In the ancient feudal period of our country, there was a special profession, this profession is called executioner. To put it bluntly, these people's profession is used to cut and kill prisoners. In ancient times in our country, if there is any profession that is innocent of murder, it is this profession. This profession has also been mythologized, and many people say that they are ghost messengers sent by Yama. In fact, they are just ordinary people who eat for mixed meals, and there is no difference between them and some butchers who slaughter pigs and sheep.
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In ancient China, there was also a certain discrimination against occupations, and there were theories of the upper nine streams, the middle nine streams and the lower nine streams. The upper nine streams are all princes and nobles, but the lower nine streams are some people who can't eat and seek a way to live, and these people do things that are too harmful to yin morality, like shaving heads. In the ancient times of our country, there has always been a saying that has been passed down to this day, that is, the parents of the body hair and skin. In ancient times our hair and our fingers were the same, and in the eyes of the ancients, there was no difference between hurting our hair and hurting our flesh.
However, the shavers are the ones who cut our hair, and they hurt our bodies and of course damage our yin morality. In the eyes of many people, such a profession will suffer retribution. Of course, the executioner is the same, this profession is generally taught by master and apprentice, and it has never happened that the son inherits the father's business. The main reason is that they can't marry wives because of their professions, and most of them are the last people who cut off the incense, and can only let their apprentices take over the knife in their hands.
The last executioner at the end of the Qing Dynasty
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, when China was at its most chaotic, many of the great powers were invading China. Before the fall of the Qing Dynasty, there was still a policy of beheading, and since there was a policy of beheading, there would definitely be executioners. The last beheading man in our country, his name was Deng Haishan. Because of the war at that time, he could not find a way out, and he could only be a decapitator to eat a mixture of food, so he learned to behead his teacher.
His master was also kind to him, teaching all his skills to Deng Haishan. And told Zheng Haishan how to cut off a person's head so that he could not feel any pain, and it was clean and clean. Finally, how to leave a whole body for the prisoner's family. Every day after that, he exercised his arm strength with a ghost-headed knife, which was a knife without light. Every day Deng Haishan had to use this knife to cut hundreds of watermelons. Even sometimes he would go to the slaughterhouse to help.
Many years later, his technique of beheading was also relatively strong, so he took over his master's position in the yamen. After the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China also had a policy of beheading in the first few years, so many places hired him to be the beheading man. However, in 1914, after the complete end of the government, there was no such punishment as beheading, and he was unemployed at that time. During this time, he killed more than 300 people and executed more than 300 people, and at this time he had nowhere to go because of unemployment.
Third, put down the butcher knife and become a Buddha, I did not expect that the Buddha did not want it
At this time, Deng Haishan also did not receive apprentices, and he did not make a few dollars in this life by beheading. At this time, he was unemployed and did not have any financial income. In order to be able to eat mixed food, you can only go to the temple to become a monk. He thought that the Buddhist monks would accept him because he put down his butcher knife, but he did not expect that many temples would reject him and take refuge in Buddhism.
Deng Haishan, who had nowhere to go, could only live on a little economy given by the government, and a few years later, Deng Haishan died in his thatched hut. It was only discovered more than ten days after his death that he had no descendants or apprentices in his life, and in the end no one gave him a pension to send him to the end, and Deng Haishan's life ended like this. In the end, even the people who collected his body only looked at his house, which buried his body.
summary:
This man's profession was entirely forced, and the people he killed were all violators of the laws of the land. To put it bluntly, he was nothing more than a knife from the ruler, who put some criminals on the execution ground, and these criminals needed to be killed because they had committed capital crimes. This led to the formation of this profession, and the people he killed were all sinful people, so it is said that he did not have any sin in killing people, but still did good deeds and accumulated virtue.