What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
In order to consolidate their rule and vent their perverted desire for power, ancient emperors invented and created all kinds of torture, such as lingchi, car cracking, and waist beheading in the highest realm of death, all of which are unbearable torture, in short, for one purpose, to deter the people, to maintain the system of governance, to kill chickens and monkeys.
Wu Zetian uses cool officials to maintain his rule, the Ming Dynasty's East Factory and West Factory are very good examples, today I introduce this torture for you to called "Tiger and Leopard Spring", it looks like a good name, sounds some festive, and even a little elegant, but behind it is incomparably dehumanizing, heartless, and cruel to human body and mind.
Ancient torture "tiger leopard frolicking spring" is a kind of female punishment, most of the people subjected to this punishment are female prisoners, the specific operation is to strip off the clothes of female criminals, because ancient women are more conservative and pay attention to chastity, strip off the clothes of female criminals, one is to make female criminals humiliated, to break her will, the other is to facilitate torture,
Female prisoners are stripped naked and placed in sacks, and then cats and mice are put into sacks, and lit firecrackers are thrown into sacks, and the frightened rats and cats will bite the female prisoners, who are covered with scales, and then it is said that the female prisoners take them out of the sacks or sprinkle salt on their bodies, or soak them in salt water, and most of the women who have been on this trip cannot live.
In ancient Europe, there was a similar torture, mainly for Christians, the iron pot was held in the abdomen of the prisoner, and a few rats were placed in the pot, and then the iron pot was slowly heated, and the rats under the iron pot would desperately flee out as the heat in the pot increased, until the rat dug through the belly of the prisoner.
This kind of torture, which arose in the historical context of the supremacy of feudal imperial power, was not only a physical destruction of the tortured, but also a spiritual destruction of the prisoner.