In order to strengthen their rule, the ancient rulers were able to deter others, and specially designed a very variety of cruel punishments, most of which would cause people to suffer great harm to the body and mind at the same time, and basically everything was artificially discolored, such as the Lingchi, car crack, etc. that we often hear, which are frightening, in addition, there is also a kind of torture in ancient times, just by using the tongue of a goat, it can make people afraid and unbearable.
Ancient types of punishment
When it was still in the feudal period, the class was very strict, and the rulers formulated relevant rules and set certain punishment measures to protect their rule and ensure that their rule was not overthrown. The earliest punishment appeared in the Shunyu period, when there were already a series of records about punishment. By the time of the Xia Dynasty, a more standardized five-element system had emerged, and the punishment in the Shang Dynasty was more severe, which caused great harm to the human body.
People who commit crimes often not only lose their lives, but also suffer a great deal of physical unbearable pain before they lose their lives. In the Western Zhou Dynasty, painful punishments such as detention, imprisonment, and exile began to appear, and even more, at this time, there were also the punishments of slavery, which deprived people of their personal rights and lost their personal freedom. During the Qin Dynasty, there was even a Zhulian system, that is, the "Zhulian Nine Tribes" that everyone often hears, and the most popular punishments later on were cane punishment, imprisonment and exile.
During the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of han abolished corporal punishment after he ascended the throne. Some reforms in the penal system were carried out, such as the original very bloody punishment of cutting off the nose and toes, which was reduced and the degree of punishment was relaxed, among which the number of floggings slowly began to decrease, and the punishment for mutilation of limbs was even less rapid, until it finally disappeared.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, even the very popular death penalties and exiles had been greatly reduced, and this was also the period in the history of our country in which punishment was used most lightly and the least. However, during the Song Dynasty, punishments such as scepter blame and Ling Chi appeared. The penal system in the Ming and Qing dynasties was also good, the most serious of which was exile and death.
Torture "unbearable"
Although the overall development trend of criminal law has slowly declined and eased, some corresponding tortures that have occurred at different times in history have made it difficult for us to talk about and suffer even now. The most intolerable of all time, unlike what we might think, is not bloody, but it is even more unbearable.
This criminal law is unbearable because of the time it has been enforced. This punishment is called laughter punishment, which does not leave traces of punishment on the body and is also very easy to recover.
The earliest period appeared during the Han Dynasty, when most of the victims belonged to the aristocratic class. Of course, this kind of criminal law is not only available in China, but also very popular in Europe in the 17th century.
At that time, most of the countries of Europe were in the midst of melee, and there would be a lot of soldiers on the battlefield, and when they became prisoners, the rulers wanted to get information from their mouths and adopted the corresponding criminal law. This torture is used when confronted with more determined captives.
Punishment – the tongue of a goat
Laughter punishment, in fact, literally knows that this is a kind of criminal law that makes people laugh and cannot stop on their own. Although people always smile and laugh when they are happy, laughter can also become a criminal law, and this punishment often requires the use of an animal, which is a goat.
Most people will have sensitive parts of the body, such as underarms, the center of the soles of the feet, the roots of the ears and the like, in these places coated with some honey, sugar and other foods that goats usually prefer, and then attract a goat, the goat licks at the part of the person.
And the goat is an animal, its special feature is its tongue, its tongue and humans and even other animals have a certain difference, its tongue will grow some barbs. It feels a little prickly to the touch, and when this different tongue licks the sensitive parts of the person, it will feel unbearable. Just like when we usually play and play, we tease and tickle each other, because some people with sensitive individual parts will laugh because of this, and even laugh to the point of unbearable laughter, and stop after bursting out of tears and snot.
When we are playing with each other, we can call a suspension, but when it is a criminal law, the prisoner has no right to call a suspension. When the goat licks the food that has been applied to the sensitive area for the first time, someone will re-coat the goat's favorite food, or even change the goat, until the prisoner can't bear to shout stop and is willing to say the answer the ruler wants.
People often say, "Laugh for ten years," but if you keep laughing, life will stop. When people laugh incessantly, the respiratory system is also affected, not only can not ensure that they can inhale oxygen in time, but also may die of lack of oxygen.
According to historical records, it is extremely rare to be able to persist for more than 30 minutes in this kind of punishment, and the average prisoner will basically have general convulsions, physiological incontinence, and even syncope and prostration in less than half an hour. For men, it was already a very unbearable punishment, and for women in ancient times, it was a huge mental and physical torture.
During the Second World War, such punishments were also frequently used, and the people who received such punishments laughed from the beginning to the end, and could not tell whether it was tears or snot, and even vomiting, fainting and so on. But this kind of criminal law is only for people with sensitive parts of the body, and in our lives, there are also a very small number of people who are not afraid of itching at all, and there are no sensitive parts on the body at all. Then these people are unresponsive in the face of this punishment, which is not a punishment for them.
epilogue
Although the means of punishment are diverse, cruel and unbearable, as long as they exist, they have a certain rationality. Punishment was born not originally for the sake of punishment, but to allow the ruler to better rule and protect the country from external forces.
Therefore, even if it is now a peaceful era, for the sake of national defense and security, punishment has not disappeared, it still exists in people's lives, but it can only be used for legitimate reasons, otherwise it is illegal. And the existence of punishment also warns us: be a qualified and law-abiding citizen and do not do anything that harms national security and interests.
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