Each dynasty had its own legal system, and successive emperors continued to improve the system of their own dynasties on the basis of their ancestors, constantly creating and adding new laws. In this way, we can achieve the purpose of governing the country, maintaining order, and consolidating our ruling position. Therefore, with the change of times, many cruel criminal laws have emerged. Beheading was one of the many cruel criminal laws of antiquity. There have been sightings of executioners cutting off 33 heads in less than three minutes.
Today, we are far removed from that era. But through the internet, we can still learn about many of the tortures in the past, and the images of those who deal with prisoners are very cruel and make us shudder. The beheading punishment that has been set up is the most frequent and is also the most commonly known to us. A hundred years have passed, and we can still see that as the rulers of that era, they were indifferent to the masses of the people and their contempt for life, bent solely on consolidating their position.
Beheading, one of the most common forms of torture in the Qing Dynasty
With a loud cry from the executioner, the knife fell, and the human head fell to the ground with the gushing blood, and a person walked towards death. This is a scene that we often see when watching a lot of clearances. Even in such a scene, we can't help but sigh. But when we really understand the past, the truth is even more cruel.
There is a very special place in the criminal law of the Qing Dynasty, and beheading, as the most common punishment among many criminal laws, is no exception. When every prisoner is about to be executed, he will tell everyone that on the way to the place of execution, there will be many people watching, which is the so-called parade in the streets. When we arrived at the execution site, it was also the time when the crowd of onlookers was the largest.
Watching the beheading of prisoners in this way is what is usually called beheading and showing public. Torture, as one of the rulers' means of governing the country, was done only to give the onlookers a warning that they had broken the law and disobeyed the ruler's rule. When the people saw such a picture, they also deepened their fear of the ruler and became more obedient to the ruler.
In this way, the beheading system continued in the hands of successive generations of rulers, until the end of the dynasty, the door of the country gradually opened, and many foreigners came to see the style of the ancient eastern powers. These foreigners are very excited at the same time when they are very interested in a completely different way of life, eager to record all this. A foreigner who lived here witnessed such a cruel and bloody scene by coincidence.
33 people, all beheaded in less than 3 minutes
At that time, the government posted a notice informing that 34 prisoners were about to be beheaded for rebellion. The foreigners who live here have also noticed. Decided to go to the scene to see for yourself how the eastern power punished the prisoners.
On this day, the foreigners rushed to the execution site very early, and when they arrived at the execution ground, they were crowded with onlookers. It was also such a decision that left a deep impact on him who rushed to the scene to witness the whole process, and afterwards, he recorded the complete process. Foreigners at the execution site saw that 34 prisoners were brought in, 33 of whom would be beheaded, and this was carried out by an executioner.
This foreigner was still wondering in his heart, after all, he was executing a living person, and so many people were executed, and all he needed was an executioner. I saw 33 prisoners kneeling in a long row as required, all with their heads facing the same direction. As the execution began, the executioner took the knife in both hands and slashed at the prisoner's neck.
When the foreigners clearly saw that when their heads landed on the ground, some of their facial features were still twitching, and the executioners were all executed in less than three minutes. Until a while, the foreigners looked at the knife that was still dripping blood and did not return to God. While being shocked by the speed of execution by the executioner, there was also a strong curiosity about the executioner.
Executioner, a profession that makes people smell discolored
After the execution, the foreigners deliberately found the executioner to understand the profession more deeply. In the process of talking to the executioner, the foreigner learned. Executioners are not a fixed profession, but only a temporary profession, and prisoners are only needed for execution.
Although this profession is highly paid, and every person executed can be paid very high, it has high requirements for the executor. First of all, before accepting this profession, there is a period of very rigorous training, and they will go from food to livestock as a tool for practicing knife work until they become more and more skilled.
Secondly, the executioner must also have too ordinary psychological qualities, indifference and decisiveness and lack of fear are the basic qualities that the executioner should have. Therefore, not everyone can be a qualified executioner. The profession of executioner also has a long history, which lasted for a long time with the Qing Dynasty. Finally, it also withdrew with the demise of the dynasty.
The people, indifferent to the numbness of domination
With the end of this dynasty, the abolition of the beheading system also means the end of an era. In such a fair and reasonable society under the rule of law, it is undoubtedly ridiculous for us to review the beheading system, and it will also cause us a lot of deep thinking.
Such a cruel criminal law could last so long in a dynasty, and it also gave rise to such a profession as an executioner. Through this profession, we can see that the rulers behind it have achieved the purpose of consolidating their position by cruel means to carry out punishments in disregard of the will of the people.
Foreigners have also described that after the execution, the people faced such a scene, their faces were numb, and they seemed to have become accustomed to such a scene. It is also the blindness of the people, backward thinking, and numbness that encourage such brutal behavior of the rulers.
What's even more frightening is that some people even rushed forward to pick up the blood left by the dead prisoners. Because the people believed that the blood of these prisoners could be used medicinally, the indifference of human nature was vividly displayed at this moment.
epilogue
The decadent era of the past is long over, and we are all born in an era of peaceful development. But today's civilization is bought with the lessons of the blood and tears of our ancestors. They sacrificed their lives in exchange, so we must cherish our lives now.
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