What kind of punishment is punishment?

Severe punishment is a Chinese vocabulary, and Chinese pinyin is kūn xíng, which is one of the five major punishments in ancient China. Shaving off all or part of people's hair is a humiliating punishment, which was mainly popular in China from Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties to the Eastern Han Dynasty.

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Yi, sound [kūn]. It means shaving the hair and beard of the prisoner. Hanging is a punishment for prisoners in the form of personal insult. The ancients believed that filial piety began when parents dared not destroy the suffering of the body and flesh! So it's a pity to shave his hair.

During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, Buddhism prevailed. Because Buddhists shave their heads and don't marry, secular society thinks it is a big unfilial move, so people at that time despised them as "hill people"

1. Also called "sudden punishment".

2. The ancient punishment of shaving the beard and hair of sinners. ?

Development history

Kun punishment originated in the Zhou Dynasty. In the royal family, those who commit castration take Kun for the palace, that is, long hair is broken into short hair. By the time of the Qin Dynasty, it lost this nature and became a punishment to shave off the beard of the prisoner. In ancient China, it was normal for men to grow hair and beards. This punishment takes the form of forcibly shaving the hair and beard of criminals, which makes criminals in an obvious abnormal state and makes them feel pain.

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There is a famous story that the audience may be familiar with. It was during a March that Cao Cao gave an order not to trample on farmland. He wants to protect farmers. If anyone's horse steps on a wheat field, it's a crime of decapitation.

So Cao Cao's cavalry all dismounted and walked, leading the horse in one hand and protecting the wheat with weapons in the other, and walked carefully. Cao Cao didn't dismount himself (a pheasant flew out of the ground), and the horse was surprised. A guy jumped into the wheat field, and Cao Cao's horse stepped on it. Cao Cao dismounted at once, called the military judge and said, What shall we do?

The military judge said, beheaded. Cao Cao said you should be put to death. Well, how is that possible? Anyway, there is this tradition in ancient times. A commander-in-chief can't punish doctors, can't cure Shu Ren, can't apply laws to venerable ones, and can't be beheaded. Cao Cao said there was nothing he could do, so he cut his hair. He drew his sword, cut off a hair and threw it on the ground, indicating that he had been punished.

During the Cultural Revolution, criticism prevailed, which was an insulting practice: shaving off half of a person's hair and keeping half. This hairstyle is called "Yin Yang Tou". Generally, the left side is shaved and the right side hair is left; Because the black five categories, monsters and other bad guys are divided into left, middle and right "right"

A few fierce executioners even shaved off half their eyebrows. Judging from the folkways left over from the barbaric times, only thieves, prostitutes and women who have corrupted the family style are punished by this extreme way of trampling on personal dignity, rather than corporal punishment, leaving a mark of shame. Twice as miserable and twice as cruel as corporal punishment.

The Book of Jin Chen Shou Chuan said that "Shoufu joined the army for Ma Su and was condemned by Zhuge Liang, and Shoufu also sat empty". The father of Chen Shou, the author of The Three Kingdoms, was implicated in Ma Su and was punished.