In those days, it was to cut off a person's meat one by one until the meat was almost cut, and then cut off his head by caesarean section to kill the prisoner. Therefore, the festival is also called cutting, cutting, inch cutting and so on. As the saying goes, "thousand dollars" refers to one year in a year. In the Ming Dynasty, there were two famous cases of execution by Ling Chi, and the number of knives was recorded accurately, which may be a world record. One is Liu Jin, the eunuch of Zheng De, and the other is Zheng Zhi, a scholar in Chongzhen period. Zhicheng Deng's "Continued Bone Dong" Volume II said: "In secular terms, the penalty for an inch in the Ming Dynasty is Liu Jin 4,200 yuan, Zheng Zhi 3,600 yuan, and Li Ciming's diary also said." The number of times recorded by Liu Jin here is inaccurate. In fact, Liu Jin was cut by 3357 knives. Such a large number is really amazing.
Extreme death penalty-in.