When watching costume dramas, it is often seen that the emperor wants to behead a criminal, and he will say "drag out the meridian gate to behead", and the meridian gate is just south. Because suffocation is heavy, most people can't use the due south direction. As long as they deviate from the due south direction, suffocation is not so heavy.
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