The most brutal ancient punishment in the world

The penalties of the feudal dynasties are cruel that you can't imagine. They are all more terrifying punishments than death. Ling Chi is just one of them.

Ling Chi

Now that it's already Ling Chi, let's talk about it first. Ling Chi must be familiar to everyone, a torture that most often appears in film and television novels. Ling Chi was originally recorded as Ling Chi, from a sentence said by Xunzi .

Three feet of shore, and the virtual car can't board. Hundreds of thousands of mountains, take the car to board the Yan. What? Ling Chi also died.

Here is the meaning of slowness in the text . This punishment is to allow you to experience physical and psychological despair. Ling Chi also has a saying called a thousand swords and ten thousand cuts. People who endure this punishment as intended are to be killed with one knife and one knife. The flesh on his body came down until he died. That kind of bloody scene makes people shudder just thinking about it.

Pan

This punishment comes from the record in "The Legend of Fengshen", which is a poison punishment given by Su Daji to King Shang. It refers to digging a deep pit on a ground, and the bottom is filled with poisonous insects such as snakes, scorpions, bees, etc. The tortured person has to be stripped of clothing, thrown into the pit of poisonous insects, and bitten to death by insects.

Shelling

According to legend, this kind of punishment was also from Su Daji's hand. In the film and television series, we saw the fire that the king ordered people to burn the iron pillar to red, and the tortured person was tightly tied to the iron pillar until the victim To be roasted alive on the fire. In fact, it is said that not only to roast people to death, but also to roast people into dried meat before the execution is completed.

The origin of this punishment is said to be that when King Wang and Su Daji went on a trip, it happened to be in thunderstorm weather, and suddenly a lightning flashed across the sky between the mountains and the forest, igniting a big tree. Su Daji saw a fire under the tree, and many ants hurriedly climbed up the trunk, but the ants that could not stand the scald fell from the tree into the fire. Su Daji saw this situation and invented the torture of cannonball.

Light the sky lantern

The sky lanterns here are not the sky lanterns in "Tomb Raider Notes", but a kind of punishment. This penalty comes from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and Dong Zhuo died from this penalty. In ancient times, there was another name for lighting the sky lantern, which was called "human oil wax", which refers to the prisoner's clothes being pulled off, and the prisoner's whole body was wrapped in burlap and entered the oil tank. After the night, the prisoner was firmly tied up to a wooden stake with his head down and his feet up, and then set on fire from the footsteps until the prisoner's whole body was burnt.

However, in the modern Chuanxiang generation, there is another way to execute the sky lantern. A small hole is drilled in the prisoner’s head, and then the lamp oil is poured into the prisoner’s brain from the small hole, and finally the lamp oil is lit. This method will make the prisoner die. The process was extremely painful.

Peeling

This punishment is easy to make people look blue just by listening to the name. If Ling Chi is cruel, then this punishment is really no less than it. Although this punishment is cruel, there are indeed many records of this punishment in historical records. There are two records about the execution of this kind of punishment. One is that a cut is made from the spine to the coccyx, and the entire back skin of the person is divided into two halves. Then use a knife to separate the skin from the muscle, and then slowly tear it apart.

Another theory is that the victim was buried in the soil, with only one head exposed, a cross-shaped cut was made on the scalp with a knife, and then the scalp was pulled open and filled with mercury. Because mercury is very heavy, it can pull the muscles and skin apart in the process of influx, and people can't move when buried in the soil. Finally, when the person dies, the skin can be peeled off naturally. However, it is said that the earliest penalties for skinning were skinning only after death, and it gradually developed into alive skinning.

 Today's penalties are not as cruel as they were in ancient times, abiding by the law is still the social norm that every citizen should abide by. Knowing the law and abiding by the law can not violate the law. Everyone is responsible for observing discipline and law.