Wumen (The Meridian Gate)Ⅴ

On the 1, October in lunar calendar, the government would issue the next-year calendar. On the successful returning day of the troops, government also would hold the huge rite or ceremony for the military showing their prisoners of war to Emperor. By the way, the officials or officers used to take the governmental beating as punishment here. Initially, such a beating punishment was slight but later on it gradually became the death penalty, and many unwise officials or officers were beaten to death here.