Celebrities who died from torture in ancient China

1. Castration, also known as corruption, silkworm room, underworld punishment, death sentence or palace, is the castration of men

Sima Qian (135 BC - 90 BC), Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty In the third year of the Han Dynasty (98 BC), Li Ling was defeated and surrendered to the Huns. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious. The civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty believed that Li Ling was guilty of a serious crime and his whole family should be punished. Sima Qian Then Li Ling defended himself, angered Emperor Wu, and was thrown into prison and tortured

2. Minting punishment, also known as Jing Min, is a cruel death penalty in ancient China, which is to chop a person into mincemeat. According to legend, this punishment was created by King Zhou of Shang Dynasty to deal with the Nine Hous.

Zhong Yuan (542 BC - 480 BC), also known as Zilu, or Jilu, was a native of Lu and a famous disciple of Confucius. In 480 BC, Kong Kui was coerced into welcoming the then deposed prince Kuai Chi back to Wei as the king (that is, Wei Hou Gong Zhuang). In order to save Kong Kui, Zhong Yu fought with Ji Kuai's retainers. During the battle, the enemy used a sword to cut off the belt holding the crown. Zi Lu therefore stopped fighting, bent down, picked up the crown, and tied the belt. As a result, he was defeated and killed at the age of 63. He was tortured after his death

Peng Yue (? - 196 BC), courtesy name Zhong, was born in Changyi (now Jinxiang County, Shandong Province), Qin Dynasty A military and political figure in the late Han Dynasty and early Han Dynasty. In 196 BC, Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty, attacked Chen Xi, the Marquis of Yangxia, and asked Peng Yue to send troops to assist him. Peng Yue said he was ill and refused to go, so he only sent his men to lead his troops. After Liu Bang destroyed Chen Xi, someone accused Peng Yue of trying to rebel. After Peng Yue was arrested by Liu Bang's order, he was demoted to a commoner and sent to Qingyi County in Shu (now Sichuan). On the way, Peng Yue met Empress Lu and asked her for mercy, hoping to be sent back to his hometown Changyi. Empress Lu pretended to agree and took Peng Yue back to Luoyang, but then beheaded her body. Empress Lu punished him with minced meat (chopped into meat paste) and exterminated the Pengyue tribe.

3. Killing corpses generally refers to all punitive destruction of corpses. Killing corpses was included in the criminal law in ancient China. The common practice was to behead the dead body.

Corpse killings were also carried out during the Literary Prison of the Qing Dynasty. Lu Liuliang was killed together with his eldest son Lu Baozhong and disciple Yan Hongkui in a literary prison during the Yongzheng period.

4. Ink punishment, also known as tattoo punishment and face tattooing, is a punishment in ancient China. The prisoner's face or forehead is tattooed with words or patterns, and then dyed with ink, as a symbol of the victim. .

Yingbu during the Qin and Han dynasties was called "Taking Bu" because he was tattooed for breaking the law when he was young.

Shangguan Wan'er in the Tang Dynasty was tattooed because she offended Wu Zetian, leaving a tattoo on her forehead

5. Ling Chi, also known as Cun Zeng, gong, beheading, cut into pieces, written in the Qing Dynasty Death by an inch, commonly known as "cutting with a thousand cuts" or "killing with a thousand cuts" or "fishing net copying" (wrapping the prisoner's skin with a fishing net, and the executioner cuts off the raised skin), is one of the torture methods in China.

Liu Jin: A eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, it is said that he was sentenced to three days of torture and 3,300 cuts. During the execution, people onlookers in Beijing competed for his meat for a penny and drank wine and ate it raw to vent their anger.

Zheng Man: A common scholar during the Chongzhen period, he was framed by Wen Tiren and executed by Lingchi for being "unfilial to his mother."

Yuan Chonghuan: A famous general who fought against the Qing Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty. Emperor Chongzhen's Emperor Taiji counterattacked and thought Yuan Chonghuan was treason, so he was executed in Lingchi. After being escorted to the execution ground, before the executioner could take action, the onlookers in Beijing jumped on the deceased and bit his flesh, revealing his internal organs. Yuan Chonghuan screamed in agony. Later, they also competed to buy his meat and drank wine to vent their anger.

Shi Dakai: The wing king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who led his troops to be trapped in the Dadu River and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty to save the entire army. He was punished with his subordinates. He screamed in agony, and Shi Da scolded him: "Why can't you endure this for just a moment? It's so sweet to remember that our generation has achieved that." There was silence until death.

Kang Xiaoba: A vicious thief in Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty, he may have been the last person to be sentenced late in Chinese history.