What is the most cruel punishment in ancient times? Speaking of this, the punishment of cannon branding in the Shang Dynasty must be the most impressive, and it has been recorded in the "History of Yin Benji": "The people resented and the princes had provocateurs, so the punishment of cannon branding was severely punished, and there was a method of cannon branding", the torture of cannon branding brought people pain, even in the past 3,000 years, people did not dare to forget, and they can still remember how miserable the prisoners were tied to the hot copper pillar.
Torture such as cannon burning has been recorded, but there is a very strange phenomenon, there are often ancient emperors who use the "punishment of cooking", but in the ancient punishment, there is no record of it in the history. What is the "Punishment of Cooking"? Anyone who has seen the anime One Piece should know that after Moonlight Mita was defeated by the black charcoal nippori, after three days, he was going to be executed for public display, and what he needed to use was the punishment of cooking. This punishment will be mentioned in "One Piece", in fact, during the Sengoku period in Japan, a generation of rogue Ishikawa Goemon encountered this kind of thing.
The punishment of cooking is actually "cooking punishment", popularly speaking, it is the punishment of cooking people with a pot, setting up a large cauldron, and then putting the prisoner into the pot, and then constantly adding firewood until the person in the pot is cooked to death by boiling water. It is an extremely cruel punishment, and is generally not used, unless it is a deep sin, but this punishment, which has hardly been recorded by non-commissioned officers, has been repeatedly mentioned in other historical sources.
The earliest cooking punishment also appeared in the Shang Dynasty, the story of King Wen of Zhou's eating son is well known, King Wen of Zhou's son Boyikao was victimized by Himself, and finally became a bowl of soup, brought to the face of King Wen of Zhou, at that time King Wen of Zhou also felt that it was a son, but he had no way, he could only swallow his breath, could not easily die, so he ate it.
In ancient times, there was a large cauldron called "wok", which was specially used to cook large livestock, originally made of copperware, it had three feet to support the cauldron, and there were two ears on the wok, just like the current pot, when cooking, it was lit below. The pot used for cooking is called "孭镬", which looks the same as the wok, but the use is slightly different, and it is recorded in the Book of Han and the Criminal Law Chronicle: "There is the punishment of chiseling and pumping wok heng".
In history, not only the King of Shang yi used such a punishment, but also added a corporal punishment when the "Shang Martingale Transformation Law", in fact, this punishment is also the punishment of cooking, which is a kind of death penalty. In the story of Lian Po and Lin Xiang in the "Records of History", there is such a sentence: "The subject makes people hold on to the return, and the subject knows that the crime of deceiving the king should be punished, and the subject please take the soup." The implication of this last sentence is that he asks to punish himself with the "punishment of cooking."
In the Chu and Han dynasties, this kind of punishment was still loved by the emperor, and in 205 BC, Liu Bang's father was captured by Xiang Yu in the Battle of Chenggao, when Xiang Yu shouted to Liu Bang: "If you do not surrender, you will cook Taigong to death." At this time, Liu Bang said a surprising sentence: "I have been called brothers twice, my father is your father, if you must cook your father, then share a piece of my pie." Liu Bang was resolute and refused to surrender, but his father was killed as a result.
Because this kind of punishment is too cruel, every time it is used, not only the civil and military officials must not play, but also arouse the resentment of the people, and in less than an extraordinary period of time, this kind of punishment will not be easily moved out, and people will be angry and resentful, and some people will compare them to Di Xin, brutal and ruthless. Although he admires Xiang Yu as a hero, he can also see the violent side from the time he uses the punishment of cooking.
In the Sui and Tang dynasties, this punishment was officially abandoned, and no one was allowed to use it on them, but there were still many corporal punishments used on prisoners, such as ink punishment, beheading, etc., although it was abolished by the authorities, but in the Wu Zetian period, there were also people who used the punishment of cooking to scare people, Zhou Xing proposed: If the prisoners do not look for them when trying prisoners, they will set up a large cauldron in front of him, and then put people inside to cook, and then they will definitely be recruited. Later, someone set up a cauldron against Zhou Xing, and he was frightened and said, "I can do anything." ”
In ancient times, most of the people who used the punishment of cooking were tyrants, but the emperor could become an emperor, in fact, it should not be underestimated, just like Di Xin, who was also a good emperor at the beginning, but later became more and more faint. But no emperor wanted to describe himself as such a tyranny, so in the history, there is almost no record of the punishment of cooking. Always