The ending of Sandalwood Punishment is: Zhao Jia’s son was killed, Zhao Jia was killed by Mei Niang, and Mei Niang ran away.

"Sandalwood Punishment" is one of Mo Yan's masterpieces, published in 2001. Taking the Germans' construction of the Jiaoji Railway in Shandong in 1900, Yuan Shikai's suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong, the Eight-Power Allied Forces' capture of Beijing, and Cixi's hasty escape as the historical background, it tells the story of a chaotic movement and an appalling incident that took place in "Northeast Gaomi Township" Torture, a thrilling love.

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"Sandalwood Punishment" is a novel that the writer Mo Yanlidan painstakingly crafted. In this work with exquisite structure and rich language, it truly reproduces a civil anti-colonial struggle event that occurred in the Shandong Peninsula in the late Qing Dynasty. Sun Bing, a folk artist who took the lead in the anti-colonial struggle, was eventually given the "sandalwood punishment."

The work takes "torture" as the main line and shows many thrilling events in the political decline of the Chinese dynasty, including the Reform Movement of 1898, the Boxer Rebellion, the plundering of foreign colonists, etc. The novel revolves around the implementation of sandalwood punishment, vividly showing the cruelty and inhumanity of feudal kingship and power struggle. It also highlights the historical mechanism of autocratic power acting on individuals, and successfully reflects the black soil and ground on which autocratic power relies for its survival. The Law of Darkness. ?

The novel depicts a large number of vivid characters, such as the romantic troupe leader Sun Bing, the Gaomi magistrate Qian Ding with a sense of justice, the executioner Zhao Jia who retired from the lobby of the Ministry of Justice in the capital and returned to his hometown. His daughter, goddaughter, daughter-in-law Sun Meiniang, cruel and cunning politician Yuan Shikai, etc.

Baidu Encyclopedia-"Sandalwood Punishment"