It s all beheaded, what is the difference between the executioners of ancient China and Europe?

At that time, Chinese executioners directly beheaded prisoners, while European executioners mainly executed criminals in the form of hanging, so the form of execution was also different.

The social status of the executioners in the West is still relatively high. At the same time, he also understands some medical skills, and some techniques are better than some full-time doctors about various traumas.

In ancient China, executioners were a highly specialized group, somewhat similar to a traditional craft, usually passed down from one teacher to another, or from father to son.

There should be no difference between the executioners in ancient China and those in Europe, at most in the process of execution.

The process of execution is different, ancient China believed in ghosts and gods, so they would sacrifice heaven and earth before execution, while the West directly dragged it up and cut it down.

There is no difference between China and foreign countries, they are all beheaded, but China's way is China's, and foreign people's ways are different.

Although the tools used by the exhibitors in the two countries are different, and the methods may not be very different, in fact, the essence is the same.

In ancient China, before beheading, it was necessary to sacrifice to the heavens, while in the West, it was enough to cut off the head directly, and there is still a big difference between the two countries.

There is no difference, except that the two countries have different ways of beheading, and the tools used are different.

It's not different, right, it's just that the knife is different? Or is it because of a different reason and origin?

In ancient times, the head chopping knife was a ghost head broadsword, and the handle was a ghost head carving.

Broadsword ghost head knife.

There is no fixed knife for this one.

In ancient times, when beheading on the execution ground, it should have been sharpened with a machete, but some executioners preferred to use a blunt knife, and as a result, it took more than a dozen knives to cut off the head of a death row prisoner. Some people think that this is an unprofessional performance of the executioner, but in fact, there is a lot of article in it, and there is a reason why the executioner sometimes likes to cut off his head with a blunt knife, generally speaking, there are no more than two reasons, the first is to ask the family of the death row prisoner for money, and the second is to get the instructions of the superiors, and must use a blunt knife to cut off the head.

The executioner industry in ancient times was generally passed down by family, and Lao Tzu passed on the craft to his son. As an industry that has been passed down for thousands of years, there are actually many ways to cut off people's heads, and there are many exquisitenesses. First of all, the executioner should practice strength from an early age, learn the bone structure of the human neck, and do the accuracy practice of cutting off the head every day.

The executioner's beheading knives were also extraordinary, because they killed too many people, these knives were enshrined in the temple, and when the head was chopped, a knife ceremony was held, and incense was burned, all of which cost money.

Asking for money from the family Before the death row inmate goes to the execution ground, the executioner will communicate with the family of the death row prisoner to see how much he can pay for the knife. If the family members are wealthy, they will give a lot of silver, and the executioner will ask for a sharpened sharp knife, and then use his skills to cut it down neatly, so that the death row prisoner can die without pain; If the family members are stingy and have no money, the executioner will ask for a blunt knife that has not been sharpened at all, and when he cuts someone, he does not know where to go, and he may have to cut seven or eight or ten or twenty knives to cut off the head of the death row prisoner, and the death row prisoner also suffered a lot of pain in the process and died.

The executioner was instructed by his superiors to cut off his head with a blunt knife, and in other cases was instructed by his superiors. For example, Tan Sitong, a righteous man who changed the law in the Qing Dynasty, was specially cared for by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and explained that the executioner must use a blunt knife to cut off his head when he was executed, but the executioner had to cut more than 20 times before he could barely complete the task, resulting in a miserable scene.

Because executioners don't sharpen knives, they just feel that they are working, if they are not really killing, if they sharpen the knives, they will become **.

Because some prisoners are extremely evil, they don't want the prisoners to die painfully, so they deliberately use blunt knives.

The executioner slashes people with a blunt knife. It is they who will ask for a knife when they kill someone, and if the family of the death row prisoner gives more money, they will ask for a sharp knife, and the head will fall to the ground with one knife, so that he will die a miserable death. If the family members did not have money, then the executioner would ask for a blunt knife that had not been sharpened, and when he cut it hard, he would cut it several times in a row, causing the death row prisoner to die in great pain.

Increase the suffering of criminals, like the six sons of Wuxu.

In ancient China and Europe, there was such a way of death, which was bloody and cruel, that is, to kill the head, to cut off the head of a person. But in two culturally different countries, the same profession, executioner. But there are two different meanings.

In ancient China, executioners were a somewhat traditional craft that was usually passed down from one teacher to another, or from father to son. It is usually the children of wealthy families, the occupations that people at the bottom of society originally intended to engage in. The executioner's wages are based on how many heads are cut off, and the more heads he cuts, the more money he will have, and he will be able to eat enough.

In ancient China, if it weren't for the fact that the family was very poor, they would not have engaged in such a profession, which would have damaged yin morality. If there is a home in the neighborhood that engages in such a profession, there is almost no one in the neighborhood to interact with it.

The executioner is even more desolate in his old age, no one wants to accompany him, and he usually dies alone and retires to the mountains and forests. In ancient China, it can be said that such a profession is a tragic portrayal of giving up life and trying to survive. However, in Europe, although executioner is also a profession, there is one person who shows a different picture of life.

Franz inherited his father's medical knowledge, he referred to the medical books published at the time, and relied on his anatomical knowledge accumulated in the work of punishing people and carrying out the death penalty to treat diseases and save people, and heal the people at the bottom.

In Rome, the executioner's decapitation was a death method that only the nobles could have. So, in Europe the executioner is a noble profession, and every executioner has a certain medical basis. But he is the only one who makes the beheading so delicate, and heals the sick and saves people.

In addition, the political systems of China and Europe are different, the way of ruling is also different, and the level of education is also different, and the same beheading has become a different profession, a different way of dying, and a different historical significance.

The biggest difference is the speed, the ancient Chinese executioner was extremely fast.

The difference between the executioners of ancient China and Europe is that the people who are beheaded are different, the ancient China is to cut off the people who are not forgiving, while the European executioners can only be the nobles.

In ancient China, it was generally a sign of respect for the deceased to keep the whole corpse, so the nobles mostly hanged themselves. Beheading is for civilians. Only the nobility in Europe was beheaded. So the identities of the people who cut the two are different.

In fact, there is no essential difference between Chinese and Western executioners, and the difference is often the difference in the torture tools and methods of beheading.

This is also only a legend, firstly because the executioner thought that if he sharpened his sword, then he would have committed a murder when he cut off his head, and secondly, because there was a dead soul on the knife, and no sharpener was willing to sharpen it for him. There is also a theory, which can be regarded as the third reason, that the prisoner's family did not give the executioner a benefit fee, and the executioner was naturally not willing to waste time sharpening the knife, and the executioner had to pay money to worship the knife, and if he did not receive the money, the executioner would not care whether the prisoner died happily or in pain.

1. Executioner is also a profession that also requires skill

In ancient times, people who committed capital crimes were generally beheaded, and at this time a special executioner was needed, and the executioner's skills were professional, and this industry was relatively special, and when the father died, it was generally his son who took it. Slowly evolved into a professional skill, which is not passed on, and the executioner does not play at home every day, they have to start practicing since childhood, such as seeing blood with knives, breaking tendons and bones without breaking skin, etc., the key is that they also know how to make the prisoner die happily, how to make the prisoner die painfully.

2. The reason why the executioner does not sharpen his knife

2.It's because there are many souls on the knife and they don't dare to sharpen the knife. In fact, not only the executioner is unwilling to sharpen the knife, but even the sharpener is unwilling to sharpen the knife for the executioner, no matter how much money is given, mainly because the executioner's knife is a great killing weapon, the knife is stained with human blood, and the knife is also attached to the soul of someone, once the knife is sharpened, it will be contaminated with these souls, bringing endless calamity to himself.

3. It was because the executioner did not receive a bribe, or there was an order from above to make the prisoner suffer more. There is a legend that after Tan Sitong was arrested, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered him to be beheaded, and Cixi also specially explained that the executioner must use a blunt knife, so that during the execution, the executioner cut off his head more than 30 times. The executioners were very familiar with the bones and veins on people's necks, and knew how to cut off the head to make the prisoner suffer.

Because of this, the executioner never sharpens his knife.

In his memoirs, an American missionary recounted what he had seen while serving as a missionary in China. It is mentioned that an executioner had been told to cut off the prisoner's head after fifteen consecutive slashes.

The reason makes people laugh and cry, because the sharpener dislikes bad luck and is unwilling to do it. And the executioner himself thought that sharpening the knife was detrimental to yin morality. In Canton in 1851, a British consulate worker named Midile saw an executioner cut off 33 heads in three minutes, and their owner was a "rebel party" who rebelled against the Qing court.

Because the knife was stained with the blood of many people, if he sharpened the knife, his hand would touch the blood of others, and he was afraid that a wronged soul would come to him, so he was unwilling to polish it.

One is because the executioner thinks that if he sharpens his sword, then he will kill when he cuts off his head, and because there is a dead soul on the knife, no sharpener is willing to sharpen it for him.

The executioner's use of a blunt knife is to make the prisoner feel great pain, and only when bribed by the prisoner's relatives will he use a sharp knife to carry out the execution, while another theory is that the executioner's knife gathers too much resentment, and no one is willing to touch his knife. In film and television dramas, we often see the execution of executioners, generally speaking, executioners cut off the heads of prisoners with a single knife. But in fact, the executioners of ancient times preferred to use blunt knives, why is that?

1.It hurts to cut people with a blunt knife. Criminals are often guilty of crimes that must be punished.

If you cut off your head quickly, you will feel less pain and be easier to relieve. If a blunt knife is used, it is a kind of torture for the prisoner. They need to endure great pain while lucid.

2.Executioners use blunt knives to their advantage. In addition, the executioner will use the blunt knife to his advantage.

Those sentenced to death do not survive, although their families cannot save them and do not want them to die too unpleasantly. Some family members often give money and gifts to the executioner, asking the executioner to carry out the execution faster and alleviate the pain of the prisoner. When the executioners saw this business opportunity, they often used a blunt knife every time, and unless the family gave him money, he would let the prisoner die a painful death.

3.The knife used for the execution was too obscure. In addition, there is also a theory that this kind of execution knife is too heavy to kill, and many people are reluctant to touch this knife.

The ancients were very taboo about death, and they generally regarded this kind of knife with murder as intelligence. If the executioner wanted to find someone to sharpen his knife, no one would want to do it. And the executioner himself was actually discriminated against by other people, and he could not even get married, and he had no offspring.

In general, executioners were reluctant to sharpen their knives, most likely because they used blunt knives to demand money from their families, or because they could not find anyone to sharpen their knives for them, or they themselves were reluctant to touch the knives outside of execution.

In ancient times, anyone who had been an executioner would rather use a blunt knife to cut a person, even if he cut a dozen knives without cutting off his head, and the prisoner was in great pain, and he himself would not sharpen his knife even after exerting great effort. There are three main reasons why the executioner does not sharpen his knife:

One is because the executioner believes in a creed: it is the knife that kills, not him. In the executioner's view, killing people is a sinful thing, but firstly, it is required by the government, and secondly, it is a knife that kills people, so there is no sin in his own hands.

Once the executioner sharpens the knife, it means that the executioner is **, which will increase his sins, so once the executioner performs the task of cutting off the head, he will find a blunt knife from the corner and go directly to the execution ground to cut off the head.

The second is because there are many unjust souls on the knife, and they dare not sharpen the knife. In fact, not only the executioner is unwilling to sharpen the knife, but even the sharpener is unwilling to sharpen the knife for the executioner, no matter how much money is given, mainly because the executioner's knife is a great killing weapon, the knife is stained with human blood, and the knife is also attached to the soul of someone, once the knife is sharpened, it will be contaminated with these souls, bringing endless calamity to himself.

The third is because the executioner wants to make the prisoner suffer more. After Tan Sitong, one of the six gentlemen of Wuxu, was arrested, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered him to be beheaded, and Cixi also specially explained that the executioner must use a blunt knife, and in this way, during the execution, the executioner cut off his head more than 30 times. The executioners were very familiar with the bones and veins on people's necks, and knew how to cut off the head to make the prisoner suffer.

Because of this, the executioner never sharpens his knife.