We often see that in many costume dramas, when a prisoner is sentenced to "hitting another 50 boards" in court, it is the buttocks, not the hands, feet, chest and back. Except for a fleshy ass. Why?
In the Book of the New Tang Dynasty. "Criminal Law Records" uploaded: "Emperor Taizong tasted the" Tang Ming Acupuncture Map "and saw that the five artifacts were all close to the back, and the acupuncture was lost, so it was fatal. He sighed:' If the husband is clumsy, the five punishments are light; The dead are very important to people. Did Andrew get the lightest punishment or did he die? So I wrote to the sinner and said that he didn't come back with a whip. "It turns out that this is well-founded.
The Tang Dynasty was brilliant in the medical history of China. It not only inherited the existing medical heritage of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but also integrated the medicine of China on the basis of the official medical system established in the Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Sui Dynasty. During this period, many famous doctors and important medical works came out one after another, which also turned a new page in the medical history of China.
Zhen Quan was a famous doctor at the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, who was good at acupuncture. In 62 1 year, Emperor Taizong Li Shimin pacified Henan and appointed Li Xiyu as the local official of Luzhou. At that time, the court hired some doctors as examiners, and Zhen Quan was one of the examiners who accompanied Li Xiyu.
One day, Zhenquan showed Li Xiyu his carefully drawn "Tang Ming Human Figure", but unfortunately Li Xiyu didn't understand acupuncture and didn't take it seriously. On one occasion, Luzhou secretariat caught a cold, and he couldn't pull his bow. No one could cure him by looking for a famous doctor everywhere. Later, it was discovered that Zhen Quan was seeing a doctor for him. Zhen Quan stuck a needle in the shoulder corner of the secretariat, and immediately he was able to shoot an arrow with a needle. On the other hand, Ci Shi of Shenzhou suddenly fell ill, his neck was swollen, his throat was blocked, and he couldn't eat for three days. A needle was inserted into the second finger of Zhenquan's right hand, and he breathed smoothly. He ate normally the next day. For example, Zhen Quan's treatment made his Image of a Man in Tang Ming famous, and Li Xiyu was deeply impressed by the magical effect of acupuncture.
In the early years of Zhenguan, Li attacked the official and worshipped the supervisor of Shaofu. One day, Li Xiyu explained the beauty of Tang Mingtu to Tang Taizong, and Tang Taizong ordered him to preside over the revision, which enriched Zhenquan's Tang Mingtu and was recognized by Zhenquan. In 630 AD, the officially revised Illustration of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Tang Ming was finally completed and presented to Emperor Taizong.
After carefully reading the Map of Acupuncture and Moxibustion in Tang Ming, Emperor Taizong found that the chest and back of the human body are the places where the acupuncture points of the five internal organs are concentrated, while the acupuncture points of the buttocks are less. Therefore, Emperor Taizong believed that there were five punishments for flogging in the criminal law of Sui and Tang Dynasties, which were death penalty, exile, imprisonment, cudgel punishment and fetter punishment. Among them, whipping is the lightest, that is, beating the back or buttocks with bamboo boards or small thorns, from ten to fifty, divided into five grades. Although flogging is the lightest, it hides a crisis, and the back of the whip may accidentally cripple or die the prisoner. Therefore, in order to avoid killing criminals, the kind-hearted Emperor Taizong ordered that he could only be spanked in the yamen, not on the chest and back. Since then, beating prisoners in court has only hit their hips.