In ancient times, some people who were sentenced to be beheaded had to laugh and bribe the executioners? I see!
Sentenced to beheading, but laughing at the executioner? It is nothing more than two words "afraid of pain"!
Don't think it's a joke, it's true. Waist beheading is different from beheading, the latter goes down with a knife and cuts off the neck, and in an instant he dies. However, if you catch up with the executioner to make it bad, you have to cut a few more knives, the taste is not good, so in ancient times, the prisoner's family would also "honor" the executioner in advance. I have read a book from the late Qing Dynasty, which states the items and quantities that the families of prisoners need to "honor".
A fat chicken, two fresh fish, two pots of wine, a piece of pork, half a piece of cloth, and some silver money are required.
It is not easy to say in terms of money, it can only be that there is more money to give, no money to give less, there is really no, if the female relatives are willing to live with the executioner for a few days, they can also be exempted. Because few executioners have a family, they do not refuse. But if you don't have filial piety in place, then this prisoner will have to ask for more blessings for himself, and most of them will be tortured, and those spectators in the Qing Dynasty are the same as those written by Lu Xun. They would like to see more, and even the rich would throw money at the court and ask the executioner to execute slowly so that he could get over his eyes.
Waist beheading is more sin than beheading, waist beheading is not like beheading, a knife down can be a life whimpering unconscious, but to struggle for a period of time, before slowly out of breath. This is already very sinful and undignified, and it would be too uncomfortable and embarrassing for the executioner to take it slow and deliberately torture people.
In addition, it needs to be noted that the large axe used in the early days of the waist chopper, that is, the large axe, was later changed to a knife, but no matter what is used, it will not kill people at once, death is not terrible, and slow death is the most terrible. Most of the people who have committed the punishment of waist beheading are officials, and the small people have no right to "enjoy" this kind of high-end goods, and this kind of high-ranking officials and nobles usually treat themselves with dignity and superiority, and they cherish their faces extremely, and they struggle and howl on the execution ground to lose face. Isn't That the end of Lisi? Therefore, before the execution, the family should be deliberately dotted, arranged up and down, and paid a smiley face and put on a silver prisoner to suffer less.
And the executioner is also willing to do this job, this is the job of others, doing this line of work, just take this opportunity to ask for silver, why not enjoy it!