What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Speaking of the more cruel punishment in ancient times, most of the first thing that comes to mind is the car crack and Ling Chi, the car split folk called "five horses split the corpse", that is, by the five carriages respectively tied to the prisoner's limbs and head to pull in 5 directions, because the power of the horse is very large, the human body will be dismembered in an instant, cruel to the extreme, Ling Chi folk called "a thousand knives and ten thousand knives", that is, by the executioner a knife a knife to cut off the flesh of the human body of a punishment, the Ming Dynasty eunuch Liu Jin was executed by this punishment, the whole 3357 knives before death, But the punishment to be spoken of today is more creepy than these two sounds, and this punishment is skinning.
Peeling this kind of punishment is not to feel a little cool, afraid, miserable, but peeling this kind of punishment is aimed at plotting rebellion, such as the punishment of major evil criminals, peeling began in the Three Kingdoms, extinct in the Qing Dynasty, of which the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang loved to use this punishment to punish officials, and the peeled human skin was filled with grass, hung outside the yamen to show the public, to give the officials at that time a deterrent.
The peeling records that the knife is from the back of the human back, and then slowly spread to the sides like butterfly wings, separating the skin from the flesh. At first, the prisoner was stripped after death, and then directly peeled alive, the last emperor of the Wu kingdom during the Three Kingdoms period, Sun Hao, this person was cruel and loved to kill, he liked to peel people's faces, that is, to peel off the skin on the faces of prisoners for fun, cruel to the extreme.
During the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan killed the corrupt official Ahma, raided his home, and found 2 complete human skins in the wardrobe of his concubine Yingzhu, and there were complete ears on the human skin, asking what he was doing, the citing pillar said that it was used for curses, and Kublai Khan then ordered that Yingzhu and her painters and four cronies be skinned and shown to the public.
In the Ming Dynasty, this punishment was often used, especially Zhu Yuanzhang, who tried and tried many times, because Zhu Yuanzhang was born poor, his parents were starved to death, and he was well aware of the sufferings of the people, so he especially hated the officials who took the imperial grain and greedy money, so in the Ming Dynasty," the "Brief Record of Awakening Greed" stipulated that all officials who were greedy for more than 60 taels could be skinned, and the peeling was peeled at the land temple in the local county, and the people also called the pichang temple. One of the most famous is the founding general of the Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu, who was proud of his merits and later plotted against the defendants, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered his skin to be peeled, and the skin of the three tribes was found in the inner mansion when Zhang Xianzhong later attacked the city of Chengdu.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Xianzhong invaded Sichuan and established his own political power Dashun, in Sichuan Zhang Xianzhong was cruel and addicted to killing, it is said that he was uncomfortable without killing people, perhaps he saw the skin of blue jade, Zhang Xianzhong often peeled people's skins in Sichuan, at that time there was a county order in Chengdu called Gong Wanjing, this person was a Ming Dynasty county order, after Zhang Xianzhong attacked Sichuan, he verbally expressed his submission, Zhang Xianzhong sent people to supervise him, and later the defendant said that he did not write letters at home and did not recognize Dashun, this matter was known by Zhang Xianzhong and was furious and sent people to take it , directly peeled alive to warn everyone.
With the development of the times, some inhuman punishments have slowly withdrawn from the stage, leaving people with only appalling history.