What does it mean that punishment begins with military salute and ends with sacrifice?

Punishment begins with soldiers: it is a classic summary of the unique path of ancient Chinese law. It is a military criminal law to regulate one's military behavior and safeguard one's military interests by taking violence in tribal wars as punishment. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, under the "reform" system of combining patriarchal clan system with feudal system, it developed from family habits in primitive society to national laws, and there were two ways to punish crimes caused by violating etiquette: war and punishment.

Rites originated from worship: it refers to the process of China's transformation from primitive society to slave society, and it is also the process of constant conquest by different clans and tribes. The war gradually unified the primitive clans and tribes, and the war brought punishment while creating the country. In fact, war itself is the greatest punishment, and the initial punishment applies to the target. Later, with the division of classes within the clan.