The top ten torture skins in ancient China were all cut off from the spine, and the skin on the back was cut in half. Slowly, the skin and muscles are separated by a knife, and they are torn like butterflies spreading their wings ... The most difficult thing is the fat man, because there is still a pile of oil between the skin and muscles, which is difficult 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 of the large proportion of mercury, muscles and skin will be torn apart, and people buried in the soil will writhe painfully, but they can't break free. Finally, the body will jump out of the designated mouth, leaving only a layer of skin in the soil ... After peeling off the skin, it will be made into two drums and hung at the entrance of the yamen as a warning. The earliest skinning was after death, and later it developed to live skinning. Waist chop because waist chop cuts people from the middle, and the main organs are in the upper body. The prisoner will not die at once, but will be sober after cutting, and it will take a long time to die. Ming Chengzu cut his waist and killed Fang Xiaoru. It is said that after a knife, Fang Xiaoru crawled on his elbow, and even the word "usurp" was handwritten with blood. It took * * * twelve and a half times to die, that is, dismemberment. Quite simply, he put a rope around the victim's head and limbs, and five fast horses pulled him in five directions and tore him into six pieces. I remember 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. The five punishments are all beheading, gouging out eyes, cutting hands, gouging out eyes and cutting ears, that is, "cutting eight pieces." Usually, after killing someone, chop off the head, hands and feet, and then chop the trunk into three parts. After the death of Emperor Gaozu, Lv Hou caught his favorite concubine, Lady Ruyi, chopped off her hands and feet, cut off her nose, ears and tongue, gouged out her eyes and fed them to the pigsty. As a result, Lv Hou's own son was scared to death ... Ling Chi killed people first and then chopped them into meat paste, which was called "Qin". Those who are punished remember that there is a way out. 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 most famous person who developed into "the art of death penalty" was the great eunuch Liu Jin. It is said that it took him three days to die ... and the worst was Yuan Chonghuan, a famous anti-Qing star in the late Ming Dynasty. Because Emperor Chongzhen was tricked into collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, he was sentenced to death in the middle of the year. Before the execution, he covered himself with a fishing net (in order to make his muscles stand out and get stabbed) and paraded the streets, which Beijing knew nothing about. This is one of the official punishments in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Hanging is a common punishment abroad. People in China hang themselves with bowstring ... that is, they put the bow around the prisoner's neck, with the bowstring facing forward and the executioner turning the bow at the back. As the bow became tighter and tighter, the prisoner's anger became less and less, and finally he died ... Yue Fei and his son died in the storm pavilion, (because he was a hero, he couldn't be beheaded, so he had to get away with it) and the ghost king who died in the late Ming Dynasty. 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 an urn ... Later, when Wu Zetian heard about it, she called Lai Junchen and asked him what to do if the prisoner refused to confess. Lai Junchen proudly said this method, and Wu Zetian simply said, "Then please go to the urn" and burned Lai Junchen to death ... Sima Qian was imprisoned before writing Historical Records, and later he wrote "I am a boudoir minister" in Bao Ren. China's castration is exquisite. First, tie up the little brother with a rope (including the child's bag) to stop his bleeding and die naturally, and then cut him off with a sharp knife (all! Not just a little brother). 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 urinate, castration will be successful. If you can't urinate, even if that person is useless, he is likely to 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 kind of punishment is often offset by the death penalty of nobles, while on the contrary, women have claustrophobia. 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). Insert the needle between the nails. It is often used to bury female prisoners alive, which is a common means in war. Because it's labor-saving and fast. All prisoners of war buried alive in the war were told to dig their own holes. Sometimes the prisoners are killed first and then pushed down, but when time is not enough (or bullets need to be saved), they are pushed down directly and covered in the back. Torture in China has existed since ancient times. But I haven't heard of any celebrity who has been punished like this. What's more, people will bury themselves upright in the soil, exposing only one head, and then start abusing them ... Poisoning may be the only humane torture ... Among the ancient poisons in China, the most famous poison should be "pigeon", from which the idiom "Drink pigeon to quench thirst" comes. The stick punishment usually used for execution is wooden stake punishment. The stick punishment here is not beating people with a stick. The stick punishment mentioned here is to take a stick and insert it directly into a person's mouth or anal door. The whole stick sank into the stomach, which made people die miserably. There is no record of this kind of punishment in the official history, but it is mentioned in Jin Yong's novel "Chivalrous Man", and he nicknamed this kind of torture "Laughter". Sawing people alive with an iron saw seems to be as scary as peeling them at the end of the year. No wonder in the torture of hell, there is the torture of sawing people alive. However, people who see life and death not only exist in the legendary hell, but also exist in the world. According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Hao, the love princess of Emperor Wu Sun Hao, instructed his attendants to rob people of their property in the market. Chen Sheng, the corps commander in charge of fair trade, is a favorite of Sun Hao. He caught the robbers and brought them to justice. My concubine told Sun Hao that Sun Hao was furious, arrested Cynthia on the pretext of other incidents, sawed off Cynthia's head with a red-hot saw and threw his body under the stage. Broken spine When a person hates another person, he often thinks of breaking his spine. Breaking the spine is really a Japanese behavior, because if a person's spine is broken, he will die. In the history of China, spinal fracture is also a very important torture. According to the book "Shang Jun Rewarding Punishment", during the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Chonger planned to formulate the criminal law of the Ming Dynasty so that all people in China would abide by the law, so he consulted with doctors. Dian Jie, the famous minister of Ji Chonger, arrived late. Some people think that Dianjie is guilty and should be punished. Therefore, Ji Chonger approved the death of a broken vertebra. Scholar-officials in the state of Jin are not afraid of it. They said that Dian Jie had been in exile with Ji Chonger for 19 years and made great contributions. Now we are punished so severely occasionally, not to mention us. From then on, everyone was afraid of punishment and obeyed the law. In the story of Buddhist Yamaraja, there is a saying that Yamaraja is either black or white. Bai Xiang is the Lord of hell, ordered by hundreds of officials, surrounded by beautiful women; In the dark period, that is, two hours a day, I was subjected to copper enema. Similarly, human beings are tortured by pouring tin or lead. The melting point of tin is 232 degrees Celsius and that of lead is 327.4 degrees Celsius. Whether tin or lead is poured, people can be burned to death. Moreover, molten tin or lead will solidify into lumps as soon as it enters the stomach, and this heavy metal falling force can also kill people. Yangcheng, the queen of Liu Qu, the king of Changchuan in Han Dynasty, was jealous and overbearing. Liu Qu dotes on another Maggie named Rong Ai and drinks with her many times. She was so jealous that she told Liu Qu that Rong Ai's eyes were abnormal, probably because she was having an affair with someone. "Liu Quxin. Seeing Rong Ai embroidering the pattern on the collar, she grabbed the clothes in a rage and threw them into the fire to burn. Rong Ai saw that Liu Qu was angry, but he was not afraid. He committed suicide by jumping into the well. Liu Qu ordered someone to fish her out, but unfortunately she didn't die. Liu Qu's staff blamed Rong Ai. She confessed the affair, but Rongai was punished, but she casually said that she had an affair with the doctor. Liu Qu became more and more angry, so she tied Rong Ai to a post, gouged out her eyes with a red-hot sharp knife, cut off the meat on her thighs, and finally poured molten lead into her mouth, thus destroying Rong Ai. The decoration here is not a woman's decoration, but an extremely cruel punishment. It refers to scraping off a person's meat with an iron brush until the meat is gone and finally he dies. The real inventor of the punishment of grooming is Zhu Yuanzhang. According to Shen Wen's "Politics of the Sages", when the punishment of persuasion was carried out, the executioner stripped the prisoner naked, put him naked on the iron bed, poured boiling water on him several times, and then brushed off his flesh with an iron brush. It's like folk killing pigs after scalding with boiling water until the skin is brushed and the bones are exposed, and the punished person dies before it's over. The punishment of modification has the same effect as the punishment of 2008. According to "Biography of Huan in the Old Tang Dynasty", Wu Sansi sent to catch Huan, dragged him around with a bamboo fork, and then killed him with a stick.