The ancient prisoners were all rough self portraits, how did they get caught?

In costume TV dramas, we often see the heads of some prisoners sticking to the walls. From our current perspective, it is impossible to see who these portraits are, but the ancients could recognize them.

In ancient times, if a person made a mistake and escaped, the government would first ask the arrester to get the suspect's appearance characteristics from the neighbors or people who knew the prisoner, and then go back and describe it to the painter, and finally the official painter would draw a simple portrait of the prisoner according to the characteristics of the prisoner described, and then post it on the walls everywhere, and then use it to arrest the prisoner. However, because these portraits are relatively rough and sometimes very different from the real appearance of the prisoners, it seems that they are not the same person at all, so they often catch the wrong person. Because when people dictate, they can only describe the important characteristics of a person, and it is impossible to describe them in detail, so it gives the painters in the government a big problem.

These painters could only try their best to paint the portrait to resemble the prisoner, but even so, the final portrait was very different from the prisoner, and the chance of catching the prisoner was very small if the government caught him.

Once the prisoner is ordinary-looking and does not have any unique features to show on the surface, then the portrait drawn is no different from that of an ordinary person on the street. However, in ancient times, there would be a bounty on the portrait, and many people would carefully remember the appearance of the prisoner in order to get the money, and once they met someone similar to the portrait, these people would be reported to the government by the people, and then arrested. In addition, in ancient times, there was also an identity certificate, and when you go out of the city and enter the city, you have to check your identity, so it is easy to find the prisoner.

Because of these reward systems, even in ancient times when technology was backward, the portraits of prisoners were crudely painted, but prisoners were still caught.

Although the appearance of the prisoner on the portrait is very inaccurate, but the portrait or next to the reward is often pasted, many people will carefully ** the portrait of the prisoner, and remember the description of the prisoner on the portrait and the most unique characteristics, and this often makes the prisoner recognized by the people, and reported to the government, and then arrested.

The portraits of the prisoners were painted by painters dedicated to the government. Because for those who help chase down criminals, it is better to kill by mistake than to let go, so it doesn't matter if you catch a mistake.

Self-portraits depict the physical features of the suspects, and in the previous law, there was a system of joint sitting, that is, if one person committed a crime, the entire village would be implicated. Therefore, in order to avoid the crime of harboring, even if it is a neighbor or something, if you find a suspect, you will report it directly.

Although the self-portraits of ancient prisoners are very rough, the characteristics will be drawn in more detail, and the ancient prisoners will be examined in detail when they see similar people.

Although the self-portraits of the ancient prisoners are quite inaccurate, they still draw a lot of features, so they can still help solve the case to a certain extent.

Although these rough portraits are not so accurate, they can sometimes play a certain role, and they can still make it easier for the government to arrest people.

In ancient times, it was difficult to find prisoners by self-portraits, and it was usually a bounty or an important checkpoint at an intersection to catch a suspicious person.

Patrolling soldiers often raid pedestrians on the road, and if they don't have identification, they are immediately arrested at the government office. Therefore, when a criminal escapes from a crime, the whole country will be wanted, and unless the prisoner can obtain a high-quality identity certificate, they will not be able to escape the pursuit of the government.

Ancient information was blocked, and if someone came to a new place, they would be immediately discovered. Moreover, in ancient times, there were special officials to arrest prisoners.

First, there will be a reward for the prisoners, which prompts the people to actively participate in this matter. Second, the patrolling soldiers will raid the pedestrians on the road, and if they do not have identification, they will be immediately arrested in the government.

In ancient times, they actually had ID cards, and many of them had their identities on the record with the government, so the official uniform could issue a wanted warrant and catch the criminal.

In ancient times, there was no more effective way to arrest criminals than portraits, because the technology of ancient criminal investigation was relatively backward, and it was only possible to rely on the method of painting portraits to arrest criminals.

There is no more effective way to do this than to paint a portrait. Because transportation and information were not particularly developed in ancient times, they could only be done in this way.

Personally, I think it's a bounty, as long as the bounty is given enough, then people's enthusiasm is big enough, and so on.

First of all, because in ancient times, there was a system of armor protection and household registration management, as long as someone committed a crime, the government would post a portrait of the prisoner, and then other people in the place where the prisoner lived all the year round would help the government provide clues; Secondly, the portraits of prisoners in ancient times were not only portraits, but also the basic information of prisoners and the amount of rewards, ranging from 100 taels to 1,000 taels of gold and silver, which greatly improved the efficiency of arresting prisoners; Finally, in ancient times, transportation was underdeveloped, and there were high requirements for traveling and staying in hotels, so it was difficult for prisoners to stay in inns, which limited the scope of their escape.

1. Institutional reasons. During the Warring States Period, there was a joint sitting law, and if one person committed a crime, people in the same area would be punished by the criminal law if they did not report it. In the period of feudal society, there was a system of protecting the armor, with the household as the basic unit, ten households and one family, and the families were closely linked, so the prisoners were within the scope of the armor protection, and the portraits of the prisoners would be posted, in addition to being posted in the most concentrated places.

Therefore, if it is an ordinary prisoner, he can only go far away, or escape into the mountains and old forests.

In addition, the government's catchers will also take portraits to look for people everywhere, because of the performance assessment of Yulu, the catchers are often non-stop. Although the portraits of ancient prisoners are a little sloppy, the basic characteristics are obvious, so as long as you see someone who looks similar, interrogate them, or use others to ask for clues, unless the prisoner does not deal with others, it is only a matter of time before you are caught.

Second, it was difficult for the ancients to travel far away. In ancient times, the household registration system was quite developed, although not everyone had an ID card as it does today. The ancients generally had road guides, fish charms, tooth cards and other objects when traveling far away, which needed to be presented when staying at the inn, and the inn also asked you in detail from ** to ** to ** and other questions for the record.

For example, during the Tang Dynasty, ** went to other places and there would be fish talisman brands issued by the government. There will also be soldiers guarding the gates of various towns and cities to check the information of people entering and leaving the city, so the prisoners are greatly restricted from escaping, and it is much easier for the government to search around with the portraits.

Because there are rewards, driven by interests, and another is to go out, and you need documents to stay in the hotel, and people who don't have documents are very suspicious.

Because in ancient times, transportation was not so developed, and the population base was not so huge, prisoners could not flee to distant places, so even just a portrait could find prisoners.

Because there is still basic information about the prisoner on the portrait, and there was a very strict punishment system in ancient times, strangers will be interrogated by the people.

The bounty is high, and people will report to the government when they see similar people, which naturally improves the accuracy of arrest.

The third reason is that there is a certain amount of bounty on the wanted warrant. In ancient times, in order to be able to obtain these bonuses, people often offered to provide information about wanted criminals. Those who know where the wanted man is located will definitely betray the wanted man for their own benefit, after seeing the government's bounty order.

Through these three reasons, it can be found that in fact, it was very easy to capture fugitives in ancient times.

Because the ancient portraits are not treated like modern portraits, every detail is in place, it mainly captures the main characteristics of some criminals, such as thick eyebrows, big eyes and broad faces, etc., not through these features to catch criminals.

The first is that there are rewards on these wanted notices, and people who want to make money will definitely help the government arrest people; The second is that in ancient times, there was a system of armor protection, and people who did not know would be interrogated.

There is not only an abstract portrait, but also detailed auxiliary information such as the name, gender, age, place of origin, and physical characteristics of the wanted object, to help everyone fully understand the situation of the prisoner.

I think it should be based on some obvious features, after all, the portraits painted are not completely imaginary, and they can only rely on the general outline to arrest.

There is a saying that there must be a brave man under the heavy reward, although the ancient portraits, the paintings are indeed not like them, but they can't help it, the rewards are very rich, so once the portrait is released, there will be people among the people to help find it.

Although the portrait on the ancient wanted notice does not look like himself, the appearance and characteristics of the criminals on it are still relatively detailed, and the traffic in ancient times is not very convenient, as long as the card points are set up in each post station, it is still easy to find these suspects. We all know that wanted notices are posted for the purpose of arresting criminals who are on the run, especially in costume dramas, it is often seen that wanted notices with portraits of criminals are posted everywhere on the street, which will always attract people's onlookers. However, you will find that there is a big discrepancy between the portrait on the ancient wanted notice and the real appearance of the person.

So, could such an abstract arrest warrant really catch criminals in ancient times?

In fact, it's possible. Although the portraits on the ancient wanted notices are somewhat abstract, under the portraits, some useful information is still posted on them, such as the name, gender, age, and physical characteristics of the prisoner, which can sometimes become the key point to catch the criminal. Another reason is that transportation was not developed enough in ancient times, so it was very time-consuming for them to escape from one place to another.

Therefore, the government will set up barricades at all the post stations along the way, which must be faster than the speed at which he can escape.

After the barricades are set up, everyone who passes through these barricades will be questioned. If suspicious persons or persons without identity cards are found, they are arrested and interrogated. However, it is not excluded that some wanted criminals do not take Yangguan Avenue and take some deserted paths in order to bypass the barricades arranged by the government.

However, these trails in ancient times were very dangerous, and if you didn't do it, you would die unexpectedly in the wild.

Based on the description of the arrest warrant, the government will arrest any suspect who is similar to him first, and then carefully question. If it is innocent, it can be released. This kind of arrest of prisoners may have been more effective in ancient times, as the towns at that time were not densely populated, and it was easy to find such similar people.

But it must not be used now, after all, now that technology is developed, the efficiency of handling cases is faster and more accurate.

On the ancient wanted warrant, there is not only a portrait, but also with detailed information such as the name, gender, age, place of origin, physical characteristics and other auxiliary information of the wanted object, to help everyone fully understand the situation of the prisoner.

In ancient times, the arrest of people basically did not rely on portraits, because everyone had an identity certificate, and if the criminal did not show his identity certificate, there was no place to dare to take him in, and there was a armor protection system in various places, and the criminal could not escape at all.

Although the portrait is not realistic, it also outlines the characteristics of the characters. In addition to the portrait, there is also information about the criminal, height, body type, physical characteristics, and who is the person on the wanted notice? There are bounties, so people will report them if they think there are abnormal people.

Although there were no very standard portraits in ancient times, they could also arrest prisoners based on their special characteristics.

There must be brave men under the heavy money, and there will definitely be people who will go around for the reward, and you will know the suspicious people through word of mouth!

Because the ancients seldom traveled far from home, it was very conspicuous for strangers to go to one place, and the government used a system of high bounties for those wanted criminals.

In ancient times, the portrait of the criminal was mainly to highlight the facial features of the criminal, such as a scar, a mole, etc., and then encourage the common people to report it.

In TV dramas, we often see the government posting portraits on the city wall, wanting to arrest someone, but we often see portraits of ancient characters, all of which are very vague and very abstract, there are no photos in ancient times, and the painters paint according to other people's descriptions, painting a general appearance, so how can the government catch the prisoner with such an abstract painting?

In fact, the government didn't arrest people at that time, and they didn't all rely on character portraits, they also had their own set of methods.

First of all, it is with an ID card. In the Warring States Period, Shang Ying invented personal photos, and later there was a degree of Mo, as well as the road guide used when going out, etc., in fact, these are equivalent to our current ID cards, if you don't have these documents, you can't go out and stay in the accommodation. Therefore, the ancient portraits are not very important, and the government posts the portraits, mainly to let the local arresters know who they want to arrest, what gender, and what their approximate age is, so that they can implement it clearly as long as they check it a little in the local area.

Secondly, it is the armor protection system. The meaning of the armor protection system is that if someone commits a crime in the local area, but no one reports it, then everyone in the local area will be punished. Therefore, in that society at that time, the population mobility was relatively small, and most people may have lived in the same place all their lives, so if there was a strange population from outside, it was easy to be discovered and reported, after all, it was a strange face, and the locals would definitely report it to the government personnel.

Finally, there's the bounty. Just like in modern society, there are often bounties for the arrest of criminals, and the ancients are also like this, which fulfills the saying: there is nothing that money can't solve.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was even more absolute, and the direct result of catching a prisoner was to award an official, and there was also a cash reward, if you think about it, there is such a big benefit, wouldn't everyone try their best to catch the prisoner.