In ancient China, there were many types of torture. Whether it is torture that causes death or torture that does not die, it is half-dead torture, and there is nothing that people do not hear or see that they are not afraid of. The "Ten Great Tortures of the Manchu Qing Dynasty" circulating in film and television dramas need not be said more, and the heart that looks at this punishment without indifference is different from that of beasts.
In ancient times, comparing a punishment called "lighting a sky lantern" with punishments such as Ling Chi and car cracking, lighting a sky lamp was simply too cruel. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs fell into chaos. The Western Liang warlord Dong Zhuo brought his army to Luoyang under the guise of peace. Dong Zhuo held heavy troops in his hands, and Tianzi was also controlled by him. Even the emperor's harem could come and go freely for the night, in defiance of etiquette and the law.
Before Dong Zhuo was alive, no one dared to say anything, but Dong Zhuo died, and no one was afraid of him anymore. Indignant, the ministers lit Dong Zhuo's sky lantern, that is, to open Dong Zhuo's stomach, insert a candle wick, and light it with human fat as fuel. Dong Zhuo is very fat, weighing more than 200 kilograms, and it is said that it burned for a few days before it burned out. ???
In addition to Dong Zhuo's extraordination, there was also Taiping. During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan, in order to seduce the believers, claimed to be a messenger sent by God to the human world, and once his position was stable, in order to strengthen the control of the Taiping Army, there were many harsh criminal laws in the army, one of which was "lighting the sky lamp".
Among the troops of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Army, there was a Hubei woman named Zhu Jiumei. Zhu Jiumei did not succumb to Yang Xiuqing's lasciviousness, and the Eastern King was so angry that he ordered the brutal execution of the female Baizhangzi, saying that the Heavenly Father had lowered the punishment, and Zhu Jiumei, who had escaped for a while, was planning to secretly kill the Eastern King with arsenic and avenge her benefactor after more than a month. But her plan was exposed before it was implemented, so Yang Xiuqing murdered Zhu Jiumei, who attempted suicide, and also lit a sky lantern and burned human oil wax to eliminate hatred.