Therefore, this kind of whip is called static whip or clean whip, which is woven with yellow silk and the tip of the whip is waxed. This whip is more than ten meters long, the handle is about thirty centimeters long, and it is engraved with a faucet.
Flogging is one of the rituals of the emperor. It makes noise and makes people quiet. This ceremony is not only held in the court on weekdays, but also in major court meetings and when the new emperor ascended the throne.
The flogging ceremony existed before the Qing Dynasty, and it was one of the manifestations of China's feudal monarchy.
At present, the earliest record of the flogging ceremony is that Gao Cheng wrote in the Origin of Things in the Song Dynasty: "Flogging was found in the Tang and Five Dynasties." It means that flogging existed in the Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, but no records have been found at present.
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During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the flogging ceremony was the most prosperous. In the Ming dynasty, there were four people at a large-scale court meeting, standing around in the north. The four men asked to raise their hands together, and the whip should not be too long, because their voices could not be thrown together.
The whole process of flogging ceremony of Qing emperor;
According to the records of the sixty-three rites and seven rites (Jiali I) in the Draft of Qing History, every time the Qing Dynasty "went to court" eight years after Kangxi, there were two "flogging".
First, when the emperor came out of Zhonghe Hall and arrived at Taiji Hall (Golden Hall), the ceremonial soldiers shouted "Whip!" Then the whip of the net sounded three times, and the ministers made "three kneels and nine knocks" and shouted "Long live, long live, long live".
Another time, after the performance in the early morning, the net whip rang three times, and the emperor returned to the palace by bus, and the ministers knelt down to see him off. These three clean whips are operated by one person, and the sound height must be guaranteed. .
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