"Zuo Gong Six Years": "Zhou chaotic politics, nine punishments." Zhao Wei pointed out: "It means five punishments, including mobility, redemption, flogging and pouncing". Jimo, Mo, Mo, Gong and Da Bi, plus Liu, Qian, Whip and Puppy, make a total of nine. Du You's General Code says that the nine punishments are Mo Yi, Moore, Mo San, Gong Si, Da Wu Bi, Liu Liu, Qian Qi, Bian Ba and Pu Jiu.

2. Nine punishments are the general name of written punishment books in the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the book is divided into nine articles.

Nine punishments basically followed the five punishments system of Shang Dynasty (Mo, Mo, Mo, Gong and Da), and added four punishments, such as redemption, flogging, slapping and drifting, which were called the Nine Punishment of Western Zhou Dynasty. Nine punishments appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty, or they were thought to be written by the Duke of Zhou, or nine punishments of ink, silence, palace, gouging out, killing, fleeing, redemption, whipping and pouncing.

Formulation of nine kinds of penalties

The Western Zhou Dynasty formulated nine punishments on the basis of Yu punishment and Tang punishment. The main content of the nine punishments is to severely punish those so-called "thieves" and "thieves" and safeguard the basic laws of slavery and the fundamental interests of slave owners and nobles.

According to "Lu Punishment in Shangshu", there were five kinds of punishments in the Zhou Dynasty, namely ink punishment (tattooing on the face), licking punishment (cutting off the nose), gouging out punishment (cutting off the foot), palace punishment (castrating the male and imprisoning the female) and monarch punishment (beheading). In addition, there are flogging and exile. There are 3000 laws that stipulate five sentences.

In the middle of the Western Zhou Dynasty, it was a good example to record the litigation between fathers and send their subordinate representatives to court to win the case. Ming Ding also described that in a famine year, Kuang Jia and twenty slaves stole ten grains of grain and sued. In Kuang Ji, seven fields and five people were compensated and five people became slaves. This case shows that the purpose of the law at that time was to maintain all slavery relations.

There were strict punishments in the Zhou Dynasty. "Courtesy is no less than that of Shu Ren, and punishment is no less than that of a doctor.". Zhou Li is based on the patriarchal clan system formed under the patriarchal social system, and is used to mediate and adjust the contradictions and relations within the ruling class. Punishment is used to control and suppress civilians, including death penalty, ink punishment, exile punishment, flogging, redemption and a whole set of litigation and trial systems.