There were many kinds of punishments in ancient China, some of which were used to punish the prisoner physically, and some were used to humiliate the prisoner.
A combination of physical and mental devastation, which is a punishment for certain special offenders.
That's it".Murder and heart
There is a punishment called:髡線 is one of the five ancient Chinese punishments
This is done by shaving all or part of the prisoner's hair as a sign of humiliation. This kind of punishment mainly existed from the Xia, Shang and Zhou periods to the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Why is there a punishment that seems so light?
It doesn't seem like shaving your hair is a big deal.
But that was in ancient times, the ancientsIt is considered unfilial piety to cut the hair or hurt the body to the parents who have been exposed to the body, so the ancients would not cut their hair easily.
It's not the same for a monk to shave his headThey have become monks, outside of the worldFinish.
In some cases, prisoners were publicly shaved off half of their hair, which was called "at the time."Yin and yang heads”。Those who have shaved their heads and are criticized will feel great shame in their hearts.
In addition to shaving their hair, some also shave half of their eyebrows.
to themTrampling on personality, more cruel than physical punishment.
Because people who have received this kind of punishment, even if they survive well, they will always be pointed out and poked in the backbone, so that they dare not go out and cannot hold their heads up and be human.
The ancients took their own very seriouslyHair and beardto see them as an integral part of the body.
At the same time, the ancients were also superstitious, believing that hair is the essence of the bodyIf you hurt your hair, your body will also be damaged
In addition to this, the ancients alsoUse hair as a substitute for your bodyin place of my own experience.
Cao Cao once had to be punished for hurting the crops in the field and breaking the law, but as a commander, according to the rules of not punishing doctors at that time, he could not use any punishment against him, so he cut off his hair and poked his hair to be punished instead of him.
is such a severe punishment, but Zhu Yuanzhang used it to punish his own son, which is really "righteous annihilation"!
As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, in order to consolidate the newly defeated country, he implemented a series of strict governance.
He didn't even let go of his own son's mistakes.
Zhu Yuanzhang had more than twenty sons, among themOne of his favorite sons is his tenth son, Zhu Tan
Not long after Zhu Tan was born, he was bornHe was given a fief and was named the king of Lu
Zhu Yuanzhang likes this son so much because of his motherConcubine Guo Ning
Guo Ningfei's father, Guo Shanfu, decided early on that Zhu Yuanzhang would have a great future, so he let his two sons follow Zhu Yuanzhang and married his daughter to Zhu Yuanzhang.
After the founding of the Ming Dynasty,The Guo family became a favored minister
When Zhu Tan was born, it coincided with the death of Queen Ma and Concubine Li ShuThe power of the harem is in the hands of Concubine Guo Ning, Zhu Tan's status in the palace is self-evident.
After Zhu Tan grew up, when he arrived in the fiefdom, Zhu Yuanzhang also married the daughter of Tang He, the founder of the country, to him and named himKing Lu
You must know that Zhu Yuanzhang was at that timeKilled a lot of heroes, but didn't do anything to Tang He, which shows the trust in him.
Zhu Tan was an obedient and sensible child when he was young, but after going to the fiefdom, without Zhu Yuanzhang's control and away from the imperial court, he felt free and began to enjoy himself.
Tang Shi, together with Zhu Tan, was also obsessed with alchemy and cultivating Taoist Fangshi, engaged in the fiefdom of the miasma, thisIt is contrary to Zhu Yuanzhang's way of governing the country
Knowing what Zhu Tan had done in the fiefdom, Zhu Yuanzhang urgently summoned the couple back to Beijingdirectly executed Princess Lu Tang
But for his son, Zhu Yuanzhang was reluctant to kill him.
Butdid not punish and could not calm the people's anger, so Zhu Tan was punished。It can be seen that Zhu Yuanzhang was angry at that time.
Then Zhu Tan will raise some Jianghu warlocks to refine some elixirs, and Zhu Yuanzhang will make such a big fire and kill his princess?
It turned out that Zhu Tan's means of refining elixirBrutal and unjust
The elixirs refined by those Jianghu warlocks were originally deceitful, and of course Zhu Tan had no effect of prolonging life after eating it, and the bad effects still appeared after a long time.
The monks tricked Zhu Tan into using a new medicine primerBoys become medicine and lead to medicine
thought that using murder to scare Zhu Tan would make him retreat, but Zhu Tan didn't dare to do itBut his princess was willing to do it for him, ordered people to capture many boys for castration, and used the cut "utensils" for alchemy.
The move of King Lu and his wife aroused great public anger in the fiefdom.
Therefore, in order to appease the local people, Princess Lu must die.
And castration of a boy was also a felony, but according to the system of leniency for the royal family at the time:"If the prince commits the palace punishment, he should be deprived of his hair
Zhu Tan was sentenced to punishment as a punishment.
After the death of Princess Lu, Zhu Yuanzhang was motivated by political considerationsmarried Tang He's other daughter to Zhu Tan
But Zhu Tan lost his sight due to an overdose of pills, so Zhu Yuanzhang let him go.
But the one who sins deeply will be accepted by God.
Zhu TanAt the age of nineteen, he died of poison。Zhu Yuanzhang mourned his misfortune and was angry with him, and gave it to himThe nickname is "wilderness", that is, Lu wildernessKing.