The criminal law of the top ten torture cases in the Qing Dynasty introduced peeling. When peeling, the skin on the back was cut in half with a knife, and the skin was slowly separated from the muscle with a knife, tearing like a butterfly spreading its wings ... The most difficult thing was the fat man, because there was still a pile of oil between the skin and the muscle, which was 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 of the heavy proportion of mercury, it will pull muscles away from the skin, and people buried in the soil will writhe painfully, but they can't break free. Finally, the body will jump out of the mouth above the head, leaving only a piece 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. Because waist chop cuts people from the middle, and the main organs are in the upper body, the prisoner won't die at once, but he will be sober after cutting, and it will take a long time to die. Some people think that Fang Xiaoru was beheaded, but he was actually executed that year. It is very simple to dismember the victim, that is, put a rope on the victim's head and limbs, and five fast horses pull him in five directions and tear him into five pieces, because the head falls off first, followed by the arm. When only two legs are connected to the trunk, the pulling force will break one of the legs and the trunk will stay on the other leg. But according to the theory of blood, it is not necessarily that the limbs will break from the established parts, because the wrists and ankles are much more fragile than the roots. 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. Splash of blood is its terror. < The five punishments are > beheading, gouging out eyes, chopping hands, gouging eyes and cutting ears, that is, "cutting eight pieces". Generally, after killing a person, his head, hands and feet are cut off, and then his trunk is cut into three sections. After the death of Emperor Gaozu, he arrested his concubine, Mrs. Qi, cut off her hands and feet, cut off her nose, ears and tongue, gouged out her eyes, and threw them in the pigsty to feed her. As a result, Lv Hou's own son was scared to death ... The earliest way was to kill people and then chop them into paste, which was called "Qi". People who were punished by this kind of punishment remembered Boycott, the eldest son of Luz and Zhou Wenwang. 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 from their feet, and a total of 1000 knives are cut, that is, 1000 pieces of meat are cut, before prisoners are allowed to 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 ... this was one of the official punishments in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Fang Xiaoru in the Ming Dynasty just didn't respect Judy's wishes, so he was killed. (Finally destroyed ten families! There were only nine clans, so Judy killed some students and friends in Fang Xiaoru. In foreign countries, hanging is a common punishment. In China, hanging is to kill people with bowstring ... that is, the bow is put around the prisoner's neck, the bowstring goes forward, and the executioner starts to turn the bow at the back. The bow became tighter and tighter, and the prisoner's anger became less and less. Finally, he gave up the ghost ... Yue Fei and his son died in Fengfengge (because he was a hero, he could not be beheaded, so he had to get away with it). Wang Gui, who was exiled in the late Ming Dynasty, also died. The story is that Zhou Xing and Lai Junchen, two ministers of Wu Zetian, were famous brutal officials at that time, and thousands of people died unjustly under their hands. On one occasion, someone secretly accused Zhou Xing and Qiu of conspiring against each other. Wu Zetian sent ministers to hear the case and set a deadline to judge the result. Lai Junchen and Zhou Xingping have a good relationship and feel very difficult. He thought hard and came up with a plan. One day, Lai Junchen deliberately invited Zhou Xing, and they had a drink and chatted. Laijunchen pretended to be sad and said to Zhou Xing, "Alas! Interrogation of prisoners has always been fruitless recently. Ask brother, I don't know what's new? " Zhou Xing, who has always been good at studying instruments of torture, proudly said: "I have just invented a new method recently, and I am not afraid that prisoners will not confess. Use a big urn with a red-hot charcoal fire around it, and then put the prisoner in. No matter how stubborn people are, they can't stand the smell. " Hearing this, Lai Junchen ordered his men to bring a big urn and burn it with charcoal fire according to the method Zhou Xing just said. Lai Junchen suddenly stood up and lowered his face and said to Zhou Xing, "Someone accused you of rebellion, and the Queen Mother asked me to interrogate you. If you don't confess honestly, I'll have to invite you into this big urn! " Zhou Xing was terrified and knew that he was born to die, so he bowed his head and pleaded guilty. Sima Qian was imprisoned, and then he wrote an immortal historical record, which is why he wrote the sentence "I am a boudoir minister" in his letter to Ren. China's castration is exquisite. First, tie up the little brother with a rope (including the child's bag), let the blood not circulate and die naturally, and then cut it 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 pee, 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 you have to castrate a eunuch. You'd better castrate him when 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. Relative to women, it is "claustrophobia". Everyone has different views on strangulation. Some people say that it is to cut off all below the knee, some people say that it is to cut off the foot, some people say that it is to cut off the kneecap, and the third one 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). & lt Insert the needle into your fingernail. Often used for female prisoners. Burying alive 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. A little harder, people will be buried upright in the soil, only one head will be exposed, and then they will start to abuse ... Burying alive should be the usual trick of the Japanese army during the Nanjing Massacre. & lt Poisoning may be the only humane form of torture ... The most famous poison in ancient China was to fight poison with poison, from which the idiom "Drink poison to quench thirst" came. Often used in the case of death. & lt club punishment > that is, wooden stake punishment. What I'm talking about here is stick punishment, not hitting people with sticks. The stick punishment mentioned here is to take a stick and insert it directly into a person's mouth or anus. 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". < Saw > Sawing a person alive with an iron saw seems to be as scary as year-end and peeling. No wonder there is torture of sawing people alive in hell torture. 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, the concubine of Sun Hao, the emperor of the State of Wu, ordered 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. When a person hates another person very much, 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 story. There are clear rewards and punishments. During the Spring and Autumn Period, Ji Chonger planned to make the criminal law explicit so that all the people in China would abide by the law, so he consulted with the 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 execution of the broken vertebra. The scholar-officials in the state of Jin were very afraid. They said: "Chu Jian went into exile with Ji Chonger in other countries 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 Yamaraja in Buddhism, Yamaraja said that Bai Xiang was the Lord of hell, and there were hundreds of officials and beautiful women around him. 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℃, and that of lead is 327.4℃. Whether pouring tin or lead can burn people to death. Moreover, molten tin or lead will solidify into lumps as soon as it enters the stomach, and the falling force of this heavy metal can also cause death. 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 said to Liu Qu, "Rong loves to look at people a little abnormally, probably because she is having an affair with someone." Liu Quxin believed it. 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 was very scared to see Liu Qu angry. She threw herself into the well. Liu Qu ordered someone to fish her out, but unfortunately she didn't die. Liu Qubang blamed Rong Ai. She confessed the affair, but Rong Ai was punished. She just 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 grooming mentioned here is not a woman's grooming, but an extremely cruel punishment. It refers to watering people with boiling water first, then brushing the meat off them with an iron brush until the meat is bare and finally they die. 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 once sent Zhou Lizhen to catch Huan, dragged him around on a bamboo raft, and then killed him with a stick. & lt Playing Pipa > Playing Pipa is very simple and easy. This refers not to the musical instrument pipa, but to scraping off the human pipa bones (tendons) one by one with a sharp blade, which should have been used in the Ming Dynasty at the earliest. In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang once smoked the intestines of death row inmates. The specific method is to tie a rope in the middle of a crossbar and hang it high on the wooden frame. One end of the wooden pole has an iron hook, and the other end is covered with stones, like a huge weight. Put down the hook at one end, insert it into the prisoner's anus, pull out the head of the large intestine, hang it on the hook, and then pull down the stone at the other end, so that when one end of the hook rises, the prisoner's intestines are pulled out and hung high in a straight line. The prisoner screamed a few times and soon died. The torture used by Ming officials caught by Zhang in the late Ming Dynasty is also shit. The practice is to dig out the head of the large intestine from the anus with a knife, tie it to the horse's leg, let a person ride on the horse and draw it far away with a whip. The crow of the horse affects the intestines. The longer it is pulled, the more it is torn, and the person who is pulled out will die immediately. Riding a donkey is an instrument of torture used in ancient times to punish women who colluded with adulterers to murder their husbands. According to the Romance of Twenty-four Histories, riding a wooden donkey in the late Ming Dynasty is like this: first, erect a wooden post on a piece of wood, hang the woman, put it on the top of the wooden post, let the wooden post poke into the vagina, then let go and let the woman's body fall down until the wooden post "passes through her nose and mouth", and the Japanese side dies. "