Ancient China's penal system after continuous development, the Ming and Qing dynasties reached its peak, its harshness and cruelty far exceeded the past, such as the smell of the Manchu Qing Ten Torture, in fact, this statement is only due to the popularity of a movie of the same name and popular, the real cruel punishment can be more than ten, specifically including: peeling, waist chop, car cracking, ju five punishments, Ling Chi, hanging head, cooking, palace punishment, execution, needle insertion, buried alive, poison, stick punishment, sawing, vertebral cutting, lead filling, brushing, playing lute, intestines, riding wooden donkey.
Peeling as the name suggests everyone understands, but the ancient method of peeling is quite cruel, I will not go into detail so as not to cause your reading discomfort. Speaking of this peeling, the thin man is better to say, because it is originally a skin bag bone, the most difficult is the fat, because there is a pile of oil between the skin and muscles, it is not easy to separate. Wei Zhongxian of the Ming Dynasty liked to punish his opponents by skinning.
The waist beheading is to cut the person from the middle, and the main organs are in the upper body, so the prisoner will not die at once, and after the cutting, he will be sober, and it will take a long time to lose his breath. When the Shang martingale changed the law, it was clearly stipulated that if a family commits a crime, the neighbor does not report it, and the punishment is beheaded. Some people also believe that Fang Xiaoru was beheaded by the waist, but in fact he was executed by Ling Chi. It is said that one of Bao Qingtian's three knives was used for waist chopping.
The five punishments may not be familiar to everyone, in fact, it is beheading, cutting, cutting hands, going out eyes, cutting ears, that is, "unloading eight pieces", usually after killing people, they chop off their heads, hands and feet, and then chop off their torsos into three pieces. After Han Gaozu's death, Lü Hou captured his favorite concubine Lady Qi, chopped off his hands and feet, cut off his nose, ears, and tongue, and dug out his eyes, and threw them in the pigsty to feed, taking the name "Ren Yan". And asked his son Liu Ying, the Emperor of Hui, to watch it together.
Ling Chi, who first killed people and then chopped them into meat sauce, was called "醢". Not only to kill the prisoner, but also to make the prisoner suffer the most, so not only to torture while alive, but also to require the prisoner to suffer how many knives before he dies. It is said that in the later days, each lingchi had to be executed by two people, starting from the foot, a total of one thousand knives, that is, a thousand pieces of meat had to be cut before the prisoner was allowed to lose his breath. It is said that if a prisoner loses his breath before he has cut a thousand knives, the executor will also be punished, developing into the "art of the death penalty". Fang Xiaoru of the Ming Dynasty did not respect Zhu Di's will and was lingchi. (In the end, the Ten Tribes were exterminated!) Originally there were only nine tribes, and Zhu Di killed some of Fang Xiaoru's students and friends. The hanging of the head is hanging, and unlike foreign hanging, the hanging of Chinese is hanging with a bowstring... It is to put the bow on the prisoner's neck, the bow string is facing forward, the executioner begins to rotate the bow behind him, the more the bow turns tighter and tighter, the prisoner's anger is less and less, and finally the breath is finally broken... Yue Fei's father and son died in the Fengbo Pavilion in this way (because he was a hero, he could not be beheaded, but had to leave a whole corpse) and the exiled King Gui of the late Ming Dynasty also killed Wu Sangui himself in this way.
Cooking is done with a large urn, surrounded by a red-hot charcoal fire, and then putting the prisoner in. Even stubborn people can't stand this taste. There is also an allusion to this punishment is to invite the king into the urn, which everyone should know.
The chariot split, that is, the five horses divided into corpses, is very simple, that is, the head and limbs of the prisoner are roped, and the five fast horses rush in five directions, tearing the person into five pieces.