? First, an extremely cruel and vicious punishment? Before "riding a donkey", the punishment was riding a parade. According to records, in Zheng Guangyuan, Meng Changjun, a woman who was punished for parading in public happened to meet a talented person who passed the scientific examination. A gifted scholar rides a stallion while a woman rides a mare. Two horses met and refused to leave. The scene is very embarrassing. After that, there is no need to punish the punished woman with real horses.
? In the Northern Zhou Dynasty, officials asked carpenters to make wooden horses specially. There were sharp spikes on the horses, so they were also called spurs. Officials tied women naked to wooden horses, let sharp nails pierce women's nakedness and marched in the street. Onlookers threw stones and spat.
? Later, someone changed the wooden horse into a wooden donkey, and there was a saying of "riding a wooden donkey". The so-called "riding a wooden donkey" is to erect a stake on the back of the donkey, which is similar to the front of the donkey, and let the woman ride it and insert the stake below, so as to humiliate and hurt the woman. What's more, there was a kind of wooden donkey in Qing Dynasty. Conductors are installed inside the four wooden wheels below. As soon as the wheel turns, the stake goes into a woman's lower body and is often killed. "Riding a donkey" was originally a tool to humiliate people and achieve the purpose of punishment, but it turned out to be a torture device to kill people!
? This is really a cruel and vicious means!
? Second, how cruel is it from the description in literary works? 1. "Water Margin" wrote "Riding a donkey" in the 27th chapter:
? Take Wang Po out of prison and take orders from the hall. After reading the surrender of the imperial court, he wrote a guilty card and drew a crouch. Then he pushed the woman (that is, Wang Po) onto a wooden donkey, nailed her to death with four lengths and tied her with three ropes. Dongping magistrate sentenced the word "chop" and held out the strip. Two broken gongs, one broken gong. Offenders are led from the front and urged after mixing sticks. Raise two sharp knives, shake off a paper flower, take it to Dongping mansion and eat it.
? Wang Po conspired with Ximen Qing and Pan Jinlian to kill Wu Dalang and was sentenced to death. At the same time, he was punished for riding a donkey. The so-called "pushing the donkey" means pushing the donkey.
In fact, riding a donkey is not a "punishment", but an "additional punishment", which is usually added by the local government after the approval of the Ministry of Justice, and some people add it out of indignation. This kind of punishment is generally only used for female prisoners such as "killing their husbands". Someone joked that Pan Jinlian might have been punished if he hadn't been killed by Song Wu.
Wang Po was sentenced to capital punishment and the additional punishment of "riding a donkey". Although she didn't "murder her husband", she participated in this kind of behavior, so she received such an additional punishment.
? 2. Description in the short story Pretty Girl:
? On the day when the beautiful girl rode the donkey, almost all the people in the ancient temple town went out, because many young people had never even heard of such torture.
? That day, the beautiful girl was tied up and rode on a donkey. ...
? At Mao Lao's command, someone led the donkey and began to March on the beautiful girl. The gravel road in the town is bumpy, and the donkey walks slowly, but if it walks fast, it shakes badly. If the two men on both sides of the donkey were circuitous in order to prevent the beautiful girl from falling, they whipped the donkey several times. As soon as the donkey shook its hoof, the beautiful girl screamed, and soon there was blood flowing down below.
? This was written by contemporary writers in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the pretty girl was sentenced to "riding a donkey" on suspicion of "stealing people" and was dismembered to death. It turned out that she was wronged.