1. The cruel punishments commonly used among ancient Chinese people include the following:

1. Riding a wooden donkey

A kind of torture for female prisoners. The so-called wooden donkey is actually a donkey made of wood. On the back of the wooden donkey, there is a sharp wooden stake as thick as a thumb. When the female prisoner was forced to sit down, the sharp wooden stake penetrated straight into her lower body. Moreover, as the wooden donkey moved, the sharp wooden stake also expanded and contracted, causing the female prisoner's body to drip with blood, and the pain was heartbreaking. Many female prisoners who were tortured in this way often died miserably on the wooden donkey. In ancient times, this punishment was often used to punish so-called adulterers.

2. Dispossession

A kind of torture for virgins. In ancient times, some corrupt and ruthless officials forcibly destroyed the virginity of female prisoners for their own purposes. Either they instruct ferocious male prisoners or their subordinates to rape or gang-rape female prisoners, or they instruct a few strong women to catch the female prisoner, strip off her clothes and pants, insert a small wooden stick into the female prisoner's vagina, and fiddle with it a few times to rupture the female prisoner's hymen. It is said that Xiao Baicai in "Yang Naiwu and Xiao Baicai" suffered this torture.

3. Claustrophobia

A type of castration for female prisoners. There are currently two explanations. One is to imprison a woman in a deep palace for life, commonly known as "consigned to the cold palace"; the other is to use a special hammer to beat the female prisoner's chest and abdomen until the female prisoner's uterus prolapses and falls out of the vulva, causing her to Suffering for life, unable to get married or have children.

4. Thunderbolt Cart

A kind of torture said to be specially used to treat female prisoners. It can continuously fire sharp weapons, targeting the chest, abdomen or reproductive parts of female prisoners, killing them "smartly" and slowly. The legend of this punishment was invented by Emperor Xuan of Zhou during the Sui and Tang Dynasties.

5. Remove the stigmatization

A kind of torture for women who are "little in the family". The so-called "young woman" is what some backwoods areas call a woman whose husband dies less than a hundred days after her wedding. Her husband's family hated her the most, thinking that she was "eight defeats and defeating her husband", so they used "removal of obscurity" and "branding" on her. He ordered several strong women to forcibly shave off her pubic hair with razors to eliminate bad luck, which is called Chuhui. Then, they ordered someone to use a special soldering iron, which was heated red and pressed on her mons pubis to leave a mark or brand it on her pubic hair. Husband's name, this is called a brand.

6. Fengyin

A kind of lynching for "female women". The punished woman was forcibly tied naked to a door panel, and then a ball of gold thread was soaked in pig blood and threaded on a needle to sew the woman's labia majora stitch by stitch, making her unable to marry for life.

7. Taking Tongyang

A kind of torture used by bandits to torture women. The naked tortured woman was tied to a beam and her legs were spread apart. A blazing stove was placed underneath, and a movable copper penis was placed on the stove. As soon as the thug stepped on the pedal, the copper penis soared up and stabbed hatefully towards the woman's vagina. Stepping on and releasing it like this, the copper penis stretched and contracted, and the woman was burned by it, which was extremely painful.