1, peeling
When peeling, cut the back skin in half with a knife, slowly separate the skin from the muscle with a knife, and tear it like a butterfly spreading its wings. The hardest thing is the fat man, because there is still a pile of oil between the skin and the muscles, which is not easy to separate.
There is also a stripping method, I don't know how credible it is. The method is to bury people in the soil, exposing only one head, making a cross on the top of the head with a knife, pulling the scalp away and filling it with silver. Because mercury is heavier than blood, it will pull muscles away from the skin, and people buried in the soil will writhe painfully and cannot break free. Finally, their bodies will jump out of that gap, leaving only a skin in the soil.
After peeling off the skin, make two drums and hang them at the entrance of the yamen as a warning. The earliest skinning was after death, and later it developed to live skinning.
Step 2 cut the waist
Because the waist chop is to chop people from the middle, and the main organ is in the upper body, the prisoner will not die at once, but will be sober after the chop, and it will take a long time to die.
Fang Xiaoru was killed by Emperor Cheng Zu of the Ming Dynasty. It is said that after a knife was cut off, Fang Xiaoru crawled on his elbow, his hands were covered with blood, and he even wrote the word "usurp". Twenty-four and a half times.
3, car cracks
In other words, dismembering five horses is very simple, that is, putting a rope on the prisoner's head and limbs, pulling five fast horses in five directions and tearing people into five pieces. It is said that Shang Yang was dismembered by five horses.
It takes a lot of effort to cut off a person's head and limbs, not to mention pulling them. The pain of the prisoner can be imagined. Speaking of tearing, I'm afraid the victim won't feel pain any more. The pain is when you are pulling.
4. All five punishments
Beheading, gouging out eyes, chopping hands, digging eyes, cutting ears and nose, that is, "cutting eight pieces", usually refers to killing a person, cutting off his head, hands and feet, and then cutting his trunk into three sections.
After the death of Emperor Gaozu, Lv Hou caught his favorite concubine, Mrs. Qi (Liu Ruyi's mother), cut off her hands and feet, cut off her nose, ears and tongue, gouged out her eyes and forced her to drink dumb medicine. Mrs. qi can't call it out, nor can she be vicious. She was also deaf by cigarettes, and then she was put in a pigsty and named "Ren Bi".
Later, Lu Houchuan asked the supervisor to make his son (Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty) a "servant" and asked him to take his son to see Mrs. Qi. Liu Ying, Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, was so scared that he almost fainted on the spot. She couldn't help crying: "What a servant did, Mrs. Qi followed the first emperor for so many years. How could she be so miserable? I am the queen mother, and I can't rule the world in the end! " After returning to the palace, he was seriously ill. After that, he drank and had fun day and night, no longer participated in state affairs, and soon died.
5. Year after year
The earliest way is to kill people and chop them into meat paste, which is called "Qin". Boyko, the eldest son of Luz and Zhou Wenwang, has been punished.
Later, it was developed more carefully, with the aim of making prisoners suffer the greatest pain. Therefore, not only should the prisoner be punished when he is alive, but also how many knives he has to suffer before he dies.
It is said that at the end of each year, two people perform, starting with their feet, and a * * * cuts a thousand knives, that is, cuts a thousand pieces of meat, before the prisoner can die. It is said that if the prisoner dies before cutting a thousand knives, the executor will also be punished. The art of developing into the death penalty.
The most famous person who was punished in this way was Liu Jin, the great eunuch. I heard it took * * * three days to let him die. ...
And the worst is the late Ming dynasty anti-qing star Yuan Chonghuan. Because Emperor Chongzhen was tricked into collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, he was sentenced to death that year. Before the execution, he wrapped himself in a fishing net (to make his muscles stand out under the knife) and paraded in the street. He was rushed forward by those ignorant people in Beijing and bit off his meat piece by piece. I'm afraid that kind of psychological pain is far higher than physical pain.
This is one of the official punishments in Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Step 6 bow your head
Hanging is a common punishment abroad.
In China, people are hanged with bowstrings. That is, the bow is put around the victim's neck, the bow string is forward, and the executioner begins to rotate the bow at the back. The tighter the bow turned, the less angry the victim became and finally died.
That's how Yue Fei and his son died in the Fengbo Pavilion (because he was a hero, he couldn't be beheaded, so he had to get away with it), and so did Wang Gui, who was exiled in the late Ming Dynasty, who was hanged by Wu Sangui himself.
Step 7 cook
That is, "please enter the urn." It was the Tang Dynasty. When Wu Zetian was emperor, there was a cruel official named Lai Junchen in the DPRK, who advocated severe punishment and severe punishment, and often tortured prisoners who refused to confess. The solution is to find a big urn, put people in it, and then heat it with firewood below. The temperature is getting higher and higher, and the prisoners are getting more and more unbearable. If they refuse to confess, they are often burned in urns.
8. Castration
Castration is also called corruption. China's castration is exquisite. First of all, we should tie the little brother up with a rope (including the child's bag, that is, the scrotum), let the blood not circulate and die naturally, and then cut it off with a sharp knife. After cutting, cover it with incense ash to stop bleeding, and put a goose feather in the urethra.
In a few days, take off the goose feathers. If you can pee, castration will be successful. If you can't urinate, that person will be useless and will probably die of uremia in the end. So if you want to castrate the eunuch, you'd better castrate him while he is still young, and it will be much more dangerous when he is old.
This punishment is often offset by the death penalty of the nobles. Relatively women are claustrophobic.
Sima Qian didn't write the Historical Records until he was in prison, and he also wrote the sentence "I am a boudoir minister" in the Letter to Ren.
9. Punishment
There are different opinions about the punishment of strangulation. Some people say that it is to cut off all below the knee, while others say that it is to cut off the kneecap. The latter is more credible. In short, strangulation is a kind of torture similar to amputation.
During the Warring States Period, Sun Bin was framed by his brother and fined. I heard that his original name was Sun Bin, but he was changed to Sun Bin after being punished.
If the kneecap is cut off and there is no protection between the thigh and calf, the person may not even stand up. Therefore, according to unofficial history's records, after Sun Bin was punished, he couldn't even ride a horse on the battlefield, so he had to take a bus (carriage or rickshaw).
10, pin or bamboo stick
Stick a needle in your fingernail. Often used for female prisoners. Bamboo stick, reminiscent of toothpicks that we often use, is such a humble little thing, which also played a great role in the criminal trial stage and was rampant for a while. Han people were ordered to go to Yangzhou to check the warehouse accounts, arrested Dai, the man in charge of the warehouse, and forced him to expose the county governor as a public official.
I once nailed an iron needle into Dai Li's nails and forced him to scrape the hard soil on the ground. In the early years of Kaiyuan in the Tang Dynasty, Wang Xu, a cruel official, often sharpened bamboo sticks and nailed them into the nails of prisoners, which made prisoners feel terrible pain.
Extended data
From Qin and Han dynasties to Ming and Qing dynasties, several kinds of torture of the previous generation were generally used, such as killing three families and nine families, burying them alive, sublating and innovating. For example, Emperor Wen of Han saved his father and sold himself as a servant, so he felt that corporal punishment was inhuman. Even if the executed person turns over a new leaf, the mutilated limbs will not regenerate. Therefore, in addition to corporal punishment, the punishments of ink, ink and ink were abolished, and castration was retained.
According to historical records, during the reign of Emperor Jing of Han Dynasty, Liu Qu, the king of Guang Chuan, once skinned the living, but the specific implementation method cannot be verified. Sun Hao, Empress Wu Zetian of the Three Kingdoms, stripped the captive's face. After Wang Ji, a courtier of the Jin Dynasty, was promoted to the Jin Dynasty, he asked Sun Hao why he was skinning people. Sun Hao replied that ministers who were rude to the monarch should be punished.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was very strict with officials: if an official embezzled more than 62 taels of silver, he would be put to death, beheaded for public display, peeled off his skin, filled it with grass and placed it at the door of the government as a warning to his successor. This is the famous story of Zhu Yuanzhang peeling grass.
The 10th Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Zheng De Zhu Houzhao (date of birth and death: 149 1 year 10 year1October 27th-152 1 April 20th; Year of reign: 1505- 152 1 year) made a saddle out of peeled human skin. When he travels, he rides this mount that matches the human skin saddle.
In ancient torture, the more humane punishments may only be poisoning and beheading. The former is a highly toxic drug that dies in the mouth and forces criminals to take it. There are two forms of beheading: forcing criminals to commit suicide, or letting executioners and soldiers strangle them.
In ancient times, it was often said that the emperor gave three feet of white silk to force criminals to commit suicide. For example, Tang Xuanzong executed Yang Guifei and Jiaqing executed Xiao Shenyang.
These two kinds of punishments are often used to put the death penalty on the empresses of aristocratic bureaucrats in order to preserve their bodies and let criminals die with dignity.
Needle insertion is a method of execution used in extorting confessions by torture. As the name implies, it is to insert bamboo thorns or iron (steel) needles between nails and meat.
After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the most cruel way to execute the death penalty may be the end of the year. It is also called "solution" and "treatment" in ancient books, and is commonly known as "thousand pieces" among the people. It probably appeared in the Five Dynasties. It was not until the Liao Dynasty that it was formally incorporated into the criminal code. (See "Liao History Criminal Law") Before the Ming Dynasty, Ling Chi was mainly used to punish criminals who committed heinous crimes such as rebellion and rebellion.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, children's daughters-in-law beat and scold their parents or in-laws, children killed their fathers, and wives killed their husbands, all of which were serious violations of ethics and morality, and they would be punished that year. Liu Jin, a eunuch who was good at politics in the Ming Dynasty, was chopped 3357 times. During the Chongzhen period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Man of Jishi Shu, imperial academy was executed by "in the middle of the year" for "unfilial to his mother" and was beheaded by 3600 knives.
Yuan Chonghuan, an anti-Qing national hero, was executed because of Chongzhen's mistake. Beijing citizens who don't know the truth are still fighting for meat and venting their anger.
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