Why was spanking popular in ancient times? Who invented the punishment of spanking?

I believe that friends who often watch costume dramas should find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, the punishment often used by all officials in ancient times to punish prisoners is spanking (rod punishment). Then the question is coming, why did the rod punishment prevail in ancient times? Who invented the rod punishment (there are eggs at the end of the article)?

Today, I will explain these two problems to you. Let's start with the first one. Why was spanking popular in ancient times?

First reason

According to modern medical research, everyone has hundreds of acupoints, which are densely distributed in all corners of people, but the ass is an exception. In other words, there are no acupuncture points on the ass. In this way, spanking can not only play the role of punishment, but also not hurt people's hearts. Why not?

Of course, in addition, there is another embarrassing reason, that is, the ass is fatter than other organs on the human body. To put it bluntly, it is more resistant to fighting and more resistant to fighting. So, everyone knows.

Second reason

Since Confucianism was regarded as the ruling class, the ancients paid more attention to propriety, justice and honesty, regardless of gender. The so-called courtesy, justice and shame naturally include not exposing the body (any part) in public, and the buttocks are located in the middle of the person and lower, which is not so elegant (cough), so once naked, it will cause great psychological harm to the prisoners.

It is necessary for the author to mention that in fact, at the beginning, you don't have to take off your clothes, but you don't know when it started (it seems to have started in the Song Dynasty and continued in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties), and you have to take off your clothes to be punished, regardless of sex.

Why is spanking popular? Who invented spanking?

First of all, flogging originated from the punishment of flogging (chρ), one of the five punishments in ancient times, but flogging was one of the five punishments in pre-Qin, which felt a little physical punishment (damaging the body), so it did not conform to the Confucian concept of governing the country.

(West) During the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, in order to better govern the country, a big tripod was placed on Chang 'an Avenue, telling the people of the whole country that anyone who has ideas about governing the country can write their ideas on bamboo slips and put them in the tripod, and as long as they are adopted, they will get a large reward.

Under the reward, Emperor Wen of Han soon got a lot of strategies about governing the country. Although it was shoddy, it was still useful in most cases, so Emperor Wen rewarded and adopted it one by one. One day, however, Wendi received a very special bamboo slip. The words on the bamboo slips are so distorted that they are not written by adults at first glance. Moreover, the bamboo slips did not write any strategies for governing the country, but only wrote a story.

The general content of the story is that one hundred families in the Han army were punished for making mistakes, and the result of the punishment was that one foot was cut off. But all the needs of these 100 families depend on him alone. Now that he is disabled, this family is finished. Therefore, the children (girls) in this family begged Emperor Wen of Han to abolish corporal punishment and change it to other punishments that did not harm the fundamentals.

Emperor Wen of Han read the bamboo slips and thought it was very reasonable, so he called the ministers to discuss the matter. Finally, with the consent of most officials, Wendi abolished the "five punishments" of the Qin Dynasty and established another five punishments. The new five punishments stipulate that corporal punishment cannot be used as long as it is not treason (rebellion, murder, etc.). ), and this new criminal law was later used-rod punishment.

From here, friends should know the cause and effect of spanking, right? But the article doesn't end here! The author will tell you something else (eggs, hee hee).

As we all know, cudgel punishment has been the main punishment since the Han Dynasty, but in the Song Dynasty, scholars did not have to be punished because they could not be punished as doctors. But in the Ming dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, didn't care about this because he was a clown. At his request, he is not only a doctor, but also a palace-Zhang Ting.

The so-called Zhang Ting, is spanking in front of the palace officials, as long as the emperor is willing, no one can run away (when Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty and Emperor Wanli of Ming Shenzong fought for power for the country, hundreds of people outside the palace spanked together). After a hundred years of inheritance in the Ming Dynasty, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, eunuchs and officials at all levels who often beat boards all practiced a set of magical techniques, that is, the same number of boards, the same loud voice and the same materials, but the results were completely different.

And as far as I know, these eunuchs and officials decide what to fight according to the secret code. For example, pull it down and fight! Then this board is only a symbolic blow, only hurting the flesh and bones. But if you pull it down, hit it hard! Then this board may be bruised. What's more, if you say, come on, give me a hard blow! Then this board will be miserable, ranging from hemiplegia to death on the spot!