Whipping is a kind of torture to female prisoners in ancient times. "Putting a finger in it and then tightening it hard was a kind of torture in the old society. During the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the government once extorted confessions from female prisoners.
Ancient records:
1, Ming Lingmengchu's "Surprise at the First Moment" Volume 19: "The torture of Shen Chunjun and the accusation of the Lin family are undeniable, and they are confessed one by one."
Shen Chunjun was tortured and Lin Xiangru crushed his fingers, but they couldn't deny it and confessed one by one.
2. Zhang Fang/Wang Renzhi, "Selected Works of Time Theory in the First Ten Years of the Revolution of 1911", on the Trend of Revolution. The Qing law emphasized torture, and the punishments used were sticks, shackles, rafters, shackles, sticks, fingers, knees, questioning and so on. This is extremely cruel to the world. "
Extended data
Five tortures of ancient women:
1. Penalty: the penalty applicable to women's crimes in ancient times. After being subjected to corporal punishment such as flogging, he was escorted to the official government or border military camps to serve hard labor such as drying grain and rubbing rice.
2. flogging: a kind of torture applied to female prisoners in ancient times. Slapping is the punishment of pinching the prisoner's fingers, so it is also called flogging. During the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties, the government once tortured female prisoners to extract confessions.
3. Whipping: one of the five punishments since Sui and Tang Dynasties. Song, Ming and Qing dynasties stipulated that women must "strip off and receive a stick" when committing rape, which not only caused physical pain, but also achieved the effect of humiliation.
4. Riding a wooden donkey: This kind of torture device is specially designed for women who kill their husbands because of adultery, and of course it also includes those directly responsible for adultery. Riding a wooden donkey in the late Ming Dynasty is like this: first, erect a wooden post on a piece of wood, hang the punished woman, put it on the top of the wooden post, poke the wooden post into the vagina, then let it go and let the woman fall until the wooden post "passes through her nose and mouth, and the Japanese will die."
5. claustrophobia: castration of female prisoners began in Qin and Han dynasties. That is, hitting a woman's abdomen with a mallet artificially causes uterine prolapse, which is a kind of torture for adulterers.
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