In ancient times, was it necessary to take off your shirt when beheading a female prisoner?

In some ancient materials, it can be seen that the law at that time stipulated that female prisoners must take off their shirts when beheading. When a princess or princess was beheaded in violation of the law, the supervisor was very embarrassed, so he opened the princess's collar. , until the nipples are exposed, is this really the case? What is the reason? Emperor Xiaowen of the Northern Wei Dynasty had such a reform measure: the abolition of the regulation of beheading in the nude. For a long time, in the Northern Wei Dynasty, prisoners were required to expose their upper bodies when executing beheadings. Although there was a provision of "hanging the dead", beheading was still a common punishment. Emperor Xiaowen believed: "The reason why the criminal law prohibits violence and punishes rape is to prevent the naked form of life." He also issued an edict: "The people should be controlled by Hua Mu, not by severe punishment. Although the prevention is severe, the number of people who are trapped will be serious. Today, if you violate the law, you will be punished until death. When they are executed together and stripped of their clothes, men and women are exposed to the law, but they are treated with courtesy. "In this way, the person who is killed will not be ashamed of being naked, and at the same time he will not be tainted by the customs. The edict of the first year of Taihe said: The punishment is to prohibit violence, rape, rape and death, but not in the naked body (the story is about beheading the person, lying in the body of the deceased and hanging, although there is no law.) He consulted the old laws and followed the lenient Situ Yuanpi They report that the mercy of the Holy Heart saves the victims from the pain of being naked. The whole world is grateful for the kindness and misfortune. The ministers sincerely discuss the great rebellion and the thieves will abandon the market and behead the thieves, and the officials will be hanged and go to the various masters. Another edict said: "The people of Yao were transformed and Mu Fei was prevented by severe punishment. Although the situation was serious, it was even more serious that now they broke the law and were sentenced to death together with beheading, stripping off their clothes and having sex with men and women. How can they be seen to be in harmony with the law and to show etiquette?" "Cefu Yuan Gui Juan 611 Criminal Law Department·Law Decree No. 3" In the past, for the convenience of execution, ancient male prisoners usually took off their shirts when performing beheadings, but I don't know when it started, even female prisoners were required to be beheaded. It is impossible to verify when this rule of taking off one's clothes began. Since taking off one's clothes and being beheaded is different from taking off one's clothes and receiving a cane, it is only an "additional punishment." It may be that the government thought it was effective, so it became a common practice. Therefore, not all female prisoners will be stripped of their clothes during beheadings, and some female prisoners with status will ask the government to remain undressed and be tortured, and if allowed, they will be spared. , Qiu Jin is an example. In addition, some female prisoners were completely stripped and then beheaded. This is an extreme example and the number is extremely small. It’s also unknown when people began to believe that human blood steamed buns can cure diseases, and they must be the blood of executed prisoners. It is even derived that the flesh of executed prisoners also has healing effects, and even the ropes used to tie prisoners have inexplicable and mysterious properties. role. Even female prisoners are no exception to this. After their heads were chopped off, a group of people also handed steamed buns to the executioner. Some people came up to cut the flesh on the corpses left on the execution ground. It is true that there is no peace after death. One of the official punishments for a woman who had an affair was dismemberment. This was another type of death penalty that served to additionally humiliate the female prisoner. Before the execution, the female prisoner must first be stripped of her clothes. The executioner would grab the female prisoner’s left breast with one hand and lift it up. The knife was used to cut into the heart, and the surrounding muscles were cut away until the heart was exposed, and then the heart was dug out with the knife. You can imagine that the prisoner suffered unbearable severe pain during the entire process.