余秋雨是冤枉了。清朝有一种刑罚叫“掌嘴”,就是打嘴巴的意思。那打法有两种,一种是由别人打,打得轻重全在行刑者了。碰见凶狠的行刑者可打得受刑者眼前金蛇狂舞,口中鲜血狂喷。一种是让被罚者自己打,如果不是遇到十分刁钻刻薄的监刑者,打得轻重倒可以自己掌握。但这种打法的主旨似乎并不完全在于造成肉体痛苦,而是要让被惩罚者在精神上大受摧残,要让被惩罚者自轻自贱、自我摧残,以达到让他尊严扫地、人格丧尽的目的。所以,自己掌嘴时绝不能只顾闷声不响地打,要边打边骂自己,骂得越恶毒、越下流,则越可能得到宽恕,其他方面的惩罚也就可望得到减轻乃至取消。所以,这后一种掌嘴实在是更残酷,可以与凌迟、太监、女人缠小脚等“国粹”共同列入阴暗文化大全。余先生既然没有错,为什么要自己来掌嘴呢? Yu Qiuyu is innocent. The Qing Dynasty has a penalty called “palm mouth” is to open the mouth of the meaning. There are two kinds of play, one is played by others, played a heavy punishment in the executioner. Meet the vicious executioner can hit the victim in front of the golden snake dance, mouth blood spray crazy. One is to allow the punished themselves to fight, if not met a very cautious jailbreaker, played down the weight can be mastered. However, the purpose of this play does not seem to lie entirely in causing physical suffering. Rather, it is to make the punished mentally devastated and to allow the punished to be self-defeating and self-destructive in order to achieve their dignity, The purpose of personality loss. Therefore, when you hold your own mouth, you must not only play in a silent way. You should scold yourself while scolding you. The more vicious you scold you, the more you will be forgiven. The penalties in other areas are expected to be reduced or even eliminated. Therefore, this latter kind of palm mouth is really even more cruel, and Ling late, eunuchs, women wrapped around the small legs and other “quintessence” jointly included in the dark culture. Since Mr. Yu is not wrong, why should you own palm?