Qiu Jue

Incipit:
“According to ancient philosophers, spring and summer are seasons for birth and growth,Autumn and winter are the seasons for decadence and death.
Farewell in the harsh autumn, the atmosphere is bleak and chilly, leaves fade and worms weep mournfully, hills and rivers lied at the silent passing.
Thanks to the God’s sympathy, obeying the spring and autumn’s cycle, the local authority will execute the death row criminal until fall.
During the Han Dynasty, the Premier Xiao He, decreed that execution should be done in autumn, then it has named “Execution in Autumn”