Copyright: Turandot.2005

ID: 251
Ressource_Provider: Miss Turandot
Title: Bed: prisoners
DocumentNature: Watercolor
Size_x: 25,5 cm
Size_y: 33,1 cm
Repository: Turandot
Page_number: 22
Color: Hand-tinted
Caption: 此中國睡編床之圖也京中刑部有此私刑因犯罪人入衙之時營嶽差人要向犯人使錢用此編床將犯人放于編床花鐵若干方能脫刑
This is the picture of Chinese bed to sleep in row. The Board of Punishment use it as unofficial punishment, when criminals enters the service, the (yingyue??) jailers want to extort money from the prisoners and thus submit them to this "row bed. Those who pay escape this punishment".
Topic: Benches, beds and barrels
Description: That this device, severely proscribed in the huidian, was used in the very core of the judicial system, the Board of Punishment, is an interesting information, unfortunately unchecked.
Keyword: row bed; prisoner; guard

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