Are there any rules for beating the board in ancient yamen?

"Blame 40 boards!" For such a plot, we can often see from costume dramas that this is a common punishment in ancient yamen-hitting the board (commonly known as "hitting the board"). For the staff, it is a punishment and a means. On the one hand, it is a punishment for the parties after closing the case, on the other hand, it can also be regarded as a compulsory means to obtain confessions. But I think modern people may ignore blood, so I will say it from the following two aspects: 1, pain. Since it is a punishment, there can be no pain, but the pain of this beating may be unimaginable to ordinary people. Generally, the wooden boards used in ancient courts, the smallest is more than 20 kilograms, and the largest can reach 40-50 kilograms. It is estimated that few people can stand such a heavy weight, which is why prisoners are often scared to death when they hear the sound of the board. Generally speaking, not many people can clearly get 20 boards, even fewer can get 40 boards, and often faint or even die halfway. If you don't believe me, you might as well find a board weighing 20 or 30 kilograms and take a few photos on your ass. You should be able to feel the taste. 2. skills. Yes, each of the 360 lines has its own skills, and the official is no exception. In ancient times, an official could not be appointed casually. The first thing to practice is playing the board. There are two ways to practice, with different goals. The first type: light outside and heavy inside. This style of play is to wrap a thick slate with clothes. The clothes were required to be intact after the play, but the slate inside was broken into rubble. This kind of play is often a severe punishment given to prisoners when the case has been closed. According to this game, the prisoner's pelvis and even internal organs will be broken in just 20 times, but no damage can be seen from the appearance, but the actual result is either death or disability. This is really a more insidious game. ~_~! The second type: heavy outside and light inside. This kind of play is to wrap a sheet piling in clothes, and it is required that after the performance, the clothes are torn and the paper inside is unscathed. This style of play is often used to extract confessions. According to this style of play, it looks like a raw skin, but in fact it hurts the skin without hurting the muscles and bones. There is no danger. When the prisoner is dizzy with pain, he will splash water and continue to fight until the prisoner confesses. No one usually dies. Therefore, there is a later phenomenon. Some prisoners estimate that they may be hit hard (such as the first type) and bribe the officers. After these chiefs received the money, they naturally played in the latter way. Officials who don't know the inside story are often deceived. How can I put it? Corporal punishment is always bloody, the simplest corporal punishment is no exception. Although it is against human nature, it is still relatively easy to use. For example, Singapore now retains flogging. Hehe, it is estimated that not many people remember to eat or play, o

In the 13th year of Emperor Wendi (BC 167), after saving his father by writing, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty wrote to abolish corporal punishment and replace it with other punishments. Among them, when the whip was changed to 300, when his left toe was cut off, it was changed to 500. But 300 or 500 can mostly kill people, more than the original. So Liu Qi, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, wrote in the first year of the former Yuan Dynasty (BC 156) that using rattan was tantamount to capital punishment. Even if he is not dead, he will be severely disabled. Therefore, he changed Wendy's rules, 500 to 300, 300 to 200. In doing so, many prisoners were still killed. In the first year of the Central Plains (BC 144), Emperor Jingdi issued an imperial decree, which changed the rice quantity from 300 liang to 200 liang, and reduced it from 200 liang to 100 liang, and formulated an "imperial decree". A pestle is an instrument of torture used as a crutch. It was stipulated at that time that the pestle was five feet long and made of bamboo. The big head is one inch in diameter and the small head is half an inch. When executing, you should flatten the bamboo joints and whip your hips. From then on, according to this rule, the punished prisoners can save their lives. After the Han Dynasty, the punishment of whipping staff was chaotic and disorganized. In the Northern and Southern Dynasties, some dynasties used whipping, or flogging, because the whipping rod was too light. Since the Sui Dynasty, it has been officially separated from the punishment of whipping, and all of them have been listed as one of the five punishments (namely, slap, stick, imprisonment, exile and death penalty), among which slap is the lightest punishment, and the punishment of whipping is slightly heavier than slap, and the number of sticks, the size of instruments of torture, the parts to be punished and the time limit for sentencing are clearly defined. As for the number of flogging, Sui, Tang, Song, Jin and even Ming and Qing dynasties all designated flogging as five grades, ranging from ten strokes to fifty strokes, with one grade added for every ten strokes. The punishment for whipping varies from 60 to 100, and it is aggravated for every ten strokes. The punishment in Liao Dynasty was heavier, and there was no flogging. There are six levels of stick punishment, 50 to 300, and one level is added every 50 times. The number of strokes with sticks in Yuan Dynasty is quite special. There are six levels of flogging, from level seven to level fifty-seven, with one level for every ten strokes and one level for every ten strokes. This figure was stipulated by Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu. His original intention was to reduce the punishment. For the number of "spare him, spare him, and I will spare him" stipulated in the Song Dynasty, each class was reduced by three times. In fact, in the Yuan Dynasty, flogging was increased by one level, from five to six. As a result, except for the lowest flogging, every equivalent value in the future has increased seven times compared with that in the Song Dynasty. Therefore, during Yuan Dade's reign, Wang Shangshu, the minister of punishment, said: At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was stipulated that the number of employees should be reduced from ten to seven, and the number of employees should be reduced to forty-seven, and there should be no more 57 products; Whipping should be from 57 to 97, no more.