汉文帝时,有一位叫淳于意的人,精通医术。他秉性刚直,行医的时候,得罪了一些有权势的人,于是遭到陷害,按照刑法当专车押送到长安接受肉刑的惩罚。淳于意的女儿名叫缇萦,虽然是一位弱小女子,但为了救父亲于水火之中,她不辞劳苦,与父亲的囚车一同前往长安,并上书皇帝说:“我的父亲曾经做过地方官,当地百姓都说他清廉公正,如今却犯了法要接受刑罚。我最感痛心的是受刑而死的人不能复生,而因受刑导致残废的肢体也不能完好如初,我父亲即使想改过自新,也没办法了。我愿意舍身 Chinese Emperor, there is a man who is honest, proficient in medicine. He was upright, practicing medicine, offended some powerful people, so he was framed, in accordance with the criminal law when the car escorted to Chang’an to accept the punishment of corporal punishment. Junyi Italian daughter named Ti Ying, although a weak woman, but in order to save his father in the water, she worked tirelessly with his father’s van to go to Changan, and wrote the emperor said: ”My father had done Local officials and local people all said that he was honest and fair but now he is guilty of having to accept penalties. What worries me most is that those who die in torture can not be revived, but their crippled limbs can not be left intact. My father even wanted to change There is no other way to be new, I am willing to sacrifice myself