In ancient times, after being captured by the government, many women had only one idea in their hearts, that is, to commit suicide first, because they would rather die than be tried in court, let alone be put in prison.
We can learn about the tragic experience of women in prison at that time from the relevant film and television dramas. Because in ancient times, the requirements for women were very high, just as chastity was one aspect, and it was common for these women to be regarded as unclean women and humiliated by prison guards after being imprisoned. Despite the resistance of these women. At that time, the female prisoners were humiliated and the court turned a blind eye. Once in prison, life is worse than death.
The earliest prisons appeared in the Western Zhou Dynasty. At that time, the prison facilities were simple, and there were no separate male and female prisons. Both men and women are mixed, and the treatment is basically the same. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, men and women were separated. However, the reason why men and women are held separately is not because there are differences between men and women, but to meet the needs of officers and men with female prisoners. In the Song Dynasty, the treatment of female prisoners was even worse. The torture suffered is several times that of male prisoners, and there are many penalties specifically for torturing women.
One of them rode a wooden donkey. This criminal law was not only physical destruction for women at that time, but also mental torture and humiliation for women at that time. Thorns are also used in the process of wandering the streets. That is, the "mixed stick" written in "Water Margin" whipped the female prisoner on her back and made her shout, "I am an adulteress who murdered my husband. Come and see my fate! " The whole public procedure will come to an end.
In addition to riding wooden donkeys, there were also punishments for women at that time. As the name implies, criminal law is to hit a woman in the abdomen. When these women were tortured, their limbs were separated and tied into a "big" shape, and then they were beaten on the abdomen with wooden sticks. The result is often uterine rupture and internal organs fragmentation. This is a traditional torture in China, which is specially used to deal with women who "have an affair" and "kill their husbands". It fully embodies the cruel destruction of the male-dominated society and the male-dominated society to women who "don't keep women's morality".