When it comes to ancient punishments, it is absolutely varied, and it is impossible to say that it is impossible to say a day and a night. Ancient times were not as civilized as modern times, so people at that time were quite barbaric in doing things, and they did not care about the problem of human rights or not human rights.
In ancient times, there were many kinds of death penalties, and the average death row prisoner was usually pulled to the door of the wet market and beheaded, the purpose of this was to set an example and deter other criminals. However, compared to other methods of death, being dragged to the wet market and beheaded is very light, because the beheading only feels pain, or even does not feel at all. But other death penalties tend to make life worse than death.
One of the more famous punishments is Ling Chi. Ling Chi was very common in ancient times, but it was also very cruel and had a strong deterrent ability. Ling Chi is also generally executed at the gate of the vegetable market, but the executor does not kill the prisoner immediately, but will use a special dagger to cut the prisoner one by one. Usually start with the least important parts and then slowly progress to the point. Therefore, Ling Chi also has a name of "a thousand knives and a thousand slashes".
Although lingchi in ancient times was common, it was only used against the most vicious people. Otherwise, it will arouse the indignation of the people. Therefore, among the many death penalties, Ling Chi's executions are still relatively few.
And there is a kind of death penalty that is more vicious than Ling Chi, and this kind of punishment is basically difficult to see. Moreover, this punishment was not invented by the rulers, but by the common people.
Legend has it that during the Three Kingdoms period, Dong Zhuo was a very cruel person and committed many evils. Under Dong Zhuo's rule, the people did not have a good life, so they hated him very much. Later, Dong Zhuo was directly killed by Lü Bu in order to grab the cicada with Lü Bu, and Dong Zhuo's body was found by the local people, and then the body was burned by lighting a sky lantern, and the death was unbearable.
Because it was rarely enforced in ancient times, it gradually evolved into a folk custom. During important festivals such as Chinese New Year's Eve, people will write their wishes in the lantern, and then light a fire in the lantern, at which time the lantern will slowly rise into the air. This way of celebrating the festival also carries people's good wishes for the future.
However, the "lighting of the sky lamp" in the punishment is very cruel. There is also a woman in history who has also been lit with a sky lamp, first of all, she was soaked in the cylinder by the whole person, and after a day passed, this person became the wick of the oil lamp, and became a state of burning at one point. Then she was hung on a pole with her head up, her feet down, like a sky lantern, and the executioner placed the fire on her feet, and then her whole body burned from her feet to her head.
At first, the burning did not hurt the point, and the prisoner remained awake because of the severe pain. The prisoner will not be burned alive until the fire reaches the critical part. Rulers sometimes deliberately controlled the fire for fun and brutally tortured and killed prisoners. The woman who was lit by the lantern was Zhu Jiumei of the Qing Dynasty, and I believe everyone knows her.
Zhu Jiumei was an uprising of the Qing Dynasty's Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, and later the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom settled in a corner, and Yang Xiuqing, who had 66 wives, took a fancy to Zhu Jiumei's beauty and wanted to take her as a concubine. As a result, Zhu Jiumei preferred to die, and in order to establish a will, Yang Xiuqing chose to burn Zhu Jiumei by lighting a sky lantern. It is sad that a woman with ideals and ambitions will die at the hands of the people she once followed.