Which dynasty was the most cruel punishment in ancient Chinese history

In fact, they are all cruel, if you have to excel from them, it is - the Shang Dynasty.

The Shang Dynasty was the first dynasty in the true sense of the word. China at this time was a slave country, and there was already a written oracle bone script. Various forms of corporal punishment are recorded on oracle bone inscriptions. So we can be sure that since the Shang Dynasty, there have been laws and punishments.

There is no doubt that the Shang Dynasty's concept of law was the belief that law was the embodiment of God's will. The punishment is also the divine foreshadowing, and as far as the punishment itself is concerned, it is believed that the Shang Dynasty had the death penalty of burying alive, burning, drowning, and beheading. But without a strict penal system, the Chinese at this time had already shown a certain brutality, which was manifested in a staggering number of human martyrs and human sacrifices, and the number of human martyrs and animals in the Shang Dynasty was terrifying, dozens or hundreds were very common.

On one occasion the king of Shang had ringing in his ears, and he killed thirty men to please God. The most reached "thousands of people and thousands of cows", but this account has different opinions. Some experts believe that it means keeping a thousand people and a thousand cows together to be slaughtered, but this is hateful enough.

The most credible record is the killing of 300 people. Judging from the unearthed records, there are also hundreds of burial companions. The number of people killed in a sacrificial sacrifice is recorded at 339, and the number of people buried in a tomb is recorded as more than 360 people (Shang Wang level).

Killings were so numerous and frequent, and human and animal animals did not belong to the penal system of the Shang Dynasty The reason is simple, the punishment was directed at people, and the Shang slave owners did not treat slaves and prisoners of war as human beings at all. In their eyes, it's just a special group of livestock. Hope.

In the 1910s, "Ling Chi" began to gain fame in Europe, because the photographs taken by French soldiers in the form of postcards began to become popular, but torture had already been abolished in April 1905. "Ling Chi", regarded in France as the ultimate representative of "Chinese torture", inspired countless writers and artists, and even continued until the publication of Georges Badaier's ** collection in 1960, which was later redrawn by Chen Chih-jen. These images symbolize China, its history, and civilization, and similar styles continue to influence Westerners today.

Since the beginning of the 20th century, "Ling Chi" has become the most typical punishment in China's penal system. However, the opposite is true: Ling Chi is very different from the ancient punishment, and it should be a modern punishment.

Although the term "lingchi" first appeared in the 10th century, it was not until the 13th or 14th century that it was officially codified in criminal law.

Ming Dynasty: Zhu Shi and Gua Man are difficult for other dynasties to match.

Business bar. In fact, there is no most cruel dynasty, only the most cruel emperor.

The punishments of Shang, Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, and Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty were all quite cruel.

I think it's the Warring States period.

Ancient Chinese torture varied from dynasty to dynasty, but its purpose was to execute or punish the prisoner, and its essence was cruel. It mainly includes Ling Chi, beheading, waist beheading, skinning, cannon branding, and palace punishment. As the name suggests, these punishments are cruel and cruel to the name.

However, the general trend of development is to develop in the direction of civilization and prudent punishment from primitive barbarism, backwardness, and brutality.

Social and economic development and the progress of human civilization, the continuous change of the guiding ideology of those in power have led to the development and change of punishment, in addition to the highly centralized rule of ancient society, those in power often act according to their own likes and dislikes, so that the punishment has formed the characteristics of instability and uncertainty.

I remember that there was a book called "Purlin Punishment", which was the work of Teacher Mo Yan, and the six major tortures were mentioned in the book, but the most cruel was the purlin punishment. The specifics are not intended to be described here, friends can get from the book.

Skinning, beheading, car cracking, five punishments, Ling Chi, hanging, cooking, palace punishment, slashing, needle insertion, burial alive, poisoning.

Ling Chi, cannon branding, box execution, barrel, wearing wooden shoes, and so on.

Of course, the criminal law of the Qin Dynasty was the most severe.

Because the Qin Dynasty pursued Legalist thought, "everything is decided by the law", "everything has a French style", and "torture and killing are the might".

The Qin Dynasty had a wide variety of punishments and cruel methods, including the death penalty alone

Beheading, beheading (hanging the head on a tree), Gang (cutting off a limb before killing), Abandoning the City (executing a condemned prisoner in a downtown area and violently corpses), killing alive, killing (i.e., burying or drowning alive), Pit (burying alive), and having five punishments (the most severe one, that is, various criminal laws are used together, including physical punishment, etc.).