Hàn Wéndì fèichú le gē bízi, kǎn jiǎo zhèyàng de ròuxíng.
Emperor Wen of Han abolished mutilating punishments such as cutting off the nose or the feet.
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In 167 BC 汉文帝 abolished tattooing, cutting off the nose and cutting off the feet, moved by a girl named 缇萦 who offered to become a government slave to spare her father. Castration, 宫刑, lived on: 司马迁 suffered it some seventy years later.
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Corporal punishment in the modern sense, such as hitting pupils, is 体罚.
