The "Ten Tortures" are the main manifestations of the cruel criminal law of ancient China, which was developed under the guidance of the principle of using law as a deterrent to maintain rule in that era. In the movies and television dramas we watch and the books we read, we can find many words about torture. Today, let me take you to understand what kind of torture there is in Chinese history. Content may cause discomfort, please watch with caution.
1. Peeling
When peeling, the back skin is cut in half, and the skin of the back is slowly separated from the muscles with the knife, and it is torn apart like a butterfly spreading its wings.
After peeling off the skin, it was made into a two-sided drum and hung at the gate to show the ring. The earliest peeling was after death, and later developed into live peeling.
Second, the waist chopping
As the name suggests, the waist chop is to cut the person from the middle, which seems simple, but its degree of blood is very high, because the main organs are in the upper body, so the prisoner will not die at once, and after the chopping, he will be conscious, and it will take a while to break his breath.
And Ming Chengzu killed Fang Xiaoxiao with his waist, and legend has it that after a knife went down, Fang Xiaozi still crawled on the ground with his elbows, and the word "usurpation" was written with blood on his hands, and he wrote a total of twenty-four and a half before he broke his breath.
Third, the car cracks
The car split is the division of five horses, which is very simple, that is, the head and limbs of the prisoner are put on ropes, and the five fast horses are drawn in five directions, tearing the person into five pieces. It is said that Shang Martingale was punished by dividing the corpse by five horses.
Pulling the head and hands apart, the suffering of the torturer is even more imaginable. When it really comes to tearing it open, I am afraid that the prisoner will no longer feel pain. The pain is when it is pulling.
4. Five sentences
Beheading, beheading, cutting hands, gouging eyes, cutting ears and nose, that is, "unloading eight pieces", usually after killing people, the head, hands and feet are chopped off, and then the torso is chopped into three pieces.
After the death of Emperor Gaozu of Han, Empress Lü captured his favored concubine Lady Qi (Liu Ruyi's mother), chopped off her hands and feet, cut off her nose, ears, tongue, and gouged out her eyes, forcing her to drink dumb medicine, Mrs. Qi could not call out, and the vicious Empress Lü was not enough, and asked someone to smoke Madame Qi's ears with smoke, and then threw it in a pigsty to feed, named "Renbiao". It can be said to be a very terrible punishment.
5. Lingchi
At the earliest, people were killed and then chopped into meat sauce, called "醢", and those who received this punishment were Zilu, and Bo Yikao, the eldest son of King Wen of Zhou. Later, the development was more elaborate, and the purpose was still to make the prisoner suffer the most, so not only was the torture given while alive, but also the inmate was required to suffer how many knives he had to suffer before he could die.
It is said that later, each time the lingchang had to be executed by two people, starting from the feet, a total of 1,000 knives, that is, a thousand pieces of meat were cut before the prisoner could stop breathing. It is said that if the prisoner loses his breath without cutting a thousand knives, the executor will also be punished. The art that developed into the death penalty. And the most famous person who suffered this punishment was the great eunuch Liu Jin, I heard that it took a total of three days to cut him off... After a thousand cuts, this psychological torture is more serious than physical.