When it comes to torture, many people will think of those bloody punishments in film and television dramas. For example, we hear about waist beheading, linging, hanging, etc. In fact, these tortures were only used by the ruling class to consolidate their own punishments. These criminal laws apply only to those who do not obey their own orders and who are of low status. For some people with more noble status, of course, these criminal laws can no longer be used. Thus, one of the most "gentle" forms of torture came into being. This punishment is laughter.
Laughter is very different from other tortures. When the sentence is carried out, the victim will not be bloody. As a result, many people think that laughter is only a punishment that makes people laugh, not torture at all. In fact, people with this kind of thinking are thinking wrong. Because the cruelty of laughter punishment is no less than that of those who cut off their waists and lingchi.
When the punishment is carried out, the victim is fixed to the stake of the punishment. The executioner would smear something the goats liked to eat on the soles of the victim's feet. However, a goat was pulled out and kept licking the substance on the soles of the tortured person's feet. Generally speaking, after the execution of the laughing sentence, the victim will laugh wildly. Eighty percent of the population surrenders early in the first five minutes of the execution of the laughing sentence.
After all, laughter is not only physically tortured, but also mentally impacted. Generally speaking, even the most determined prisoners will be crushed by laughter when they are executed for more than ten minutes. And for those who have been resisting and refusing to confess, they will end up dying on the stakes. And their death was very frightening, and their faces became distorted.
Later, because the laughter punishment was too cruel, it gradually withdrew from the stage of history. For the laughing punishment, which one do you think is more cruel than Ling Chi?