There is a sense of torture without pain, but the prisoner would rather commit suicide than be punished by this punishment
Presumably, there are some people who are very interested in ancient things, and one of the things we want to know today comes from ancient times, that is, punishment. In ancient times, there were many means of punishing ordinary people, but there was a kind of punishment, although he did not bring any pain to people, but some people, after receiving this punishment, would rather choose death than continue to live in this world. In ancient times, there were some comrades, ordinary people, who would take some torture in order to defend their rights.
According to the records in the history books, there were about 20 kinds of these punishments in ancient times. There are some criminal laws that seem very painful to ordinary people, and as long as they hear about such punishments, they will be like a madman and cannot calm themselves down. It was precisely with these punishments that many ordinary people were ruled very efficiently in ancient times. Among the more than 20 kinds of torture, there is one kind of torture that is very cruel, and that is Ling Chi. As rulers with supreme power at that time, one of their favorite ways was this, and it was not until the Qing Dynasty that this method was lifted. With regard to other solid forms, not every dynasty possessed them, and there were special penalties that were only used by one dynasty at that time. Although these criminal laws physically made many ordinary people unable to accept it, or gave this person some spiritual blows, there was a kind of punishment, although in the eyes of modern people, this did not seem to be a punishment, but for the ancient people at that time, they felt that this was a naked humiliation, and they felt that they could not live in this world.
The earliest dynasty of this punishment was in the Western Zhou royal family, if someone committed a certain crime, then he would use this method to shave off the hair on his head and his own beard, which was to slander this personality. Everyone knew that hair and beard were part of a person's body, and they were given to them by their parents, so under the fixed thinking of people at that time, treating hair as their own life was something more important than life. Many people will think that this is a criminal law, but this kind of criminal law does give people a mental blow, and if he is punished in this way, then he seems to have been mentally insulted.
Later, as time slowly changed, the ruler found that more and more people's thinking had changed to a certain extent, believing that this punishment was slowly deviating from a purpose he wanted to punish. Especially in ancient times, there were some women, who had no status in the family, who were influenced by the feudal ideas of some ancient people, so there were some women who would be punished in this way for their bad manners. If she had been punished in this way, then the person would have felt that she had been slandered like never before, which would haunt her for a lifetime.