In ancient times, there were many unbearable criminal punishments, and all those who were tortured were in pain, and it is still shocking to read to this day!
First, Ling Chi
Among the various punishments, the most inhumane was Ling Chi. The word Ling Chi comes from the Xunzi Yu Sitting Chapter: "The Mountain of The Hundred Servants, let the negative car climb the Yan, what is it?" Ling Is Late". Roughly speaking, the hilly hills are slowing down. Later, it was used in punishment, that is, "the murderer wants to die slowly and without speed". That is to say, it is necessary to kill people without making people die too quickly.
The torturer used a knife to cut off the skin and flesh of the prisoner piece by piece, and also paid attention to the number of knives to be tortured, the Song Dynasty Ling Chi needed to cut eight knives to one hundred and twenty knives, most of the Ming Dynasty had to exceed thousands of knives, if the number of knives cut was more or less, the executioner also had to receive punishment, according to the theory Ling Chi had to cut to the last knife to allow the prisoner to lose his breath.
Historically, Fang Xiaoru, Liu Jin, Yuan Chonghuan, Geng Jingzhong, and Shi Dakai all suffered from Ling Chi and died.
In the literary work "Water Margin", it is written in the twenty-seventh time that the queen mother who instigated Pan Jinlian to kill Wu Dalang was also executed by Ling Chi.
Second, the car cracks
Car cracking is to tie the prisoner's head and limbs to five cars, put on the horse, and then whip the horse, so that the horse runs in different directions, so that the human body is torn into five pieces, so the name car crack.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the punishment of car cracking was very common, and the most famous incident was the "car cracking merchant martingale". Shang Martin had offended too many people since the death of Duke Xiao of Qin, and was executed by King Huiwen of Qin with the punishment of car splitting.
Third, the waist chop
The TV series "Bao Qingtian" used a tiger's head to execute the sinner, and the prisoner was cut into two pieces from the waist during the punishment. Famous such as "Bao Gong Zhen Chen Shimei", "Bao Gong Zhen Bao Mian" and so on.
The zhou dynasty's death penalties included car splitting, beheading and killing. Among them, "beheading" refers to the waist beheading, and "killing" is to kill the head, that is, beheading.
As the name suggests, the waist beheading is to cut people in two from the waist, and the torture device was originally used with an axe. During the execution, the prisoner crawled on the chopping board, and the executioner raised an axe with his hand and cut off his waist.
The main organ of the person is in the upper body, so after the prisoner is cut in two from the waist, he will still be conscious, and he will not be able to stop breathing for a while and a half, and the pain can be imagined.
The punishment of waist beheading was abolished in the Yongzheng Dynasty, because Yongzheng beheaded Yu Hongtu, and after Yu Hongtu was beheaded, he also wrote seven "miserable" words on the ground with his own blood, and Yongzheng felt very cruel after hearing it, so he abolished this punishment.
Mr. Lu Xun once commented on the waist chop, saying, "Chinese is the people who can best study the human body and use it according to nature." The neck is the thinnest, inventing beheading, knee joints can be bent, inventing kneeling, buttocks with more flesh, and not fatal, inventing spanking... As for the tough and straight waist bone, which constitutes the image of being a man standing tall in the sky, Tao Yuanming does not bend his waist for five buckets of rice, and Li Bai is unwilling to destroy the eyebrows and bend his waist to do things for the magnates, and their waist plates are much harder. The rulers may be afraid of the rugged bones of these intellectuals, so they kill and sacrifice their waists in a vain attempt to break the backbone of the people."
Fourth, grooming
The word sounds gentle, but it's actually cruel.
It was founded by Zhu Yuanzhang in the early Ming Dynasty, when the executioner stripped the prisoner naked, tied it to an iron bed, poured boiling boiling water on the prisoner, and then used an iron brush to brush the skin and flesh of the person, just like the folk slaughter pig with boiling water and then shaved the hair, until the skin and flesh are brushed and the white bone is fully revealed.
Fifth, the golden melon hits the top
The golden melon was originally an ancient weapon, a bronze weapon, also known as a copper hammer. On TV dramas, everyone often sees that it is the honor guard that follows the emperor. However, during the shang dynasty, the golden melon was a frightening torture. "Golden melon topping" means that the torturer holds the golden melon, targets the prisoner, kills in one move, and the brain plasma bursts. Compared with other ancient criminal laws, the golden melon top is still humane!
6. Execution
Cutting noses and cutting ears, although these are not life-threatening, they will make people collapse and ruin people's faces. The ancients paid special attention to the "skin of the body, the parents who were tortured" those who were tortured not only suffered physically, but also suffered in the heart. Qin Xiaogong and Shang Martin jointly changed the law, the prince (later King Huiwen of Qin) killed the people of the fiefdom and broke the law, Shang Martin in order to calm the people's anger in front of the prince Fu (Win Qian) tortured, Win Qian was cut off his nose, blood flowed like a torrent, unbearable to see, although he was still alive, but always wore a mask to show people.
Punishment is a tool used by feudal society to maintain and consolidate class rule, and when we look at it from the perspective of modern society, it is enough to discover the barbarism and ignorance of feudal society!
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