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In the TV dramas of the Qing Dynasty, whenever a great traitor or evil person is ambushed, there is often a word of encouragement coming out? Launching the beheading at the Noon Gate? , rendering the atmosphere of evil being rewarded with evil to the fullest.

This launched after the noon gate, the ending is there to execute the end, is the title said? The marketplace? , a place near the inner city of Beijing. As for why this place is called ? Cai Shi Kou?

When there were no prisoners being executed, a large number of vegetable farmers from outside the city were gathered here, while the noble families in the city were wandering around slowly, buying this and that. For a while, it was a big place. Vegetable Market? is the traffic flow, become one of the most lively places in Beijing.

This bustle is rumored to have begun in the Ming Dynasty, so?

This bustle is said to have begun in the Ming Dynasty, so the name "Cai Shi Kou" originates from the Ming Dynasty. The name of this place is derived from the Ming Dynasty, and before the Ming Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, this place was called "Cai Shi Kou" for a long time because it was more of a firewood seller. Cai Shi Kou? According to legend, Wen Tianxiang, a loyal official of the Song Dynasty, ended his life here because he did not want to submit to the Mongols, and was probably the first person to die here. Caishikou? may have been the first person to be executed in Cai Shi Kou.

After the Qing Dynasty overthrew the Ming Dynasty, because they needed a place to execute the condemned, and taking into account their own need to avoid taboo, they did not want to use the Xisi Pailou, a common execution site for the condemned in the Ming Dynasty, and so they decided on a location? Cai Shi Kou? It was from this moment on that the name "Cai Shi Kou" (菜市口) came into being. Cai Shi Kou? was given a special function by the government.

According to the "Beiping Travel Guide" written by Ma Zhiyang in the Republic of China, whenever a person was to be executed in the autumn, the official in charge of the execution would bring the prisoner out of the death penalty prison with his belongings, go out of Xuanwumen (Shuncheng Gate), cross the Guillotine Bridge, pass through the Maze Market, and finally arrive at Caishikou. Caishikou?

It is worth mentioning that, in this prison to the execution ground on the road, there is an interesting difference in treatment, there are still people at home and the family has a lot of money, or itself for the high-powered people, you can enjoy on the road to enjoy the ?VIP treatment to sit in the prison car. On the contrary, no power, no money, no one at home, can only wear shackles on the shackles to walk through the last ride of their lives.

After arriving at the execution ground, the prisoners were arranged from east to west, the executioner held the knife from east to west in order to decapitate, after the execution was completed, the decapitated person's head will be hung in the ? The head of the decapitated person would be hung at the entrance of the marketplace. for a long period of time, allowing people to observe.

As for why the Qing Dynasty chose to use Caishikou as a place of execution, it was all about that? The hot and bustling? The trouble with it. The purpose of public execution of prisoners in ancient times was not only to punish them, but also to warn others.

In order to achieve the purpose of warning, it is necessary to have a lot of people gathered around, otherwise it would be a waste of the act itself. In this way, a large number of people naturally gathered, and these people are all civilians of the ? The food market entrance? became the best choice.

And from the results of the implementation of the point of view, not to say how many people were warned, in this purpose of increasing the number of spectators, the effect of this choice is very good, whenever there is a notice posted, to start beheading the death row prisoners, ? The entrance to the marketplace? would always be mobbed.

Many people see the beheading of others as such a cruel and bloody thing for their own amusement, and the thrill of all that fresh blood is the same as the thrill we get from watching horror movies nowadays. Say? Perversion? , again, is what our dark side needs? something?

So if you can travel back in time to the Qing Dynasty and witness? the beheading of a man in the marketplace? beheadings, and see people kowtowing to melons, it wouldn't even be surprising at all.