Where does the eunuch cut and how to pee?

The first step is to cut the testicles. Cut a deep hole in the left and right sides of the balloon, cut the tendon and squeeze out the testicles. This requires the eunuch to straighten his body and bulge his stomach. The testicles will be squeezed out with all their strength, and the knife maker will stick a pig gall on the left and right sides of the balloon.

Step two, cut the penis. This requires quite high technology. If you cut it shallow, you will leave more potential. In the future, the fragile bones inside will bulge out, so we must make up the second knife, which is commonly known as "brushing stubble" in the palace. If you cut it deeply, it will collapse into a pit after healing, and it will be fan-shaped when urinating, which will make life inconvenient. Nine out of ten eunuchs in the palace have the problem of urine crotch, which is the sequela of castration. After the penis is cut off, a barley straw should be inserted, and the other pig gall should be split and applied to the wound in a butterfly shape. It is said that some people also insert a suppository-shaped pewter needle into the urethra and cover the wound with paper soaked in cold water. This is probably the technical difference between different cleaning sites.

After the operation, the castrated person must walk indoors for two to three hours with the help of one person, and then he can rest on his back. Three days after the operation is the hardest time for the castration. During these three days, they were lying on the special door panel, their hands and legs were firmly tied by locks, and they could not move at all. The main purpose is to avoid contact with the wound to avoid infection. There is also a small hole with a trap in the middle of the door panel to facilitate defecation. At that time, there was no good analgesic and anti-inflammatory means. In order to avoid wound infection, it is forbidden to drink water, which is an abnormal pain. After three days, you can urinate by pulling out the gray needle or straw, and the operation is successful. However, the suffering is not over yet, and the most important thing is to pat your legs. Every time you slap, your heart is broken, your liver is broken, and your whole body is shaking, but castration is necessary, otherwise it may lead to rickets, and you can't stand up straight all your life, so you can only endure this severe pain. The aftercare period will take about 100 days.

Every castrated man has experienced painful torture without exception. This process is so cruel and painful that castrated people will remember it all their lives. Ma Deqing, a eunuch in the late Qing Dynasty, recalled in his later years:

At that time, there were no anesthetics, no needles, no hemostatic drugs, etc ... How painful it would be for a lively child to press there and cut his deadly organs off him! One pulse leads to the heart, and I feel so distressed that I almost jumped out of my mouth ... After the operation, I must insert a tube in the urethra, otherwise, the granulation will be necrotic and the urine will not be discharged. I have to have a second operation. Later, I heard from people who knew about it. After cutting that thing, the wound can't scar quickly ... so change the medicine often. Honestly, where is medicine? It's just cotton paper coated with Bai La, sesame oil and pepper. It hurts like hell every time I change my dressing.

I remember, at that time, I was lying on the heatable adobe sleeping platform all day ... my spine seemed to be broken, and I wanted to turn over, but I was afraid to move. It's just that I owe a little, and the wound hurts! I just lie down and pee. The bottom is covered with dust, which changes every day and is wet.

The cut penis is called a "treasure". Under normal circumstances, the knife maker does hide it like a "treasure", but the washed person has no right to retrieve it. After knife processing, "Bao" will usually be put into "Sheng", wrapped in red cloth and carefully placed in a high place indoors, which means promoting to a higher position and making a fortune, so as to wish honest people good luck in the future and promotion step by step. When the pure man becomes rich and redeems his "treasure", the knife maker can take the opportunity to measure the money and ask for it. Redemption of one's own property was called "the return of flesh and blood" by eunuchs. For them, this is the biggest happy event in their lives, and the ceremony is very grand, just like marrying a bride. There are also cases in which the family members of the clean body are preserved. In the past, the poor families in rural areas were nothing more than beams, so they were hung on beams and raised every year to wish their children a "step by step promotion" in the palace.

There are three reasons for keeping the "treasure": First, check the eunuch when he is promoted to prove his identity, which is usually called "treasure-hunting"; Second, after the death of eunuchs in the future, they should put the "treasure" in a coffin and bury it together, because eunuchs hope to restore the true colors to men when they go to another world or are reincarnated; Thirdly, in the tradition of China, there is a concept that parents are deeply influenced by their bodies. Eunuchs, as survivors of punishment, are unfilial, and they are even more unfilial because they cannot carry on the family line. Therefore, it is also a kind of psychological compensation to keep the "treasure" and bury it with the coffin after death.

In particular, it should be pointed out that although castration is a necessary prerequisite for becoming a eunuch, not everyone who has been castrated can successfully enter the DPRK, and there have been strict selection systems and procedures throughout the dynasties. However, regardless of whether he entered the imperial court or not, the castrated person began a completely different life. Because of this, they generally believe that all the joys and sorrows of life begin from the date of castration, which becomes their new birthday, and the future fortune-telling is also based on heavenly stems and earthly branches, who was castrated.