In court film and television dramas, when the emperor gets angry, he will pull out those who make him unhappy and "behead". In fact, in ancient China, the Meridian Gate was not a place for beheading. Historically, the meridian gate was the main entrance of the Forbidden City. Imagine which emperor would kill at his own door? In fact, the place to behead is not at the meridian gate, but at the vegetable market, where there are not only many people, but also the effect of showing people. With the spread of the people, this meridian gate has been decapitated by word of mouth.

But in the Ming dynasty, the meridian gate really became a place of punishment. Who can discourage the emperor from trying to kill people at his own door? Advice is hard to listen to since ancient times. Those ministers who were not afraid of life and death were outspoken and made the emperor unhappy, so they were tied up at the meridian gate for "war punishment."

In fact, the emperor just wanted to teach these ministers a lesson, so that they would not disobey themselves in the future, and did not rise to the level of "decapitation." With the development of film and television dramas, we can see that it is the executioner's business to beat the sinner, and the powerful can buy the executioner. Because of this, the penalty of "war punishment" has evolved into words such as "stick" and "beheading" in the folk circulation. So there was the phrase "pull out the meridian gate and behead".

In fact, the real "decapitation" place is the vegetable market, which we can see in film and television dramas, but all guilty people, whether they are escorted by prison cars or sinners in chains, will be taken to the vegetable market, and people will throw rotten eggs, vegetables and leaves on the road. Only the "vegetable market" can truly achieve the "public" effect.