In today's era of the rule of law, "the legal system" is often mentioned once. With the increasing popularity of the law, people's way of solving problems is no longer only by force, but more and more use legal means to protect their rights and interests. In order to maintain the credibility of the law, so that everyone who abides by it will naturally have corresponding punishment measures. Since ancient times, there have been many punishments. Among them, the most frightening and cruel punishment is "Ling Chi". So how cruel is this "Ling Chi"? According to records, people who were punished by Ling Chi in ancient times often died in such a miserable state that people could not bear to look directly. For example, the great eunuch Liu Jin of the Ming Dynasty was sentenced to 3,357 knives by Ling Chi, and the punishment lasted for three whole days. There was another person who was Ling Chi in the Ming Dynasty, and that was Yuan Chonghuan. It is said that in the end, he only had a skeleton left, and all the flesh on his body was cut off.

"Ling Chi" did not exist from the beginning. The ancient legal system and its punitive measures have also undergone long-term evolution and development. Since the beginning of and of the Xia Dynasty, there should have been records about criminal law. The official establishment of our legal system was during the Warring States Period. The vassal states began to pay attention to the formulation of laws. issued corresponding laws and regulations of to maintain national unity and stability. Consolidate rule. The Qin Dynasty continued Shang Yang 's "Law of the Law" and supplemented it on this basis, updated and formed "Qin Law", and promulgated "Nine Chapter Laws" on the basis of "Qin Law". The codification of these laws has had a profound and lasting impact on the codification of and later laws. In the Tang Dynasty, a complete legal system was established. And "Tang Lu Shu Yi" is the most complete code in the history of China , which provides us with extraordinary reference value, literary value and historical value.

Penalty, as a concomitant of law, is indispensable in the process of law enforcement.Therefore, the punishment of each dynasty has also been improved and extended. From the Xia Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were and five punishments . Five punishments, as the name suggests, are five kinds of punishments. During the Han Dynasty, they believed that the five punishments were too tragic, and began to reform the punishments. This change did not take place until the Southern and Northern Dynasties, when a new system of five punishments, including fencing, stick, prisoner, liu, and death, was formed, and this system has been adopted by later generations. It was used until the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the use of the new five punishments was stopped.

In addition to the five punishments, various dynasties and generations also had various cruel punishments. For example, Ming Taizu often used "skinning" as a punishment for corrupt officials, and in the end it developed into "living skinning". Another example is "cutting in half", "splitting the body by five horses", "cutting the scales of a fish" and so on. These are horrific and inhumane punishment measures. These measures often make prisoners feel the pain caused by punishment while being punished. It can also be said that life is not as good as life. Death, so it seems that the beheading that is commonly used in many scripts is not painful or itchy. Similar to the fish scale cut is "Ling Chi", "Ling Chi" can be said to be the most cruel means of punishment, if it is the first of many punishments, it is not an exaggeration.

Take Liu Jin mentioned at the beginning of the article as an example. Liu Jin, as a great eunuch with power and power, used to test the skills of power and intrigue to find a good future for himself. The existence of one person and above ten thousand people. But when what he had done was exposed, he was sentenced to capital punishment by the emperor on the charge of treason. This capital punishment is "Ling Chi". According to relevant records, the executioner will cut off the flesh of Liu Jin bit by bit when he is awake, and maintain Liu Jin's sanity. He will hang Liu Jin with various drugs to prevent him from dying. God, Liu Jin was slashed 3357 times on his body, and at the end of the last knife, Liu Jin had already looked like a person who didn't look like a ghost or a ghost.It is enough to imagine how cruel the scene of these three days was and how painful the tortured people were.

If Liu Jin deserves to be tortured, after all, he is not a good person, then Yuan Chonghuan, who also belongs to the Ming Dynasty, feels indignant when he is "Ling Chi". At the same time, he was heartbroken by the pain Yuan Chonghuan suffered. Yuan Chonghuan can be said to be single-minded for the country. In the two years of Chongzhen , he successfully repelled the invasion of Huang Taiji , but because of the dissatisfaction of Wei Zhongxian in the court, he impeached him, and the foreign enemy Huang Taiji did not eliminate this serious concern. Reverse the plan and alienate the trust between Yuan Chonghuan and Ming Sizong. Under this internal and external attack, Yuan Chonghuan exchanged his heart for Lingchi's torture. A sincere heart was dead at the moment the sentence was pronounced, and the blood was drained, leaving only a white bone, and the flesh and blood of that body was cut off and became the "victory" of the treacherous enemy. It is precisely because the punishment of "Ling Chi" is too cruel and inhumane that people protested in the late Qing Dynasty and wanted to depose Ling Chi.

Thirty-one years after Guangxu's reign, the punishment that persecuted many prisoners was finally abolished, "Ling Chi" has finally become a piece of writing in the history books, and this cruel punishment has finally passed away from the world. Today, thousands of years later, punishment has been continuously improved and perfected, becoming more reasonable and humane, and better serving the law rather than breaking it. Now, understanding how these punishments came into being and how they disappeared, combined with their corresponding dynasties, can give us a lot of inspiration. These inspirations are also a kind of warning. Learn from the lessons of predecessors , and don't let the mistakes of predecessors happen again in On us now or in the future. This is also in a sense: "If you don't listen to the old man's words, you will suffer in front of you".
