There are many kinds of things in the world, and light and darkness have always coexisted. Ancient China has a long history, and in this long history, there are both magnificent chapters that are full of emotion, but also pages of terrifying horror, and torture is one of them.
Torture is a word we are familiar with today. Like Ling Chi, the five horses splitting the corpses, the human body, etc., these tortures have made people fearful. However, there was also a form of torture in ancient times, and the fatter the prisoner, the more unbearable it was, but now it has become an entertainment game for young people in pursuit of excitement.
It is a form of torture known as the "Sudden Roar", and its brutality is terrifying. The inventor of this punishment was the famous cool official Lai Junchen in the Tang Dynasty. If you want to say that Junchen is this person, he is also very treacherous, and he has designed to frame countless good people. At that time, Wu Zetian was in power, and in order to consolidate his position, Wu Zetian used ten cool officials to deal with political opponents.
Lai Junchen is one of the "Top Ten Cool Officials" under Wu Zetian, this person is burly and cruel, and has designed countless horrific tortures. It is said that on one occasion, Lai Junchen used a fire to barbecue a criminal and directly scalded a person into a roast pig, and on another occasion, he simply killed a person like a pig and made it into a "human biao". It can be said that this Lai Junchen is too inhumane.
"Sudden Roar" was also designed by Lai Junchen to deal with those prisoners. Although this torture was not bloody, it was not less cruel. You may think it's mysterious when you hear the name "Sudden Roar", but in fact, the tools it uses are very simple, just a large wooden barrel.
The method of execution is to tie the prisoner tightly to a large rough wooden barrel, and then use an ox or horse to pull the barrel to make it jolt and rotate on the ground at high speed. This rotation is not a simple circular motion, but is full of irregular jolts and shocks, causing the prisoner to tumble and crash inside the barrel, experiencing extreme dizziness and physical pain.
The inner wall of the barrel was uneven, and it was conceivable that in this crazy rotation, the prisoner would be hit hard by the protrusions underneath, and his body would quickly hit the barrel wall, and a dull pain and nausea would immediately strike. What's worse is that the prisoners in the barrel will also have difficulty breathing and suffocation due to the thin air.
This kind of punishment is an unspeakable torment for obese prisoners. Due to the heavier weight of obese people, the rotational inertia of the barrel is increased, making the collision more violent. In this environment, they are more likely to feel breathless, their hearts are overloaded, and they may even have a psychological breakdown due to extreme dizziness and panic. This is not only physical torture, but also great mental destruction.
As a loyal executor during the Wu Zetian period, Lai Junchen used this punishment to deal with those prisoners who refused to confess, causing them to submit to extreme pain. The reason why this punishment is called "sudden roar" is because the screams of the prisoners in the barrel are like the roar of the evil spirits in hell.