In ancient times, there was a penalty called "annual income". How cruel?

Years, which is what people call "thousands of films". In the name of the death penalty, it refers to cutting off a person's flesh with a knife when executing a person. This is a punishment of dismemberment, that is, cutting off the limbs of the body. This kind of punishment is to chop the prisoner into minced meat after death. In this way, it sounds that some friends will find it horrible and cruel.

But the ancients in order to increase the pain of the condemned man. Gradually evolved into the year. In the Qing dynasty, this punishment was the standard way to execute a wicked man who committed the most heinous crimes. Generally, there are two executioners, starting from the prisoner's feet and cutting from bottom to top, totaling 1000 knife. In other words, you have to cut off 1000 pieces of the prisoner's meat to let the prisoner die. If the prisoner dies halfway, the executioner will be punished.

The real "eight-knife punishment" execution. Eight knives, the executioner used a basket of numbered sharp knives: the first knife, cutting the chest (all from the left and other parts below); The second knife, cut the biceps; The third knife, thigh; The fourth knife and the fifth knife cut the arm to the elbow; The sixth knife and the seventh knife cut the calf to the knee; Eighth knife, first knife. It was the practice in the late Qing Dynasty that the dismembered remains were put in a basket and the heads were displayed in public indefinitely.

In China, the punishment of the year of the year of the year appeared in the Five Dynasties, and officially became the official punishment in the Yuan Dynasty, which was listed in the same code as the punishment of beheading. In the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang included Ling Chi in his criminal law "Da Gao" and widely implemented it. During the Song Dynasty, the execution methods of annual imprisonment were different. In the Song Dynasty, only eight knives were cut to 120 knives a year, while in the Qing Dynasty, there were four knives, 36 knives, 72 knives and 120 knives. By the Ming Dynasty, this method of execution had reached its extreme, often exceeding 1,000 knives and even reaching more than 3,000 knives at most. For example, Liu Jin, a great eunuch in the Ming Dynasty, was sentenced to death with 3,000 knives.

Many people were executed by Ling Chi in history, including Fang Xiaoru, a master of Confucianism in the early Ming Dynasty, Yuan Chonghuan, a famous soldier in Chongzhen, Geng, who launched the San Francisco Rebellion in Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, and Shi Dakai, the wing king of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The last person recorded in the history of China who was executed by Ling Chi was Xu Xilin, a member of the Guangfu Association in the late Qing Dynasty. 1907 was arrested for the attempted assassination of Anhui Governor Enming, and Xu Xilin was executed in the year.