In the history of human society, the culture of torture has a long history and a wide variety. But in terms of richness and cruelty, it is most in ancient China. Many of the punishments in ancient China were very perverted and inhuman, and some of them looked like they were transplanted directly from vivisection or surgery.
In ancient times, there have been complete punishments, and the punishments recorded in the "Lü Punishment" include: ink punishment (painting the face of the criminal), slitting (cutting off the nose), shaving (breaking the foot), palace punishment (mutilation of genitals), and da pu (beheading), which is the famous five punishments. Among the five punishments, the most dehumanizing ones are the torture and palace punishment. The execution was the cutting off of his feet, and the famous martial artist Sun Bin was punished by the same door Pang Juan for being framed. As for the palace punishment, it has been circulated for the longest time, and the historian Sima Qian was punished by this punishment because of Li Ling's intercession, and he was so sad that he even thought of committing suicide.
In ancient times, there was a kind of punishment that used animals and insects to execute, and the cruelty of the means was rare in the world, which was the "punishment of the pot" invented by Dai Ji in ancient times. This punishment is found in the 17th edition of the Fengshen Yanyi.
One day, the King of Shang and Dai Ji were drinking in the Star Picking Building, and the wine was half drunk, and Dai Ji danced a dance, and the palace concubines and palace ladies present cheered in unison, only more than 70 palace people not only did not applaud, but there were tear marks on their faces. After daji saw it, she inquired, which palace people were the seventy palace people? Feng Yuguan replied that it was the person in the original Jiang Niangniang Palace of the Middle Palace. Dai Ji was furious: "Your master was given death for rebellion, and you dare to hold a grudge, and it will be a scourge after all" A poisonous plan suddenly surged into your heart.
Dai Ji told the King of Shang, who was furious and wanted to execute these people. Dai Ji said, "Concubines have a plan to get rid of the great evils in the palace." "Where did the king ask the plan come from?" Dai Ji said: "Divide the star-picking building twenty-four square meters in all directions, five meters deep and wide, put in poisonous insects such as snakes and scorpions, and then throw the palace people naked and throw them into the bottom of the pit, allowing the snakes and scorpions to bite."
After hearing this, the King of Shang yi praised this method as feasible. So the order of the people to push more than 70 palace people into the pit together, the snake swallowed the skin, burrowed into the abdomen, and for a time there was a heart-wrenching cry of sorrow under the pit. The people around him were frightened, and as if watching a grand performance, king Huan laughed and said, "If it weren't for Princess Ai's clever plan, there really wouldn't be a good way to get rid of these people!" ”
I have to say that the punishment of the pot is really harmful, perhaps this punishment is too harsh and inhumane, only appeared in the novel "Fengshen Yanyi", in the main history has not seen the record of other people being punished by this punishment, and no one dares to use this punishment.
However, in the southern region of China, there is a type of clam breeder, borrowing the means of the pot, putting a variety of poisonous insects such as snake scorpions and scorpions into bottles and cans, allowing them to eat and kill each other, and the only surviving poisonous insects left in the end is the clams.