The ancient wanted warrants are so abstract, why can criminals still be caught?

Relying only on the abstract portrait on the wanted post, the chances of catching someone are still very small, unless the criminal has very obvious facial features. When arresting a criminal, you should not only look at the appearance characteristics, but also look at the name and place of origin on the wanted notice.

In most of the ancient period, the armor protection system or the joint sitting system was implemented, and if the criminals were hidden, the whole family or the whole village would suffer. So as long as you put the wanted notice on the wall, and the people around you look at the name and address, plus that abstract portrait, it is easy to lock up a certain criminal, and then go directly to the police.

This is a local criminal, if a criminal from other places absconded to a strange place, no one knows him, can't he be caught with just a wanted warrant? In fact, on the contrary, such criminals are more likely to be caught.

In ancient times, transportation was not very developed, a person may stay in one place for a lifetime, people outside the village are very familiar, and a person who does not know appears in the village, the whole village will be very vigilant. If there happens to be a wanted warrant at this time, these people will check the wanted warrant to see if the person has anything in common with the person in the portrait, such as beard, hair, etc.

If it is very similar, the villagers will continue to choose to inform the government, and the government will check the person's guide, that is, the pass, in ancient times, if a person wants to go to other places, he must have this guide, if not, he will be treated as an escaped prisoner, and then imprisoned.

Therefore, fugitives rarely flee to other places, and even if they dare to flee to other places, they do not dare to appear in the crowd, so they can only live in the wilderness.

At that time, wanted warrants would have high bounties, so when strange people appeared, they would be noticed, and even if they were drawn abstractly, they would be recognized.

The wanted warrant contains a portrait of the offender, as well as the characteristics of the offender and the crime he has committed, and a certain reward is attached to the report and expose. In the armor protection system, a stranger comes to a certain place, and if it is a criminal but no one reports it, he will be punished locally. Lu Yin, identification must be required when staying in the hotel, and curfews were implemented in ancient times.

In ancient times, criminals were caught at intersections, and generally these criminals did not have passes, and these would be arrested.

The environment of ancient times was closed, and strangers came to a small place, and the surroundings would know. Moreover, in ancient times, there were fast catchers and informants, and their duty was to arrest criminals.

Because of the need to strictly arrest criminals, inspectors will be set up at various passes, and in ancient times, when going out, they needed road guides, and without road guides, they would be strictly interrogated by the officers and soldiers guarding the city.

In fact, the ancient paintings are still very level, as long as you can draw the biggest characteristics of this person, plus the investigation, it is still very likely to be caught.

Because of the underdeveloped transportation in ancient times, it was difficult for prisoners to escape to territories that did not belong to the emperor, and in various places, there were many arrests and servants, which could help the imperial court catch wanted criminals.

In ancient times, when you go out, you need a road guide, and if you don't have a road guide, you will be arrested by the officers and soldiers guarding the city; In addition, if the criminal flees to other places, it is a new face to the locals, and it will be reported to the government.

The main reason is that the ancient area is relatively closed, the area is small, and the population is small, so once there are outsiders or people on the portrait, it can be easily recognized, and the city gate is also guarded.

When we watch TV, we often see a plot: the government will put up a list at the city gate to list the wanted criminals, and a group of melon-eating people will watch from the sidelines, and the offender will quietly retreat and leave wearing a hat. So, someone has to ask, can you catch someone just by the portrait on the picture?

If the painter is of a high level, he may be painting something similar to himself, but if the skills are average, I am afraid that I am not sure if I take the picture and compare it with the prisoner in person, right? Not really.

First of all, the population movement in ancient times was not large, and most people lived in one place all their lives and would not leave, which is the most critical issue. Just like some friends' hometowns are in a more remote rural area, you occasionally go back to visit relatives, it only takes a morning, and the whole village knows that you are back, in the same way, in ancient times, as long as people wander here, everyone will know that they have a stranger here.

Secondly, in ancient times, there was a very strict identity system, and those who are familiar with history know how Shang Ying died, Qin Huiwenjun wanted to arrest Shang Ying, Shang Ying fled to the border, and he could not provide proof of identity when he stayed in the hotel, and the Hakka did not dare to stay overnight, and this policy was originally set by himself. It can be seen that the identity system was still like this in the Qin period, and it will only be more perfect in later dynasties.

Again, in ancient times, there was a very strict system of alleys, streets and alleys, and a system of protecting the armor, taking the armor protection system as an example, with the household as the unit, ten households as one first, and ten households as one guarantee. The household has a head of household, A has a chief, and there is a security chief, and if something goes wrong, there is joint and several responsibility, such a strict household registration management system, do you think that no one will pay attention to a stranger in their jurisdiction?

Moreover, the "wanted notice" painted by the ancient government is mainly to remind the people, so that everyone can know what happened. Because in ancient times, the transmission of information could only be carried out from person to person. And a wanted one was posted, and a group of people went to see it, and the literate people still read it.

Now everyone knows what is going on, and then ferments and spreads widely, further compressing the living space of criminals.

To sum up, as long as the prisoners in the list are basically clearly described, even if they don't need to look at the portraits, as long as they appear in a place where there are residents, they will attract attention, and as long as the descriptions match, someone will immediately report to the police and arrest them.

Because people in ancient times had their own characteristics, some people may have scars on their faces, some people have big beards, or they have some accessories with them, and they use these characteristics to catch prisoners.

Because the features are obvious. The ancient wanted warrant, although not as detailed as **, has obvious characteristics and is easy to see.

The abstract paintings you see are all in costume film and television dramas. The actual ancient portrait may be much more detailed than in the costume drama, and the arrest is not a fool, and after remembering some characteristics, he can also lock on the suspect, and if he can't do it, he can be brought back for interrogation.

Personally, I think it was very difficult for the fugitives to survive alone, and there was also the fact that the government gave people a lot of bounties for examples, and in order to get the bounty, people would report to the government as long as they met this person, and so on.

Although the portraits of the ancient wanted warrants are not like them, they will depict the characteristics of the fugitive, so that people can see it, so as to catch the fugitive.

In ancient times, as long as the information on the wanted warrant was met, the government would catch and question them, and set up layers of checkpoints, so that the prisoner had nowhere to escape.

In ancient times, people basically didn't go out of the village, and they all knew who came from a village, and if there was a stranger Qingzai, plus a notice, they would go to the government to report it.

Information transportation in ancient China was relatively not too developed, so after the crime in ancient times, it was a troublesome matter for the government to arrest it, but in ancient China, thousands of years, there was generally no large-scale social unrest? The relationship between criminals and the government has always been handled peacefully, so why was it not difficult to capture fugitives in ancient times?

In ancient times, criminals generally did not flee, and there were many criminals who fled, once they chose to flee, then the imperial court would generally issue a wanted warrant, and for a while, the "propaganda board" outside the city should be plastered with notices, which I believe many people can see in film and television dramas. In the ** film and television drama, it should have also been found that in addition to the correct description of the suspects on the so-called wanted notices, their portraits are basically coping with coping, and there are even masked portraits.

So why is it that the ancient wanted warrants don't look like anything like them, and the criminals end up with nowhere to escape? Actually, the reason is very simple:

1. Although the portrait cannot be seen, according to the description of the suspect's obvious characteristics, if the suspect is encountered, then the obvious personal characteristics will come in handy, and the suspect may be locked up;

Second, in ancient times, most of the joint sitting system was practiced, and under the strict situation of the joint sitting system, the family members of criminal suspects would not only be implicated, but even the neighbors would be implicated, and the neighbors would not be as protective as their family members, so they would do their best to find out the criminal suspects.

Third, in ancient times, there was also an "ID card", and the ancient officials would also issue individuals with degrees, road guides and other things to verify their identity. You must know that Shang Ying, who formulated these, also did not dare to live in the store because he did not bring a degree, and he did not escape in the end. If they do not stay in the city and choose to hide in the countryside, they are usually reported after they are discovered.

It's like what happened on TV: if the accent is not a local, then if there is no proof of identity, there is a good chance that the store will report to the official.

Fourth, although the picture on the wanted warrant is relatively ugly, according to various clues, the probability of the suspect being found is still relatively large, unless he goes into the deep mountains and old forests to live alone, he may not be arrested for the rest of his life. If they want to enter the city, they are discovered, but some people are scrambling to report it, because there are often bounties on the wanted warrants, and sometimes there will be heavy rewards, and I believe that ordinary people will also report the suspects with these bounties.

Therefore, in ancient times, although the transportation was inconvenient and the information was not accessible, but the fact of the crime was established, even if it was to escape, it was not a simple matter to escape from ancient China, and it was indeed not a simple matter to be able to commit a crime and get away with it.