<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > introduction:</h1>
In the ancient execution ground, in addition to prisoners, prison officers and people watching the liveliness, the most interesting ones were executioners. What is an executioner? Executioners are the kind of people who kill prisoners on the execution ground, which is a profession.
The ancient executioner had fifty silver dollars a month, and this profession could be said to be a high-paying profession, and many occupations did not have the higher income than the executioner. We always see executioners in movies and TV shows that every time when the beheading officer drops the killing token, he will take a sip of wine and spit on the knife. At this time, the prisoner will kneel down on both knees, close his eyes, and wait for death. Then the executioner raised the knife high, and then cut it down, and the knife fell in his hand, and a head fell in response.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > beautification of the executioner</h1>
In film and television dramas, there is always the act of throwing wine on the knife before execution, it is said that the executioner is paying homage to the gods, after all, the executioner is not a good profession, and there are many people who die under the executioner's knife.
But in fact, the executioner did not have this action at the time of execution, even if it was to pay homage to the gods, it would generally be done at home, and would not run to the execution ground, this action should be artistically beautified when it was put on the film and television stage.
Since I was a child, I have felt that executioners are a high-risk profession, after all, cutting off the heads of others, people with poor psychological quality, scared can also scare themselves to death, right? Although the prisoners were damned, and the masses were eager to draw their blood and strip them of their tendons, when they became the executioners, the one who personally ended the lives of others, the feeling was always different.
Some time ago, the author went back to his hometown and found that a house was being built on the side of a highway, which seemed to be quite large, and it should be to build a company or something. Then I was curious to tell my mother what the land was going to look like to build a company, and my mother said that in the seventies and eighties, the land was specially used for shooting and beheading, and there was a lot of blood of prisoners, not a clean place. My mother said that in the past, when prisoners were beheaded, many people came to watch.
The executioner did not sprinkle some wine and then behead him as in the TV series, usually after the beheading officer gave the order.
After the beheading, the prisoner's blood flowed to the ground. My mother was still young, and after seeing a beheading there, she came home with a fever for several days. Unexpectedly, time flies, and the land that is listed as a forbidden land has become the target of others to establish a company. But it's also clear that the executioners didn't spill alcohol before the execution.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > executioner kills "rules"</h1>
The executioner in the film and television drama is not neat and neat when cutting people. But in fact, this is all an illusion, and their hearts are panicked to death. Only people with very good psychological qualities and fierce hearts can continue to work in the profession of executioner, and ordinary people really can't do it. There is a rule in the profession of executioner, that is, to kill no more than a hundred.
Everyone in the world says that killing people is not too much, but it is not so easy. As executioners, there is also a lot of pressure on them. Why don't you kill more than a hundred? The executioners were all brought out by the master, and at the beginning the executioners took some melon fruits to practice their hands, and then they could go to the execution ground when they were almost finished.
Their master will also tell them that if they kill no more than a hundred people, they must be stopped in time, otherwise the end will be very miserable, which is actually a superstitious behavior! But many people listened to the master's words and accepted it in time. Some executioners are tired and let other executioners play and rest on their own. If there are many prisoners, it is usually several executioners who execute together, and each executioner cannot kill many people at a time.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > Deng Haishan, who cut off three hundred heads</h1>
Deng Haishan was the last executioner in Chinese history, and there are still quite a few points that make people remember him, everyone will have an impression of the first, last or most outstanding person, and what Deng Haishan did will also be impressive. Originally, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, he could have a good job, but he was too lazy to come out and make a living.
In order to survive, he decided to choose the profession of executioner. When all was said and done, he really went to find an executioner master to learn the art. At the beginning, the master asked him to practice with the melon fruit, draw a line on the melon skin, and then practice slowly. Later, Deng Haishan really practiced very well, and the traces of his knife and the lines he drew were very consistent, and he became a teacher.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > master's prediction finally came true</h1>
When he arrived at the real execution ground, at first Deng Haishan would be a little scared in his heart, but when he picked up the knife, he felt that it was no big deal.
After cutting off his head, he always walked back to the gate without turning his head, and he didn't say a word, but just let the people around him beat him with bamboo boards. He felt that only by doing so could he remove the obscurity of his body.
Every time Deng Haishan beheaded at the execution ground, he used this method to "go to obscurity" after he returned. Deng Haishan thought that if he didn't do this, he would have nightmares at night, and it would be very torturous not to be able to sleep soundly.
The practice of "going to obscurity" is actually a kind of psychological comfort. Later, Deng Haishan became more and more familiar with the method of cutting people, and more and more people's heads were beheaded on his hands, and he had long forgotten his master's previous warning to him--killing no more than a hundred.
Deng Haishan had already killed more than a hundred people in his lifetime, and even had as many as three hundred, as if from that time on, retribution had gradually come. Soon, Deng Lost his job as an executioner, as the executioner was replaced by a later execution.
After losing his job, Deng Haishan experienced what is called loneliness and old age, because his friends around him were afraid of this bloodied executioner, and at the same time, he was even more afraid of what obscurity Deng Haishan really had. Not only friends, But also Deng Haishan lost his family.
He was alone every day in fear, he didn't eat well, he couldn't sleep soundly, he thought, otherwise I would go to the temple and the green lantern ancient Buddha but this life. Unexpectedly, because there were too many killings, there was no temple that could accommodate him. It was only at this time that he suddenly remembered that the master's words had come true!
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="2" > the author's summary</h1>
In fact, Deng Haishan chose the profession of executioner, the need to kill people is also a professional need, but everything pays attention to a degree, if this degree exceeds too much, then it will be counterproductive. This is the same as the things we can encounter in life, no matter what we do, we will not exceed that degree, so that we will not regret it.