Ancient China Punishments and laws were very strict and cruel. If you committed a crime you would expect a few decades of lashes. If anyone disrespected the emperror in the slightest way, they were not allowed any support from their families and all their possessions were taken away from them. If found guilty, they were tortured cruelly and executed the same day.
The laws were handed in by the mandarins (important Chinese officials) and moral teachings written in the legal-code book. The Mandarins would gather twice a week to teach all the new laws to the people.
If the laws were broken, the punishments were severe. Confucius
(551–479 bce) and his disciple, Mencius (372–289 bce), developed an entire code
of gentlemanly conduct governing good manners, demeanor and gestures, dress,
and social grace.
Have a school day acting like ancient china! The Mandarins are the teachers and one student can be the emperor and decide what sort of punishments the prisoner can receive.