The laws of the Dazhou Dynasty clearly state that women are not allowed to litigate, are not allowed to litigate on behalf of women, and are not allowed to enter the court.
But if the court doesn't listen to women, then she will let the paper complain on their behalf.
Xie Lingyi, 24 years old, is a "ghostwriter" in a teahouse in a small town in the south of the Yangtze River.
Her right hand was mutilated, so she could not take the imperial examination, go to court, and did not even dare to call herself a "lawyer."
But the pleadings she wrote can make the county magistrate stay up all night to look through the files, let the condemned prisoners walk out of jail, and make the powerful sweat in the courtroom.
She saved a widow from being wronged by poison, protected a mute girl from falling into the clutches of the devil again, clarified a three-year-old case for a death row prisoner, and questioned an abandoned baby about tax...
Behind every piece of paper is a human life forgotten by the law.
But when her own name was written on the wanted order, and when the Queen Mother personally sentenced her to "deceive the public with her evil words, she should be punished according to the law"——
This woman who had never been to court finally picked up her pen and wrote the sharpest thing in her life:
"Self-litigation Letter".
Plaintiff: Ten thousand unknown women in Dazhou.
Defendant: This cannibalism rule.
She couldn't go to court, but she forced the entire Zhou Dynasty to kneel down and listen to a woman speak.
This is not a counterattack and a cool article, but a prairie fire ignited by the silent ones with words——
When the law became a shackles, the pen was her sword; when the world did not allow her to speak out, she let thousands of people use her paper to cry out.
The group portraits shine, the cases are intertwined, and the three reversals point directly to the evil of the system.
See how a woman who was blocked by the rules used three hundred pieces of paper to stir up a millennium law and pave a way for those who came after her.
Intent: In an era when women were completely excluded from the judicial system, a woman who could not go to court used three hundred pieces of paper to tear open the iron curtain of ethics and laws, proving that justice does not lie in the court, but in the hearts and words. The true rule of law begins with seeing everyone who is "not allowed to speak out."