That is not just a scholar but administration department to remind the Emperor of servicing the citizens in an act of Confucianism.

In almost every dynasty, there was an administrative department responsible for criticizing and making suggestions to the emperor. In the Song Dynasty, scholars also won the gold medal of avoiding death, and the emperor could not kill them because of their remarks.

as old saying goes, emperor and scholar rule the court together. emperor actually dont have much power on decision making. he usually just pick decision made by scholars who discuss them on court.

The fact that Chinese culture respected scholarship to that degree is pretty cool

However, many Chinese people believe that the excessive openness of bureaucratic rhetoric during the Song and Ming dynasties was the reason for China's decline, as party disputes during the Ming dynasty severely affected the government's governance capacity and made it difficult for the central government to collect taxes from those who were wealthy and powerful. Taxes were imposed on the poor, resulting in government deficits and peasant uprisings. And these two dynasties were eliminated by foreign tribes, while the other Chinese dynasties declined due to their own military rebellions. Therefore, people believed that the previous dynasties were destroyed due to their own strength, while the later dynasties were destroyed due to their own weakness. The reason for China's transformation towards a literati state was because at that time, the military generals within the empire posed a greater threat than external enemies.

I was wondering the reason why, thank you

Kinda similar situation in India for cow reverence

Cows are also not native to China so they had to be imported originally

This!. I remember reading a Chinese novel. They buy beef illegally with a high price for celebrations😂😂. Even mutton meat cheaper than beef.

@@subhadramahanta452im pretty sure its more of a religion thing in india no?

There's this saying I always find in C dramas "Rather kill a thousand innocents than let the culprit go" this is not accurate, but something like this

And now, too. Nowadays, if you're white, you're automatically become a racist.

That's the inquisitorial system and is still used today, e.g. in Japan

We say "Innocent until proven guilty" but no one who is truly deemed innocent should sit in jail for days to months till trial; thus, it is still true here in USA today.

not just controversial, stupid. there's a reason it's the opposite nowadays.

same LMAFAO

Me too 😅

Fun fact: Some of the filming staff getting sick after kim go eun as the shaman performed the bloody ritual scene.

@@byssmal"fun fact"

@@Jaydesque Some called it "fun" or "not so fun"

Reminded me of some Indonesian horror movies, that they often choose real haunted places and did true rituals, so sometimes actors and crews got possessed for real. So there's always exorcist/ shaman on standby.

​@@byssmalthe shaman said they did the ritual perfectly and the actor who did most of the chant can be hunted by a spirit and its the guy actor iirc. Plus id like to speak of why the chinese netizens are angry of a show that is NOT from their country and NOT from their culture.

It was a crime because it was seen as wasteful and decadent. Likewise, serving beef meant slaughtering cows and bulls that were needed for manual farm labour. That's why the ancient Chinese rarely ate beef.

@@eliu868 interesting, how do you know this? I am willing to bet the rich ate meat whenever they wanted

@@pn5368 no slaughter on ox, its a law every dynasty enforces, even my parents used to strictly prohibit them and me eating beef when i was younge, but we eat beef now a day. but cows dies with age/natural cause is okay to be eaten, but will require owner to file a report before slaughter. and yes, due to this law, beef is rare and expensive. rich ppl dont care, they have money for it they can order beef from the other side of earth XD.

I think the issue really is about annoying the neighbours by the noise they might cause.

@@eliu868Why is it wasteful to eat a meal with many people?

Depends on the source, like if it's from Squid Ink, Octopus Ink, Charcoal or Ash or other type of Stone. You can literally use Squid or Octopus Ink in cooking. Many people go to Fish Markets to buy Squid Ink for Pasta, too!

Ink used for writing in East Asia typically is composed of just soot and glue, then molded into sticks that you dissolve by rubbing a bit of water with it on an ink stone. Makes me wonder if the people being punished are made to grind their own ink till they get a whole jug for them to drink.

​@@TaLeng2023I am going to honest this sounds like a fake punishment or a punishment that was never conducted. A liter is a lot of ink.

@@penguinpingu3807 true, those ink stones don't ever have more than a shot glass of ink in them. And from what I know, they don't use premade liquid ink, you have to grind your own ink whenever you want to write.

yeah, no factory chemical. Pure 100% Squid milk.

from what I know, he's a blind musician and can't tell when a ghost general asks him to play for a court of ghosts every night, but once the other monks found out, they wrote sutras everywhere except the ears, so the sutra made the body invisible to the ghosts but not the ears, so the ghost ripped them off as proof that he had really gone there.

The tale of Earless Hoichi! He was actually a blind biwa player who inadvertently performed and sang for the spirits of the defeated Taira clan, and they were so astounded by his talent that they decided to abduct and keep him. The monks that he roomed with wrote sutras on Hoichi's whole body, but they forgot the ears, so when the spirit tasked with picking Hoichi up appeared, all he could see was a pair of ears floating in the air. He ripped Hoichi's ears off to show his master that he tried to complete his task, and the monks found the poor guy bloodied and on the floor. He did become famous after that, so, silver linings, I guess :)

so the drama was "inspired" by japanese culture?

Yeah it was also taken in the movie called "kaiden" look it up.

some of Qin's laws are pretty modern so some conspiracy enthusiasts believed Qin shi huang is a time traveler.

Probably both at one point people back then were very ruthless

That was a punishment in China 2000 years ago. The punishment was called 烹， which literally means cooking. Talking about ancient China, some people only think about the medieval ages. However, 2000 years ago was the time when Romans were fighting tribes in today's France...

i think it happens very often during shan dynasty (1600-1046 BC ) during that time, ppl still do human sacrifice, so boiling human is like regularly done. i think thats one of the reason zhou dynasty took over and stopped human sacrifice once for all

That's crazy. I even heard about rats eating you alive. I wonder what kind of mistake would warrant such​@@redhongkong

In Europe too back then.

gotta bring up the story that they tried to register chinese characters as theirs and got rejected.

Well this is ancient times.Human lifes not considered really special because of death is very common thing at that time

So... what about the cruel punishment and treatments they do against their own people nodays? In 2024... even worse in my opinion when we should.. you know... have gotten so much better ?

@@NathalieCwiekSwiercz a lot better. they punish the uighurs and tibetan by not allowing them to be subjects of "modern day human zoo", the uighurs and tibetan are forced to adapt the common lifestyle other people living in 21st century have now, instead of the life living in a real life "human zoo" with ancient looking props and setups. The latter might earn some money just by doing nothing and maintaining the old practices, the former they will have to go to schools and colleges and then join the workforce. Very draining.

I would guess someone's birthday is a good reason to host a party but who knows?

In ancient China, oxen were draft animals vital to agricultural production so if one killed an ox just to eat its beef, then it's a severely punishable offense since they were taking away people's livelihood just to satisfy their appetite. (It’s kind of like destroying someone's business.)

@@thaothelazycat930 Ohh, got it! Thanks!

til this day, beef is still on the lower end of "feed to food " conversion efficiency. It costs a lot of feed, water and put out more waste to produce a pound of beef, compared to mutton or other poultry options of the same weight

This is why I freaking HATE Western media. For the last time, they DON'T. The government actually works for its people.

“Ruyi’s Royal Love in the Palace” was used in a couple of clips. She was an Empress who was erased from history because she cut her hair.

She didn't say anyone was offended. It's more like people were amused.

Why you fellows so easily offended over petty things.

YES! Like tell me about the craziest MODERNDAY CHINA punishments..😂

cause beef is a expensive meat (expensive because it has low feed to food conversion rate). Its very inefficient to produce beef and if eating beef is 'on trend' many more famines would have happened. this is why places that had banned beef in the past are often having bigger population today. the feed, field to grow feed for cows, space and time needed to farm cows for beef is enough to make more crop fields and produce more chickens, ducks, and even pork. And so naturally only the rich can afford beef and because they CAN PAY, its likely that a lot of the middle class will find ways to farm cows for beef. E.g. Buying fields to grow cows' feed, buying human food to feed cows. You dont even need 5 years to induce famine. So what if a cow brings in 1000 silver after a few years when there isnt much food left to buy in the market?

@@user-yj8zw7hk6f oh ok. Thank you

Koreans always feel so sensitive over everything. Everything seemingly needed to be defended. Sp petty !

she said stirred controversy, can't you read

@@guaguatengteng Isn't it's the same? Chinese netizen hate this movie and everything about south Korea.

@@byssmal Just like Koreans traced many roots of their culture to the Chinese origin really irritates them.

@@byssmal stirred controversy is not the same as offended.... how can you equate those two...🙄

That's how you know the level of barbarian others were at...Even old China couldn't stand them.

that's why China isn't filled with promiscuous people or failed marriages and multiple divorcées

China literally has nothing like this anymore And ridiculous punishments used to exist in western countries too

​@@masterdeetectiv9520and still do

@@masterdeetectiv9520true that. Our ancestors literally used to set people on fire because they said something bad about the Bible

Did you read rhe old Testament which is 90% of the bible.

nah