What does yoke mean?

Yoke, a morpheme, can be used as an adjective or a noun. Yoke, plus also. Adding a staff to the head of the handle to get over the spike and out of its grain is also used.

Morphic character. From 木, 加声.1.音jiā，a kind of agricultural tool for beating rice, also called a yoke. Shiyi nian - shi yu zhi (释名-释用器)："Yoke, plus also, plus the staff on the head of the handle in order to Laos ears and out of its grain also." Yu zhuan - Mu bu (The Wood Section): "Yoke, lian yoke, a threshing implement." Guoyu (国语-齐语)："S耒耜枷芟."

Song Fan Chengda's "Miscellany in the Fields at Four Seasons," No. 44 of 60: "In the sound of laughter and song, the thunder moves lightly, and the yoke resounds all night long until the morning." It also refers to a kind of wooden torture device that is put around the neck of a prisoner. The Jade Chapter - The Wood Section: "Yoke, yoke." Northern History - Liuguoguo biography: "There are no shackles in prison, but only rope restraints." ?

2. yin jià, also refers to shelves used for shelving objects. Li Ji - Qu Li Shang: "Men and women do not sit together, different clothes-horse yoke." (horse椸枷: clothes rack) Lu Deming explains: "Yoke, this is also used as a rack. Xuyinjiao." This meaning was later written as "rack".

The wooden yoke (枷号) The yoke, inspired by the agricultural tools of threshing and named after the yoke, began in the Jin Dynasty and was in use until the Qing Dynasty, a period of 1,500 years, during which time the specifications, weights, and styles continued to change, from heavier to lighter, from larger to smaller.

There is also the use of the yoke's functions were applied to the hands, feet, more or yoke neck-based, from the material, in addition to wood-based, appeared to use cast iron yoke, leather yoke, etc., there are also used in the rope and chain configuration. General wooden yoke by a person to wear, there is also a yoke to wear two or three people.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the wooden yoke is widely used, in the downtown area and the road, the post, often seen wearing a wooden yoke of male and female prisoners, some Westerners came to China to study the Chinese law is often photographed with a camera. These real photographs testify to the history of the traditional instruments of torture in the ancient and backward China for thousands of years before the Qing Dynasty.

It was only under the influence of Western law that the wooden yoke was changed to a fine. With this, the wooden yoke officially withdrew from the stage of history, and became a cultural relic of ancient law.