In ancient China, under the influence of feudal thought, the awareness of human rights had not yet awakened, and those rulers also had a large number of cruel punishments in order to stabilize their rule and maintain social stability. Among these punishments, the most famous is Ling Chi. Ling Chi is also known as "a thousand knives and a thousand knives", which can be traced back to the Five Dynasties period. During the Ming and Qing dynasties of the Zhiliao Jin Dynasty, it was also sentenced as an official by the rulers.
The largest number of Ling Chi swords in history was received by the eunuch Liu Jin during the Ming Dynasty, who is said to have been ling chi 3357 swords. On the first day, 357 knives were cut, and the remaining 3,000 knives were cut in the remaining 9 days, which took 10 days to cut. And Ling Chi itself is even an extremely difficult "craft" for the executioner. In the process of Ling Chi, the executioner must keep the prisoner's sanity clear, and can not let the prisoner die, once in the process of executioner to kill the prisoner, then the crowd of onlookers will laugh at the executioner, this is still light, heavy may not even be able to save the rice bowl.
Fortunately, with the development of the times and the progress of civilization, the cruel punishment of Ling Chi has gradually disappeared from our vision and been replaced by a more civilized way. By the time of the Republic of China, most countries, including China, had basically entered the level of civilized society, but some countries were still in a very barbaric stage. During World War II, President Roosevelt of the United States once scolded Japan in this way: "Savage orangutan! A group of barbaric species that have not yet developed civilization! ”
During the period of Japanese aggression against our country, the interrogation of prisoners by the Japanese army not only continued the cruel punishment of the feudal period, but even upgraded them with existing scientific and technological means to make them even more cruel. At that time, the Japanese had countless punishments for interrogating prisoners, the lighter ones were like water-stained leather whips, thorny steel whips, bamboo plates, etc., while the heavier ones had reached an appalling level, such as bamboo/iron skewers, tiger stools, pepper water, soldering irons, electrocution, and so on.
Many people think that the damage caused by electrocution to the human body is difficult to see with the naked eye, and it should not be as cruel as Ling Chi. But in reality, electrocution is a punishment that is a hundred times more cruel than Ling Chi. The pain caused by the current only needs a moment to make people lose their minds and fall into a convulsive state, many people may have had the experience of being electrified when they were young, not to mention the home electricity, just to say that the current of the lighter, hit the person is a shock, and the electric punishment here is not just a lighter. The moment of being hit by electricity, people will even have a brief brain blankness, but many times this electricity will just hit it. But electrocution is continuously energized, and the human body will continue to be penetrated by electric currents, and its pain is even worse than that of Ling Chilai.
And the Japanese army at that time for the electrocution of people, but also specially picked some weaker parts, and even some perverts will also shock people's private parts. Such an approach not only brought great pain to the prisoner, but also gave the prisoner a great insult psychologically.
Fortunately, after fourteen years of the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, the anti-Japanese martyrs of the Chinese nation were tortured to the end, but after unyielding struggle, they finally drove this group of almost unspeakable people out of our territory. Although the war is over, we still need to remember the cruelty of the war, the grief and humiliation caused by the war, and remember this history that cannot be forgotten.