"It's noon, make a decision!" As soon as the beheading officer's voice fell, he only listened to the "whizzing" twice, and the executioner took up his knife and fell, and the prisoner nodded his head to the ground, screaming for his life, and the picture was very cruel. Say it or not, in ancient times, the terrible executioner turned out to be a very "popular" profession, and many people competed to do it. Next, I will start from the last executioner in the history of our country and tell their real life.
His name is Deng Haishan, born in a small mountain village in Changsha, Hunan, the late Qing Dynasty, the first people, from childhood there is nothing outstanding, the hard thing to say is that the courage is particularly big, never afraid of ghosts. Due to the frequent wars in the late Qing Dynasty, Deng Haishan's family was very poor, and later his family died one by one, leaving Deng Haishan lonely and bitter, fortunately, master Tong Shaoji took him in, but the master's work was a bit "special", he was an executioner.
Executioner, what's the matter? What a beheading! Although Deng Haishan was bold, he was still quite afraid in his heart, but he had no money, and he had nowhere to go, so he could only follow the master to "learn the art", in fact, the executioner is a technical job, not everyone can do it, and it must be led by the master.
Why? That's because the Ancient Chinese emphasized leaving the whole body, so when beheading, it can't be completely cut off, but it is still connected to the skin of the head and the body, which is convenient for the prisoner's family to sew it back afterwards, and at the same time requires the executioner to be deadly with a knife to reduce the pain of the prisoner.
Therefore, before Deng Haishan became an executioner, every day was to cut winter melons, the master first drew a line on the winter melon, and then Deng Haishan had to do every knife down, he had to accurately cut that line to be qualified, on average, he had to cut hundreds of winter melons every day, and the most exaggerated day was to cut 700 winter melons. After the master is completely satisfied, the apprentice can practice his hands with livestock, and finally be introduced by the master to become a real executioner.
At the beginning of the article, the author said that the executioner was a very "popular" profession at that time, because the Ruler of the Qing Dynasty believed in Tibetan Buddhism and believed that the profession of executioner would damage people's yin morality, so the edict greatly increased the executioner's Qilu (yes, at that time, the executioner ate public meals), and during the Xuan reunification year, the executioner could get 1 ocean for every prisoner beheaded, you know, the ordinary family of three in the late Qing Dynasty, only 2 oceans in 1 year, and the executioner can not work for a year as long as he swings the knife 2 times, naturally "eating incense" Occupation.
In addition, the prisoner's family often bribes the executioner, hoping that they will give the prisoner a painful pleasure, do not mend the knife many times, so Deng Haishan beheaded 1 person at least 4 silver that year, life is particularly moist, but Deng Haishan is not happy, because he did this line, no one wants to marry him, basically it is a queen, according to incomplete statistics, Deng Haishan beheaded more than 300 times in his life.
Later, China canceled the beheading and changed it to a shooting, the executioner Deng Haishan was officially unemployed, after the unemployment he did nothing all day, and could not find a new job, looking back on the past, Deng Haishan decided to eat and pray to the Buddha, can atone for a little sin is a little sin, as a result he wants to become a monk, others do not accept him; he wants to become a Taoist, others do not accept him, because the "executioner Deng Haishan" is too famous, no one dares to want him.
In the end, Deng Haishan, who had no relatives and no friends, could only stay at home all day, depressed, and before dying, Deng Haishan cried out in sorrow: "The person who was killed is against the law of the land, what is the crime with me?!" ”