Top Ten Tortures in Manchu Qing Dynasty: Skin peeling and cramping is extremely cruel

Director Wang Jing has a famous third-level movie called "Top Ten Torture in the Manchu Dynasty". However, in fact, in the Qing Dynasty, there were more than ten terrible criminal laws, but because of this movie name, everyone summed up the criminal laws of the Manchu Dynasty into the top ten torture. Below, let's take a look at what kind of torture is used in Manchu.

The ten major tortures in the Manqing Dynasty include: skinning, waist beheading, car splitting, all five punishments, slashing, hanging, cooking, palace torture, torturing, insertion, burial alive, poison, stick torture, sawing, breaking vertebrae, filling lead, playing the pipa, pulling intestines, and riding a wooden donkey.

1. Skinning was a form of torture in ancient times. Different regions used different methods to peel off the skin of victims. Generally speaking, the skin is kept as intact as possible when peeling. In ancient China, mercury was used to inject between the victim's skin and body to peel off his skin; in Western society, a special peeling knife was used to cut off the victim's skin.

2. Waist cut Since the waist cut cuts the person from the middle, and the main organs are all in the upper body, the prisoner will not die at once. After the cut, he will be conscious and will take a while before he can breathe. In later generations, the axe was gradually replaced by guillotine. To appreciate the cruelty of waist beheading, it is enough to read the description of novelist Mo Yan.

3. The punishment of tearing a car into a car is like dividing a body by five horses. It is definitely one of the top ten tortures in the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Just think about it and you will know how cruel it is. There were not many people who died when a chariot was cracked in history. The more famous one was Lao Ai of the Qin Dynasty. Not only was this man split by the king of Qin, he also destroyed three clans. Shang Yang was also killed by the car, and Shang Yang's descendants were also implicated.

4. Lingchi is called a thousand cuts among the people. Its historical extent can be traced back to the Five Dynasties, and most of the people who were often sentenced to such capital punishment have been remembered in history. In the Qing Dynasty, if you violated ethics and morality, you would be punished by death.

5. Hanging head One of the ten major tortures in the Manchu Qing Dynasty can be understood as suicide and homicide. Because when the emperor ordered a person to die, if it was to hang himself, a white silk would be given to the prisoner to die with dignity, with the purpose of retaining the entire body; of course, if the prisoner did not want to be dignified, there were people who would make him dignified.

6. Palace punishment is a corporal punishment that removes a man's reproductive organs and causes a woman to lose her reproductive function. Men's palace punishment is also called "castration", and women's palace punishment is also called "claustrophobia". A hard object such as a wooden stick is used to hit a woman's lower abdomen, artificially causing uterine prolapse and causing the woman to lose her fertility). On the one hand, palace punishment has a great deterrent effect, and on the other hand, it can also show the king's "kindness", thus expanding the scope of application of palace punishment in laws and regulations.

7. When it comes to this criminal law, I think everyone is familiar with it. The most common one is the fragment from "Princess Huanzhu", which is the criminal law that Grandma Rong likes most. Inserting needles, that is, inserting needles between fingernails, is often used on female prisoners. Although this criminal law is invisible, its pain index is unimaginable. It is one of the top ten tortures in the Manchu Dynasty that truly kills people invisible.

8. Burial alive and buried alive is a common method during wartime. After Baiqi killed 400,000 Zhao troops in the pit, this has become a large-scale military pit killing. This is the ten most heartless torture in the Manchu Dynasty. There was no law at all in wartime. Only soldiers and people paid their lives for this punishment.

9. Intestinal withdrawal This criminal law is only for prisoners sentenced to death. The specific method is to tie a rope to the middle of a horizontal wooden pole. There is an iron hook at one end and a stone is let down at the other end. Then, the iron hook at one end is lowered and inserted into the prisoner's anus. The gravity of the stone is used to pull out all the prisoners intestines. This criminal law was invented by Zhu Yuanzhang. I have to say that it is a bit inhuman.

10. Riding a wooden donkey This was a torture specially used in ancient times to punish women who colluded with adulterers to murder their relatives. The specific method is that there will be a lotus-like iron in the middle of the wooden donkey, which can be retracted and unfolded, and then the iron is inserted into the female prisoner's vagina until the wooden pillar penetrates through the vagina. Just thinking about it, you know how cruel this criminal law is. It is worthy of being one of the top ten tortures in Manchu Dynasty.