In some old photos from the late Qing Dynasty, there have been many times a primitive torture device - a standing cage. For such an ancient torture device as a standing cage, the big lion had the privilege of getting close to it, but did not drill into it to try, the reason is that I think this thing is too obscure, good people better not touch these unlucky things.
The standing cage can also be called a "standing cage", after the person is locked in, he can only stand inside, but can not squat, let alone lie down. This cage is relatively rough, but it is just a dozen pieces of wood. However, these dozen pieces of wood can completely kill people.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a Japanese scholar visited Beijing and Tianjin, and in his book "Punishment of Chinese Punishment", he highlighted the standing cage and regarded it as a product of "barbarism" and "tyranny".
In fact, Japan was also new to civilization at that time, and during the shogunate period, their punishment was equally barbaric and tyrannical, not much better than that of the Great Qing.
A healthy man was put in a cage, placed in the scorching sun, without giving a drop of water or a grain of rice, and many of them cried out for their lives before the fourth day, and continued to show the public in the cage for a period of time after death, until the moment the chief agreed to open the cage, the poor fellow's body could be taken away by the family or discarded directly in the wilderness.
In Tianjin at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Shikai, as the governor directly subordinate to him, vigorously controlled the stubborn disease of Jinmen, and the first stubborn disease listed among them was the Jinmen chaos. After these so-called good men were taken to the court, the whips were whipped, the boards were beaten, the stalls were clamped, the bars were pressed, and there was no good piece of meat in the toss, but the dead and alive were not soft.
In the end, Lord Yuan had people rush to make more than sixty station cages, and then lined up in a row, all these "good men" were locked in the station cages, and explained that if anyone was willing to be soft, they would be released.
What Lord Yuan did not expect was that none of these "good men" actually obeyed and confessed, but one by one flaunted their might, taking advantage of their strength to sing Peking Opera and scold the streets, causing the people of Jinmen to come to watch this "grand situation." Some good men from the Zhili area came to Tianjin one after another and shouted loudly around these stations, and for a time the smoke miasma was so great that at the same time it made people feel sad. Why a good person should abuse himself in this way, many people really can't understand.
Some people may think that this is a product of the barbarism of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but in fact this is not a patent product of the Orientals, as early as the 15th century in Europe, Westerners also had similar standing cages, but the Eastern standing cages were wooden, and the Western standing cages were made of iron and more cruel.
You must know that the western station cage has spikes, and after people are locked in, in addition to enduring the pain of standing for a long time, they do not dare to move their bodies, and if they are not careful, those spikes will pierce into the body. Some obese people are even more unbearable, and at the moment of being locked in, the spikes have already pierced into the body.
Westerners will place these cages in a conspicuous place for passers-by to discuss. For passers-by, it's just a hilarious show, but for those in the cage, it's a small hell.
After the sixteenth century, the wind of black slave trafficking in the West became more and more popular, and a large number of black slaves were resold from their hometowns to various places. In addition to treating them with chains, leather whips, and soldering irons, unscrupulous traffickers also used such frightening and disgusting things as standing cages.
The cages of this period are more "miniature", much narrower than those of the fifteenth century, and to be precise, people are forced into them. In addition, the standing cage in this period is obviously higher than the previous standing cage, and even the tall black slaves have to pad their feet.
In less than an hour, the body will be numb, and the indescribable pain will make people undignified, painful, wailing, begging for forgiveness, begging the proud white masters to show mercy, putting a stone or a wooden board under their feet, so that they can alleviate their pain a little. If a white lord didn't want this slave who could earn money for himself to die, he would have a thick plank stuffed under his feet; if he thought he was worthless, let him cry inside until he lost his breath.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the station cage was also divided into large and small models, and if a short man was locked in a relatively large model, it would undoubtedly be a torture for him. If you want to alleviate the pain, you have to bribe the servants, either change a small cage or give a few large green bricks to the feet. If the money is in place, it may be possible to put a wooden board on the shelf horizontally inside, and the prisoner can sit on the board like a bench, which is a kind of luck for the prisoner.
In the third episode of the Old Remnant's Travels, it was written that within a year, more than 2,000 people had died in the cage, and these people were also used as food by insects and ants and birds and finches after death. Although I haven't seen it with my own eyes, just thinking about it is scary enough. I don't know if those brainless insects who dream of crossing back to the Great Qing Dynasty every day when they see the cage, do they still want to cross?