When it comes to the laws of Qin Dynasty, many people will think of the cruel laws of Qin Dynasty. It is said that the most short-lived Dynasty in Chinese history was the Qin Dynasty, so there were many human factors in the destruction of the Qin Dynasty. It was precisely because the emperor's cruelty and abuse of torture accelerated the collapse of the Qin Empire. In the Qin Dynasty, there were many ways to die, some of which were extremely tragic. There are many kinds of criminal law in Qin Dynasty, including death penalty, corporal punishment, exile punishment, imprisonment and so on. There are more than 30 kinds of criminal law in eight categories. Now let's take an inventory of the major torture of the Qin Dynasty to see how "abnormal"!
First, let's look at several kinds of death penalty. First, hanging. Strangulation is to strangle people with rope. In most cases, this kind of criminal law will only be applied to the people at the bottom, while the nobles usually use decapitation. The second is the leader. "Justice in historical records" has a description: "hanging his head on a wood is called an owl", which is commonly referred to as cutting off his head, cutting off his head and making a show on the wood. The first two kinds of death methods are more "simple", at least they are not so "inhuman". The following four kinds of death penalty are called "can't bear to look directly at".
The third one is waist chop. The execution of this punishment is just like the literal intuition, which directly cuts the prisoner into two parts by blocking his waist. It's just a brain patch that makes the picture creepy. "Records of the historian" records: "those who do not sue the traitor will be cut off. "Here we can refer to the famous statesman Li Si of the Qin Dynasty. His fate was so miserable that he was beheaded by Qin II and caused trouble in Xianyang.
The fourth kind, Zhe. It means that the executioner has divided the skin and flesh of the prisoner into hundreds of pieces, that is to say, he has "broken the corpse", which makes people suffer from mental and physical torture for several hours before death (the picture causes strong discomfort). Qin II actually used this kind of torture on his sisters, which is really cruel.
The fifth one is vehicle crack. This kind of punishment is quite "powerful", because it needs to use five cars, five cars are tied to people's head and limbs, and five horses are put on the car. In the final stage, five horses are separated. Shang Yang, assassin Jing Ke and eunuch Zhao Gao all died of this punishment.
Sixth, killing. This kind of criminal law not only requires you to die, but also requires you to die without dignity. We should know that the ancients valued moral integrity and dignity more than life. Whether it was killing or killing, the ancients would rather make a clean break than suffer such humiliation.
Of course, there are criminal laws that leave you breath and make your life and death worse, such as corporal punishment. Let's start with the lightest, Tsing. If you use a bayonet to carve characters or patterns on a prisoner's face, and then dye ink into it, the mark will last forever. The technique is a bit like the modern tattoo, but in the Qin Dynasty, the tattoo is a symbol of humiliation, but this kind of pain is nothing.
There is also a "disfigurement" of the sentence. "Zhou Li · autumn official · lynching" has long mentioned: "Zhe, cut off his nose. "That's to cut the criminal's nose. Imagine that there is no nose on a person's face. Isn't that scary.
There's another one that we've heard a little bit about, the palace penalty. This is a cruel corporal punishment of castration and destruction of male and female genitals in ancient times. You know, the ancient castration technology is very backward, if there is a woman suffered this type, it is really life is not like death. Sima Qian, a famous historian, was once persecuted. After Zhao Gao was captured by Qin, he was forced to be punished in the palace. According to Sanfu story, during the reign of Qin Shihuang, several 720000 people were punished in the palace. "It can be seen that the rule of the Qin emperor was cruel and harsh.
Of course, there are also some criminal laws that are not so bloody and violent, such as exile and imprisonment. The banishment type includes banishment punishment and banishment punishment. Although this kind of criminal law is light, but in ancient times, where is not a barren place to drink blood, once exiled, it is already dead. Banishment is to charge prisoners to the border and guard the border. It is a means to maintain the national security of the Qin Dynasty, and has more military significance.
There are many kinds of imprisonment. The first is Chengdan and chongzhong. This kind of criminal law is more merciful. Male prisoners are sent to build the Great Wall to do hard labor, while female prisoners do miscellaneous labor such as pounding rice. It's a kind of imprisonment. You don't have to see the sword and the blood. If you give the Qin Dynasty four years of hard work, you can save a small life. The second is ghost salary and white charm. The male offender is the ghost salary, who collects firewood for the ancestral temple, while the female offender is Bai can, who selects rice for the ancestral temple. Imprisonment is humane, unlike corporal punishment and death penalty, which are full of bloody violence. In addition, there are flogging, humiliation, economic punishment and implicative punishment, all of which reflect the harsh legislation and cruel punishment of the Qin Dynasty. It's really not easy to survive in the Qin Dynasty.
