汉文帝废肉刑,将早在奴隶社会就已有的笞刑取代黥、劓、刖左趾,使笞刑成为汉代重要的刑种。汉景帝时,制定《令》,规定用于笞刑的刑具应是长五尺、本大一寸、末薄半寸且平节的竹板,受刑的部位是臀部,行刑者不能换人。魏晋时,妇女受笞刑不能打臀部,而要打背部。隋朝时笞刑被正式定为新五刑之一;唐以后笞刑的刑具改为用大头二分、小头一 Emperor Han Emperor waste meat punishment, as early as the slavery society has been replaced by gauntlets, 劓, 刖 left toe, the gauntlet has become an important criminal species of the Han Dynasty. King Han emperor, the development of “Order”, the provisions of torture should be used for gauntlets five feet long, the big one inch, the end of the thin half inch and flat section of the bamboo, torture site is the buttocks, the executioner can not be replaced. When the Wei and Jin Dynasties, women should not beaten to the bottom by gauntlet but rather to fight back. Sui was sentenced to one of the new five penalties in the Sui Dynasty; the instruments of torture after the Tang dynasty were replaced by the big two, the small one