is to destroy the body, that is, filial piety.
Fortunately, Chun Yuyi was also an official of the imperial court and could not be disposed of at will at the local level. The imperial court ordered him to be escorted to the capital Chang'an to receive punishment. It can be seen that doctors have been a high-risk industry since ancient times! Hats off to the world's medical workers! Hearing this news, the whole family hugged together and wept bitterly, and when they were about to go on the road, all five daughters went to bid farewell to their old father. Chun Yuyi only had these five thousand gold and no sons. Looking at the crying daughter, Lao Chunyu sighed: "After giving birth to so many daughters and no sons, there is really no useful one at the critical time." What a fate!
Hearing the old father's words of disappointment, the youngest daughter Chun Yu Ti Hao stood up, simply cleaned up, and went to Beijing with her father's prison cart, even if it was to pay for her own life to protect her father from harm. True filial piety also!
It should be known that it takes more than 1,000 kilometers to go from Zibo in Shandong to the capital Chang'an (Xi'an), and in the traffic conditions of that year, Xiao Tichen could only follow the prison cart all the way on foot, eating and sleeping in the wind.
When he arrived in the capital, his father was taken to the big prison and waited to be tortured. Xiao Tiqian found his father's friend in Jingshi to help write a complaint material, and had to find a way to send it to the emperor. There is no record of how it was transmitted in the history of the zheng, but it is recorded in the notes of the wild history that on the way back from Emperor Wen's trip, Ti Hao blocked the way to deliver it. This credibility is not high, in that era, the supreme leader traveled, how many miles ahead of the street was already clear, where else to allow people to block the road to file a complaint? The greatest possibility was presented to the emperor through Chun Yuyi's friend Tuo Ren.
Emperor Wen was amazed to hear about this, and a weak woman had acted like this. As the emperor, I can't help but feel respect. The content of the book is briefly introduced: "The father of the little girl is a small official, everyone in the country of Qi calls her honest and just, and now because she has broken the law and is ready to be punished by corporal punishment, I feel sad that a person who has died can no longer be reborn, and a person who has been tortured by corporal punishment can no longer restore his body, even if he wants to correct his mistakes and become a man again, he cannot do as he pleases." The little girl wishes to be a slave in the government to atone for her father's sins and "make herself reformed." This is where the reformed idiom comes from. Emperor Wen of Han was well aware of the suffering inflicted on people by corporal punishment since ancient times, and was touched by the voice of the people from the lowest level of society. Since then, it has been announced that four of the five penalties of corporal punishment will be abolished. Changing it to fighting (hitting the board) or flogging (hitting the back of the thorn) is already a great progress in ancient times!