First Separate Two Questions
“Can this person hold office?” and “Has this person been arrested?” each need evidence. Loss of eligibility for office does not necessarily mean continuous imprisonment. Conversely, it does not prove that a disqualified person was never arrested or received no other penalty.
To assess a person's situation, first note the explicitly stated penalty, then look for separate references to arrest, imprisonment, or employment. Different penalties cannot all be packed into one term, nor can jingu alone establish death, release, or pardon.
Reading It in Chapter One's Context
The opening of the public sample discusses renewed employment of scholars who had been disqualified or marginalized. A later section separately describes interrogation and arrest at the Huangmen Northern Temple Prison. Read the former first as political eligibility; for the latter, separately ask who was arrested and released.
Separating these states helps identify whose position changes with shifts of power in the work. This example concerns the work's composition; its reconstructed dialogue is not original historical-source wording.
Do Not Omit “Mainly Means Here”
The public note is limited to this chapter's context, not a universal definition for the same term in all eras and documents. This page retains that limit and adds no dates of partisan prohibitions, participant lists, or historical rulings on other penalties.