In ancient times, the most inhuman torture lighting lantern was only used on three people

Ancient punishments are strange, the most well-known of which are Ling Chi and Ren Yan, the former is to use a knife to slash the victim a thousand times, the latter is to cut off the limbs of the person, cut the nose and goug the eyes, copper liquid irrigation ears, dumb medicine throat, and finally put into the toilet, made into a half-human, half-pig monster. However, the horror of the torture of lighting the sky lantern is not much better than that of Ling Chi and Ren Yan!

Lighting a sky lantern, as the name suggests, is to remove the prisoner's clothes, then wrap his whole body in sackcloth, soak him in an oil cylinder, and finally tie it to a towering wooden pole and light it like a sky lantern. Only three people in history have been subjected to this punishment.

The first is Dong Zhuo, as everyone knows, Lü Bu killed Dong Zhuo and discarded his body in the street, but because Dong Zhuo was brutal before he died, some soldiers thought that this method of death was too cheap for him, so they angrily cut open Dong Zhuo's stomach, and then put on the wick, when the flame burned along the wick to the fat in Dong Zhuo's stomach, the fire burned more and more vigorously, and finally burned his body to the end.

The second was Emperor Huizong of Song, who was the emperor, and after being captured by the Jin people, he died of mental torture, and after his death, the body was burned on a stone pit, and when it was burned to scorch, the body was thrown into a puddle to extinguish the fire and refined into lamp oil.

The third is Only 19-year-old Zhu Jiumei, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, she was favored by the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, coinciding with yang Xiuqing's lack of holding documents in the Eastern Palace, asking her to be his holding documents, but Zhu Jiumei swore to die, and the female hundred chiefs took pity on her and hid her, but also caused the disaster of killing herself. Zhu Jiumei, who escaped by chance, was bent on avenging the female hundred chiefs, but the plan leaked in advance, and Yang Xiuqing lit her alive with a sky lantern.

In modern times, the lantern has long been removed from the official punishment, but it is spread among bandits in the Sichuan-Xiang area, who will drill a small hole in the head of the prisoner, or cut off his navel with a sharp blade, and finally pour lamp oil to light it, so that the victim is burned alive in extreme pain.