A Textual Research on the Left Preference in Inflicting Corporal Punishment

摘要

In ancient society, people gradually endowed left and right with abundant social connotations, linked left and right concepts with hierarchical system, and left or right concepts often affected people's social status, and then extended to other areas of society. In ancient criminal law, the phenomenon of "the name of punishment is left" is just the product of "the left" thought. This paper attempts to explore the basis of this phenomenon and its cultural significance from the perspective of the origin of Leftist ideology and labor demand.