What is certain is that tiger stools, thick sticks, sticks and other instruments of torture were widely used in yamen in the late Qing Dynasty. When the imperial court suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the White Lotus Sect, the Boxer Rebellion and other peasant uprisings, there was no lack of cruel persecution of prisoners and prisoners with torture such as tiger benches, pepper water and sticks.
Basic structure of tiger stool
One end of the bench is vertically installed with a wooden stake or column, and the included angle between the wooden stake or column and the bench is 90 degrees. When being punished, you need to put bricks under the victim's feet, so you will put some bricks on the other end of the bench in advance. In the Qing dynasty, some so-called exquisite tiger stools were also attached with leather covers to bind and fix the body and thighs, and the bricks at the feet were blue bricks.
There are also wooden sticks that clamp the knees and calves and exert heavy pressure. The yamen call this heartless wood. During the Republic of China, some tiger stools had cross-shaped wooden columns and iron locks at both ends of the shelves, which could fix the prisoners' wrists on the shelves. The upper end of the cross is just aligned with the prisoners' necks, and the rope is tied here to tie them up and strangle them.
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