We often say that "no rules are not square", restraining a person can never rely on self-discipline, but on various rules and regulations, frightening punishment, so as to warn others not to make mistakes.
Speaking of the origin of punishment, Chinese punishment has gone through two histories, the first stage is the old five punishments of slavery, which are ink, sword, sword, palace, and great opening.
The degree of cruelty of punishment at this stage cannot be expressed, and emperor Wen of Han went down to abolish corporal punishment in the thirteenth year of Emperor Wen of Han, and the old five punishments came to an end.
The second stage was the new five punishments of the feudal system, and the Sui and Tang Emperors formulated five new systems of flogging, staff, discipleship, flow, and death.
However, with the development of the times, the late Tang Dynasty was seriously troubled at home and abroad, and in order to show the majesty of the government, some harsh punishment methods began to appear, and the most widely used was Ling Chi.
The cruel part of Ling Chi's punishment is that under the condition of ensuring that the prisoner is constantly angry, the flesh on his body is cut off little by little, and there is no specific rule on how many knives to cut, but as few as hundreds or more, there are thousands of knives.
From the historical data, it is known that Liu Jin, the great eunuch of the Ming Dynasty, once set a record for Ling Chi, and was tortured for three days, a total of 3357 knives from head to toe, and if he was hungry during the execution, the torturer would also "intimately" give him a bowl of porridge to drink.
Therefore, after committing a capital crime in ancient times, the prisoner would rather be beheaded directly than suffer from Ling Chi, but the punishment we are going to talk about today, although it looks "gentle", is more terrible than Ling Chi, and it is mainly aimed at the children of rich families.
Since ancient times, it has been important that the Son of Heaven has committed the same crime as the common people, but after all, he was born noble, in order not to hurt his face, he deliberately created this method, which is different from other punishments, not to fight or scold, the whole process is very gentle, but it makes the rich very jealous.
It uses animal organs as torture devices, and this punishment is also called - laughter punishment, which is recorded in the history books of various countries and was very popular in ancient times.
The earliest origin of laughter punishment in Europe, when the prisoner's hands and feet are tied to a chair, let him lie flat on the chair, and then paint honey or table salt on the soles of the feet.
At this time, the torturer will lead a sheep to lick and eat, as we all know, sheep like salt, smell this smell will take the initiative to come and lick.
Goats are herbivores with a soft tongue and small grooves in the middle and small barbs that create a sensation of irritation when licking the soles of the feet, which are full of multi-acupuncture nerves.
If we don't feel so exaggerated when we play, but when it becomes a punishment, it is terrible.
If people have been in a state of wild laughter, it will affect people's breathing ability, resulting in a decrease in air in the lungs, easy to faint, and even suffocation death.
Although this punishment does not cause pain to the prisoner, it is not weak at all in the aspect of torture.
During the Han Dynasty on the mainland, the laughing punishment was aimed at the children of rich families, because it was not easy to be found when wearing shoes, basically did not leave scars, and it was easy to recover.
So why are the rich so scared when they are tortured? It is because they usually go out to take a car or a palanquin, unlike ordinary people who do rough work all day, and their tolerance for itching is naturally very low, so they are very afraid of laughing.
Later, the ancient Romans also exerted the role of laughter to the extreme, and the execution site was extended to the armpits, neck, torso, knees, abdomen, ribs, navel and other places, which can be imagined as the "pain" that prisoners have to endure.
With the progress of the times, feudal society has become a thing of the past, and these tortures have permanently withdrawn from the stage of history.
Now we pay attention to the equality of all people, and compared with the ancient questioning and cutting, the current persuasion education is more humane and also has a deterrent effect.