In ancient times, women "regarded their husbands as their guide" after marriage and had no place in the family. Modern women have long been liberated, and the concept of gender equality is unpopular. However, discrimination against women and domestic violence against women still exist in some central or individual families.
In the eighth lunar month of 2006, in a small mountain village in Xixiang County, Hanzhong City, Shaanxi Province, a wife killed her husband, which was causally related to domestic violence. One day in the eighth lunar month of 2006, the police in Xixiang County, Shaanxi Province received a murder case. The reporter was also the murderer, a woman named Yang (pseudonym), who reported that she hacked her husband Zhao Ziqiang (pseudonym) to death with an axe. The police inspected the scene and found that Zhao Ziqiang was hacked to death with sixteen axes at home; after further investigation and inspection, coercive measures were taken against Yang.
Yang, female, 26 years old, comes from a village in Gaochuan Town, Xixiang County. She has never been to school and her family is very poor. When she was 19 years old, her eyes were gouged out. She married Zhao Ziqiang and gave birth to two sons. Yang was born in a small mountain village in Gaochuan Town, Xixiang County. She is the youngest and the smartest. Yang is beautiful. When she was 17, she went to Guangzhou to work for a year; after her family found her husband's family, she returned to her hometown.
On April 19, 1999, Yang and his fiancé Cao Hongping got into a fight in the tea garden. Cao Hongping knocked her down and cruelly gouged out her eyes with his bare hands. Cao Hongping was later sentenced to death by the court. Yang's eyes were gouged out and he was desperate for a moment. At this time, a man named Zheng Jun (pseudonym) came over to propose to him. Yang got married without thinking and soon gave birth to a daughter. Zheng Jun is an idler who doesn't work. Later, the Yang family couldn't bear it anymore, so they divorced and left their daughter to Yang.
Yang’s family is quite poor, and Yang’s embarrassment is a drag on her family. In November 2001, she married her daughter Zhao Ziqiang, whose home is in an increasingly poor mountain village. Zhao Ziqiang is a rather rude person and has no feelings for Yang. Yang, who had been married to Zhao Ziqiang for more than five years, could not see him, but was still doing farm work and housework. Not only did she not receive Zhao Ziqiang's attention, she was often beaten and scolded by him.
After Yang gave birth to two sons, Zhao Ziqiang's condition became more and more serious. He not only beat Yang, but also beat Yang's daughter. Yang's mother came to visit her grandson and he even beat her mother-in-law. Yang understood that Zhao Ziqiang married him just to make the decision for him. Yang had to take her daughter away from her mother, and she stayed to accept it all. Later, Zhao Ziqiang threatened Yang more than once, not letting Yang tell anyone that he beat her, otherwise he would kill Yang's family; Yang Xisuo was in the house when he went out, pretending to be in jail.
On the evening of the eighth day of the eighth lunar month in 2006, Zhao Ziqiang went out to play cards and returned home. When Yang found out that her cooking skills were not good, she slapped her several times. He told Yang that he couldn't ask for anything from others. The reason was that Yang asked his neighbor for some tobacco leaves to treat athlete's foot. While Yang was on vacation, he forced Yang to drink cold water. Before going to bed at night, Zhao Ziqiang sharpened an ax and handed it to Yang, forcing Yang to commit suicide. Then he went to sleep.
Zhao Ziqiang never expected that Yang, who had always been submissive, was on the verge of adding fuel to the flames; early the next morning, Yang used a blind man's keen hearing to accurately find Zhao Ziqiang's head and face, and raised his ax to chop him to death. He killed Zhao Ziqiang and chopped him sixteen times. After dawn, Yang knocked on the neighbor's door and asked her to report the crime. Yang was sentenced to 12 years in prison for intentional homicide and was released at the end of 2014 after a reduced sentence.
While Yang was serving his sentence, his daughter lived in Suncun Orphanage, and his two sons were adopted by his aunt and others. After being released from prison, Yang came to work as a masseur in a blind massage parlor in Wenzhou and married a blind man. From then on, his life became stable. In this case, Yang is a tragic figure. It can be said that since her eyes were gouged out, her anger has been rising in her heart. Later, the twists and turns of fate caused her anger to accumulate. Zhao Ziqiang's endless domestic violence finally broke through the barrier of her psychological defense, and she burst into anger and killed with an axe.