The punishment in this photograph is called "hitting the board", which is the most common punishment in ancient times, and even in the emperor, he would use the "court battle" to punish the ministers and concubines. Although the power of this kind of horizontal hitting is not large, and hitting less can only serve as a warning to prisoners, if you want to hit dozens of large boards, it is very likely that you will beat prisoners to death or even maim them.
The sentence in this photo is called standing in a cage, also known as "hanging punishment", which is not just a literal sentence for the prisoner to stand in the cage. This cage is specially designed, the upper end of the wooden shackle will fix the prisoner's head, and the height of the cage makes it impossible for the prisoner to stand on the ground normally. After being imprisoned in a cage, prisoners can only fix themselves with their hands and toes. The guards would then expose the prisoners to the scorching sun and would soon run out of water. In order to prolong the prisoner's suffering in the cage, the servant would also put bricks on the prisoner's feet and then suck them away piece by piece. Around the prisoners was a crowd of indifferent onlookers. Prisoners fixed to wooden shelves, this photograph was taken by E.H. Wilson between 1899 and 1910. The prisoner in the picture is tied to a wooden shelf with his hands, legs and head tied to a wooden shelf and unable to move, and is immediately escorted to the execution ground for execution. Such a scene also appears in costume dramas, where prisoners are fixed to shelves and escorted to the execution ground by torture vehicles.
Prisoners held in Mongolia at the end of the Qing Dynasty are pictured wearing a thick iron chain around their necks. Why is that? Mainly because the prisons in Mongolia are mostly wooden structures and are not very strong, in order to prevent prisoners from escaping from prison, they are tied with a heavy iron chain. As can be seen from the photos, let alone escape, even normal walking is very difficult, even if you can escape from prison, you can't run far. Torture in the late Qing Dynasty "half-empty horse step". The man in the picture is not a prisoner, but demonstrates this punishment to the photographer. In the photo, he is crouched on a wooden frame, his upper body is stuck in the wooden frame, his hands are tied, and his lower body and feet are stepped on the wooden support. If he is a real prisoner, his hands and feet are fastened with ropes or iron cables. In that case, you have to keep this painful position and can't move.
The prisoners in this photograph are punished by a wooden cage, and the prisoners are put into a special wooden cage according to their crimes, are not allowed to eat or drink, and are tortured to death. The origin of this punishment is not in China, but in medieval Europe. It is said that this wooden cage was extremely popular with Alexander the Great, and it was found everywhere in Europe in the Middle Ages.
The Qing Dynasty punished kneeling iron ropes. Kneeling iron rope, as the name suggests, is kneeling on an iron chain, and the prisoner is hanged on a wooden pole with a chain under his knee. This punishment will affect the prisoner's blood circulation for a short time, and damage the prisoner's knee joint for a long time, causing disability. Liu Siye in "Camel Xiangzi" knelt before the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
At the scene of the execution of ling chi, a female prisoner at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Ling Chi is one of the most cruel punishments in ancient China, and it is this kind of punishment that is said by a thousand knives. This punishment first appeared in the Five Dynasties period, and its name was formed in the Liaojin period, which continued for more than a thousand years, until the Qing Dynasty abolished this punishment in 1905. The reason why this punishment is cruel is because the executioner does not directly kill the prisoner, but cuts it with a knife, until the last knife will kill the prisoner, which can be described as extremely cruel.