Why did ancient women prefer suicide to jail?

In ancient times, prisons were mainly set up to safeguard imperial rule, and there was no human rights at all. If a woman is sentenced to prison, she will suffer both physical and psychological torture, which is very painful!

The ancient feudal thought attached great importance to women's chastity, but the punishment for women in ancient times ruined women's honor everywhere. Even women who are punished for misdemeanors will be humiliated.

Whipping is spanking, but you have to "take off your clothes and take a stick". Not only that, the government has to inform people, relatives and neighbors in the city to watch. How can a woman face people after being punished like this?

Although there was a relatively perfect legal system in ancient times, there was a lack of supervision mechanism, so some officials artificially created unjust cases.

Yu Yue, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, once recorded such a thing: Fang Dazhuang, the county magistrate, was a lecherous. If he tried a case involving a woman, he deliberately involved adultery and then took the woman naked. How many women have been treated unfairly here?

If a woman commits a felony and is sentenced to prison, she will suffer inhuman torture. In the Qing dynasty, once in prison, officials and women starved female prisoners for two days and were beaten. In the evening, they take turns to "cook eagles" and duel with female prisoners.

If a female prisoner has a little beauty and is favored by the warden or jailer of a male prison, it is inevitable to lose her virginity. Not only that, they also started a "flesh business" in prison. If a male prisoner has money, he can invade a female prisoner at will.

Women who have been in prison, even if they are released from prison, will suffer from the cold reception and contempt of society and relatives.

Li Qingzhao, a poetess in the Song Dynasty, was once imprisoned for being involved in a marriage lawsuit. After she got out of prison, her relatives and friends were far away from her, and finally she spent the rest of her life alone.

Li Qingzhao was still a famous and prestigious woman in the Song Dynasty. She ended up in such a miserable situation, not to mention other women.

Therefore, if an ancient woman was sentenced to jail, she would rather commit suicide than go to jail.

Every dynasty in ancient times had its own laws and corresponding punishment methods for criminals. Being in prison is also a way of serving a sentence. In ancient times, prison was a terrible place for women. Some women would rather commit suicide than go to jail.

This is because some ancient "punishments" were cruel to women, which would be more cruel than killing them.

In ancient times, before a prisoner was sentenced to prison, there was usually a court trial, and sometimes people watched it. In this trial, there is a punishment called "flogging", which also includes the provision of "taking off clothes and accepting punishment". Generally speaking, it is "spanking", and men will not mention it. For women, it is an insulting punishment to take off their pants and be spanked in court and public places.

There is also going to prison. In ancient times, chastity was very important for women, but once a woman was in prison, it was equivalent to losing her chastity and suffering both physical and mental injuries in prison.

Physical injury is not only cruel punishment, but also bullying by the jailer. For the jailer, a woman in prison has no chastity. If some attractive women go to prison, some jailers with ulterior motives will invade them.

Mental injury, for a woman, it is difficult to protect herself when she goes to prison. Going in is equivalent to losing your virginity. Even if she goes out one day, she will be talked about by her neighbors, even her own family members are not allowed.

Under such circumstances, for ancient women, going to prison is equivalent to destroying themselves, so they don't want to have anything to do with prison.

References: Criminal Law Records of Ming Dynasty

Ancient women did not participate in politics, so it was difficult to do anything important. Generally, women go to prison because of family chores, such as not being filial to their in-laws, and more seriously, cheating.

Many women choose to commit suicide before appearing in court or after sentencing, rather than going to jail. Why?

In the earliest days, prisons were gender-neutral, and many women were locked up with a group of men, who also broke the law. How can they not touch women? Some female prisoners may be abused by those prisoners in turn. On the one hand, their psychology will be greatly hurt, on the other hand, their bodies will be unbearable.

Later, although women's prisons appeared, women could not be detained with men. However, this does not mean that women can live safely in prison. Besides male prisoners, there are also jailers. Prison guards often attack women personally, and they don't care about women. After playing, some will use various means to destroy a woman's body and even make her unable to have sex for life.

Li Qingzhao, a famous talented woman, was imprisoned. At that time, Li Qingzhao received a lot of help. Li Qingzhao was not persecuted in prison, but her life was very difficult after she was released from prison. Many people want to get rid of her, and she will be lonely for the rest of her life.

In ancient times, imprisonment was considered a very shameful thing, especially for women. After going to prison, many women are their own biological parents and brothers and sisters, and they also want to draw a line with her, feeling ashamed, let alone their in-laws

In ancient times, women's chastity was very important. Many women have done immoral things and even been tortured by riding donkeys. Nine times out of ten, when a woman comes out of prison, she is no longer chaste.

Such a woman will not be wanted by her husband after she is released from prison. Even if she wants to remarry, it's hard. Besides, neighbors talk about her behind her back every day, and those gossips are no worse than the pain in prison.

For these reasons, many ancient women committed suicide after committing crimes instead of waiting for them to get out of prison.

Ancient women can't compare with modern women. They are bound by many things, the biggest of which is "chastity". Therefore, most ancient women were confined in the boudoir, unable to leave the front door or enter the second door.

Imagine that if a woman goes to prison, she will be insulted by the jailer and lose her life and chastity if she is not careful. Then she will be spurned by everyone, which is more serious than killing her.

What's more, the torture in prison is unbearable for most men, let alone a woman. Being tortured by all kinds of torture, it is better to end it yourself and be happier.

In ancient times, when women went to prison, they suffered not only physical torture, but also mental injury, so they often chose to commit suicide instead of going to prison.

In ancient China, the idea that men were superior to women was very serious. Since childhood, women have to bind their feet, learn needlework and embroidery, and accept feudal ideas such as the Three Cardinal Principles and the Five Permanent Principles. Most of them can't get out of the front door and the second door. When guests come to the house, they should avoid it.

Therefore, there is basically no possibility for ancient women to commit crimes and go to jail. However, because it is a male accessory, it is "married with the father at home." Once their father or husband commits a felony, they will also be implicated and sentenced to jail.

In ancient times, many women would rather commit suicide than go to prison. What is the reason?

For the official women, the sharp status contrast makes them feel unacceptable, from the luxurious ladies of the slaves in droves to the prisoners who have no food and are in the dark. Women in official families are not strong enough to live alone, because they have been served by special maids and wet nurses since birth. Once in prison, they are likely to be at a loss, or even die in prison with no one to serve them.

Therefore, many women in official families commit suicide because they can't accept the strong realistic contrast and are worried that they will not survive and die in prison.

The environment in ancient prisons was extremely bad. Not only are three meals a day mostly moldy and spoiled food, but prison officials often enforce the law violently. For example, a prisoner is beaten with a hundred clubs in prison, and he will be beaten carelessly when serving his sentence in prison. For female prisoners, sexual harassment and sexual assault are very likely, which is even more unacceptable than death for ancient women who attach great importance to chastity. Therefore, they would rather commit suicide than be insulted.

After ancient officials were convicted, there was another way to punish their wives and daughters, that is, to be slaves and become official prostitutes or prostitutes. Official prostitutes are fine. They mainly serve dignitaries, and their treatment is much better than that in prison.

Prostitutes are equivalent to comfort women in the Japanese army, mainly serving the soldiers in the army. Ancient women regarded chastity as their life and were willing to protect their innocence with death, so they chose to commit suicide. Ancient women were regarded as accessories of men and had no right to participate in imperial examinations, business and politics. Even if they don't commit crimes themselves, they may be convicted for being implicated. Their fate is always in the hands of others, which makes people feel helpless.

Our understanding of ancient punishment is more or less, perhaps largely obtained from TV or books. Ancient punishments were really cruel, and there were all kinds of them, such as car splitting, waist cutting, peeling, annual income and so on. Moreover, in ancient times, there were penalties specifically for women. There is a very terrible and cruel punishment, "riding a wooden donkey", which is similar in shape to the merry-go-round in our amusement park now, but there are many spikes on the back of the wooden donkey, and female prisoners have to be punished on it until they die. It sounds terrible. This is why ancient women would rather commit suicide than go to jail. For example, there is a very creepy punishment, which is estimated that everyone has heard of, that is, "squatting", that is, cutting off people's limbs, gouging out people's eyes, and then pouring medicine into people's five senses. I read a book, which said that in the Western Han Dynasty, Lv Hou used human trafficking to deal with Mrs. Qi in order to get back at her. The last appearance was really scary. As for why women don't want to go to jail, there are of course some reasons. One of the reasons, as we all know, ancient prisons were really dark and dirty. As long as they entered the prison, their fate was basically unknown. One of the punishments for female prisoners is flogging, spanking or taking off your pants. How can you stand such humiliation? This one is lighter. When I entered the prison, it was ok to meet a relatively upright prison guard. If there is a dirty jailer, he will really try his best to take advantage of female prisoners and even insult them, and countless female prisoners will lose their virginity. For ancient women, after this crime, they have no face to continue living. Then, instead of being humiliated in prison, it is better to give yourself a good time and get rid of it. Another reason is that in fact, women have almost alienated from others after committing crimes, because we know that there were many restrictions on women in ancient times. Usually, the door is closed, the second door is not allowed, and there are various rules and regulations. Then, no matter how wrong an ancient woman committed a crime, her relatives around her might not be able to accept it. At this time, maybe she was already dead. It is better to die than to go to prison and suffer, and to be completely innocent. It was really difficult for female prisoners in ancient times. Once they commit a crime, it is really worse to live in humiliation than to take their own lives.

Why did ancient women prefer suicide to jail? If we look at the logic behind this question, the answer to this question is obvious, that is, dying in prison is more painful than suicide. In other words, ancient women died even worse in prison.

In the ancient feudal society of China, the traditional concept was very serious, and women were often in a low position, probably more like objects that existed as male accessories, which could not be compared with the present society at all. At the same time, women are also required to follow the four virtues, home and home.

In this way, there are fewer opportunities for women to commit crimes, but if you break the law, the punishment for crimes will be more severe. For example, if an ancient person is caught stealing, he will be released soon, that is, imprisoned for a period of time. But if a woman breaks the law, the punishment will be more severe, not to mention committing more serious crimes, such as adultery.

As we all know, ancient women may value chastity more than life, especially in the Song Dynasty, when Neo-Confucianism prevailed in Zhu Cheng, the Three Cardinal Principles and Five Permanent Principles kept righteousness and destroyed human desires. During this period, women can't meet other men outside, let alone remarry with others. That's how a good woman doesn't marry a mistress. If a woman remarries, she will be laughed at and spurned by people around her.

And spanking, which was one of the most common punishments in ancient China. Spanking is actually one of the ancient rod punishments. This punishment is different for men and women. When a man is punished, he is separated by underwear, and a woman has to take off her pants and hit him naked. What's more, there must be a lot of people watching this punishment. It is conceivable that this is a great shame for ancient women who value chastity, and it is worse than death. This punishment makes women feel uncomfortable.

In fact, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there appeared prisons for holding female prisoners alone. From then on, men and women were separated. Don't think this is the performance of humanized management. Prison is a mixed place. Prison guards are mostly gangsters and male prisoners, so female prisoners in prisons are basically the targets of abuse by prison guards, and there are also various targets of aggression by male prisoners who enter prisons. Therefore, it is common for ancient women to be molested and humiliated as long as they go to prison.

Here is a similar example. After the shame of Jingkang, those women who were taken as prisoners, whether they were supreme queens or ordinary women, were molested and humiliated by all the nomads in the world. It doesn't make much difference once a woman becomes a prisoner. No one will be less humiliated by being a female prisoner. On the contrary, women will be shamelessly humiliated because of their high status, so often these women with high status will be humiliated more, so often women with high status can't accept the end of imprisonment, and they are more likely to choose suicide to avoid being humiliated.

So if ancient women went to prison, they were almost sold into brothels, even worse than the living conditions of brothels. Moreover, once an ancient woman was imprisoned, even if she was wronged, it was difficult to clear her innocence. Even if you are lucky, you will meet an honest and strict official, clear your innocence and get out of prison. This life stain of being in prison is very shameful, and it will be pointed at by people around you, and it is very likely that you will never get married.

To sum up, this is really unacceptable to women who valued chastity in ancient times, and suicide may be more affordable.

This is my humble opinion on why ancient women would rather commit suicide than go to jail. I wonder if I can answer your confusion.

In ancient times, women's status was not high. Especially after the Song Dynasty, Neo-Confucianism prevailed in Zhu Cheng, and women's concept of chastity began to take root in people's hearts. Even for young women, there were quite strict regulations on remarriage.

In this social atmosphere, the higher the status of women, the more educated they are, the deeper this concept will be. For the sake of survival, the poor will not learn embroidery at home all day, like educated people, and they will be served by maids all day, and they will have no worries about food and clothing.

These women can also work, weave and live on their own.

Therefore, the concept of moral integrity also implies the difference of status. There is a story in A Dream of Red Mansions. When Xue Baochai saw an actress in the Grand View Garden, she felt familiar, but it was hard to say. On the contrary, Shi Xiangyun, who was careless, bluntly said that the girl who sang opera was a bit like Lin Daiyu.

Originally just a joke, Lin Daiyu's face would immediately. She was angry because she was compared with the actress. It can be seen that even a joke is unacceptable to women.

And if a woman is associated with a criminal, then this sense of humiliation is even stronger. Once a woman is in prison, she loses all her dignity, status and pride.

After the shame of Jingkang, those women who were taken as prisoners were molested and humiliated by nomads from all over the country. From the Supreme Queen to ordinary women.

Once you become a prisoner, it doesn't make much difference. No one will reduce some humiliation because of women's previous status. On the contrary, it will be even more shamelessly humiliated because of women's lofty status. Often these powerful women suffer more humiliation.

In history, it is not difficult to find the tragic experiences of some female prisoners. In the Ming Dynasty, the daughter of the hero Tanghe was implicated in her husband's crime and became a prostitute. There is no difference between prostitutes in this camp and prostitutes in the flesh business, even lower than those people. The wife and daughter of Tie Xuan, a loyal minister, also suffered such a situation.

This kind of punishment is the most serious and humiliating punishment. It is a fatal blow to the body, to the body and mind, and to the dignity. Although some minor offenders will not have such a tragic ending, the ending will not be much better.

As long as you go to prison and get teased and humiliated, it's a common occurrence. According to national laws, prison guards are not allowed to molest or insult female prisoners.

But this kind of law is simply a dead letter. Because the jailer is in prison, there is no way to humiliate female prisoners. As long as they don't talk, who knows? And how dare humiliated female prisoners tell others?

Therefore, the phenomenon of insulting female prisoners has been repeatedly banned. Even if no one admits it, everyone knows it. This tacit understanding will have a huge psychological shadow on the woman's family and women themselves. Even if you have to be laughed at by others all your life, this taste is simply suffering.

Few women can bear such humiliation, so, in fact, death is more useful. After all, it can save the whole festival, avoid humiliation, and more importantly, never lift your head again. Therefore, many women would rather commit suicide than go to jail.

In ancient times, many women would rather be beheaded than go to jail. Many people don't understand and feel that life is worse than death. This is the reason when you specifically understand why ancient women didn't want to go to jail. In ancient times, there was a punishment for women called flogging. Also known as "spanking", it means spanking.

There is also the misconduct of officers and men. You will ask, shouldn't men be separated from women? However, the reason why men and women are held separately is not because men and women have different considerations, but to meet the physiological needs of officers and men with female prisoners. Once in prison, it means losing chastity. Ancient women valued chastity more than life. Ancient women went to prison, and once they were in prison, even if they were wronged, it was difficult to clear their names. Ancient women went to prison, almost all of them followed the brothel. The doomed woman, in particular, is almost a tool for the jailer to vent in prison.