From ancient times to the present, everyone understands that a person who makes a mistake must be responsible and pay the due price. Especially in the historical stage of feudal society, the monarchy is above all else, and the monarch will generally choose the rule of law in order to better enhance the absolute monarchy. After the Qin Dynasty implemented the Shang Martingale Transformation Law, it became a big country and finally completed the great unification of the nation, so the moderate rule of law can manage the country more strongly, making the country richer and stronger.
However, because the imperial power is above all else, then the status of the people will be relatively low, so when the common people make mistakes, they will be punished, and many punishments do not fully respect human rights. For example, the well-known beheading shows the public, Ling Chi execution (Ling Chi execution is to strip a person naked, the body is wrapped in a fishing net, and then cut off the flesh piece by piece with a knife, so that people continue to die in pain. ）
The Punishment of Cannon Burning (The punishment of cannon branding occurred in the Shang Tang stage, Xi Bohou was previously tortured by cannon burning, after burning the pillar head red, and then pressing the person close to the already red pillar head, making the human body feel the pain of the cone. ）
The Punishment of the Pot (Throwing a man out of his coat and throwing him into a snake's nest, his body being bitten by thousands of snakes, and dying in fear and pain.) Five horses were divided into corpses, and these were cut off at the waist. There are countless punishments for ancient people, although the punishment is to better punish those who have already made mistakes, and at the same time, in order to better remind others not to do wrong things, but it is a huge insult to people's self-esteem.
In fact, in ancient China, there was also a kind of punishment called ice punishment, but it was not very common, and today everyone will generally understand it.
China's ancient science and technology is not developed, compared to today, we can have ice water, ice cubes at any time. In the summer, we can take a cold drink from the refrigerator to cool down, clear the heat and remove the fire.
In ancient China, in order to obtain ice cubes, the procedures were very complicated, and in the case of winter, the ice was dug up and put into the basement, carefully stored, and then the ice stored in the previous year was taken out to cool off in the case of the summer of the following year.
Therefore, ice is not something that ordinary people can enjoy, and it is very easy to take ice in the winter stage, but in order to store it, it must be highly invested in human and material resources, so ice torture is not very common.
Even if ice is not easy to come by, ice punishment is also a very luxurious punishment. Ice punishment is actually to make the criminal sit on the ice and suffer the ravages of the cold.
With the depth of the case, the punishment will gradually increase, the prisoner must take off his clothes, sit naked on the ice, you may not feel anything, but if you sit on the ice for a long time, it will cause poor blood circulation, skin frostbite or even atrophy, until completely destroyed, usually people who have experienced ice torture, most of them are disabled. Compared with the five horses and corpses, the ice punishment is already very gentle.
However, the devastation inflicted by ice torture is not physical, but a large number of them are mental, because in the process of implementing ice punishment, it is necessary to sit on the ice without clothes. In the period of feudal society, it was a huge stampede and insult to self-esteem.
Many people usually say it long before the implementation of ice punishment, in fact, ice punishment mostly uses the weakness of human nature, the physical destruction is small, and the spiritual essence is very cruel. Compared with the five horses divided into corpses and beheaded for public display, the ice punishment is to make people suffer from insanity.
I think that the people who promoted ice punishment in ancient China must have a bad personal style. For example, the maid in the palace did everything in her power to attract the emperor, in order to better obtain the emperor's care, as everyone knows, the concubines in the palace are difficult to accept, so they give this maid ice torture, so that she loses her self-esteem, even if she survives, there is no face. The ice torture did not mutilate her, and public opinion could completely kill her.
Summary: In the stage of feudal society, the method of punishment is not as sound as it is today, so in many cases, the method of extorting a confession by torture will be chosen, but the vast majority of torture to extract a confession still has a certain practical effect. In fact, I think that no matter what mistakes people make, they should save their due self-esteem. Everyone will make mistakes in their lifetime, but please remember: do not do it with good and small, and do not do it with evil.