Where did the heads that were decapitated in ancient times go?

We often see in TV dramas that prisoners who have committed capital crimes are beheaded for public display. So, the heads after the decapitation in ancient times, all went to **? Putting this question aside, let's first talk about the heads of these three famous people in history after they were beheaded?

In the early Warring States period, there was still a Zhi clan before the Three Kingdoms were divided, and they competed against Han, Zhao, and Wei. Later, the three kingdoms of Han, Zhao, and Wei joined forces to destroy the Zhi clan. And the leader of the Zhi clan, the powerful "Zhi Boyao", was cut off and handed over to Zhao Xiangzi.

At that time, in order to deter the Quartet, and out of hatred for the enemy, Zhao Xiangzi made Zhi Boyao's head into a wine glass.

The most touching thing is that Zhao Xiangzi used Zhi Boyao's head wine glass to carefully "paint" it before drinking. You must know that there was no very strong wine in ancient times, and the sterilization effect was poor, after Zhao Xiangzi's "paint", it not only looked beautiful and civilized, but also much cleaner. As a person from the Central Plains, why did Zhao Xiangzi use nomadic methods to treat Zhi Boyao?

This is because the territory of Zhao is adjacent to the northern nomads, so its customs and habits will be somewhat affected.

After Zhi Boyao, in the Yuan Dynasty, Song Lizong's head was also made into a wine cup, and the decoration materials were extremely exquisite, and the cruelty of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty was better than that of Zhao Xiangzi!

Xiang Yu, a historical figure we are familiar with, was surrounded by Liu Bang, embattled, and killed himself. Compared to the first two, there is dignity in death. But after Xiang Yu's death, the fate of his body can be said to be very tragic.

Historical Records records: After Xiang Yu committed suicide, Wang Fei took the head, and the remaining corpses were all divided by the Han army. Why did you divide Xiang Yu's body?

It's all to get Liu Bang's reward. Think about it, the martial arts of the overlord of Western Chu are world-famous, and he has the courage of ten thousand people, but in the end, he fell into a whole corpse, which makes people sigh.

Generally speaking, after the ancient civilians were beheaded, even if the castle tower was hung for public display, the time was very short. Unless the worst of the sins are the worst, the time will be longer. Ancient executioners would deliberately put the heads of decapitated people in wooden boxes.

Let his family take the money back. So as to get a lot of income. Moreover, the family of the deceased had to spend some money on the officials to finally bring the head of the deceased home, and then sew it on the body and bury it together.

The worst ones were unclaimed, and they were thrown into the barren mountains and mountains to be devoured by wild beasts.

Generally, the head will be hung at the gate of the city to warn others not to do things that violate the law and discipline. Everything else will be buried.

Of course, it was hung on the wall, used to warn the people not to break the law easily, otherwise this is the end, anyway, I see that it is like this in TV series.

After ordinary people are beheaded, the executioner puts the head into a wooden box, and then the family members pay to bring the head back, and can get a lot of income from it.

Because beheading is a more humane way to behead in the death penalty, the deceased does not suffer much pain, and it is relatively easy to carry out without too much trouble.

There were many types of death penalty in ancient China, and the death penalty not only deprived the offender of his life, but also included the meaning of humiliation and revenge. Some are a very cruel form of torture. The types are:

Ling Chi, beheading, hanging, giving death, abandoning the market, car splitting, preservation, killing, cannon grid, 磔 (sound folding), cooking, burning, beheading, etc. Some are statutory punishments, such as beheading, abandonment, lingchi, hanging, and others are temporary or used torture.

Ling Chi. This punishment began in the five generations of troubled times. Song Renzong began to use it, mainly to execute those who were serious criminals, as a sign of retribution and punishment.

Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming, and Qing all had such statutory punishments. The execution method is very cruel, first cutting the flesh from the non-vital parts, until the prisoner slowly dies, which is called a thousand knives by the people.

Beheading. It is also known as beheading, but the execution method was different before and after the Northern and Southern Dynasties. Before the north and south dynasties, it was often cut in half, and then it was generally beheaded, and in serious cases, it was also cut off at the waist.

Wring. In ancient times, people were strangled or hanged with silk, ropes, etc., which became a kind of death penalty after the emergence of Zhou and Qin. Because hanging can preserve the corpse, after the Sui and Tang dynasties, it is a kind of death penalty second to beheading in the statutory punishment.

Death. This is the execution method of nobles and **, in the Tang Dynasty stereotyped, generally more than five grades ** committed capital crimes, in this way of execution, the specific methods are self-killing, hanging and poisoning.

Abandonment of the market. In the Qin and Han dynasties, it was killed with a blade, and after the Wei and Jin dynasties, it was executed by hanging, but the location was in the downtown with many people, and the corpse was violent for three days, in order to indicate that it was abandoned by everyone, which was a kind of death penalty with shameful characteristics.

Car cracks. The car is split, that is, the five horses are divided.

Dried meat. Preserved meat is the drying of a corpse after killing a person.

Kill. Killing is the first demonstration of public humiliation and then execution (cf. "Killing and Killing").

Gun grid. The cannon grid is a cannon brand, and the lower side is lit to heat the bronze utensils, so that people walk barefoot on the top, so that people fall into the fire and burn to death.

Bang. It is a split limb that makes it dry, and some explain that it is a car split. Cooking is commonly known as boiling. Burning is to burn alive, and sometimes it is called lighting a sky lantern.

Owl head. The head of the owl is to behead people, and then hang the head on a wooden pole to show the public, play a role in intimidation, the Sui, Tang and Song dynasties have abolished, but the Ming and Qing dynasties are still used for robbers.

Because the decapitation is the most deterrent. Moreover, it is not always possible to kill people directly by other methods. For example, some people are stabbed with a knife and die, and some people are still alive after being stabbed more than a dozen times.

Because cutting off the head is the best way to confirm the death of the other party, such as stabbing the chest, cutting the neck in case it doesn't hit the vital point, or the wound is too shallow, and it is difficult to judge if the other party faints and fakes his death, so decapitation is the best way.

Because this is the custom of ancient times, such a murder is death, if it is a bayonet slag, if it is not stabbed, it will be troublesome.

Because because the criminal law stipulates that it is so stipulated because of the law, it may not be possible to kill the head.

That can shock other thieves.

Animals know how to bite their necks, let alone people.

On TV we all see a lot of decapitation episodes,There are many ways to deal with the head after beheading, some are to hang the head on the city wall to show the public, some are thrown to mass graves, and the head will be sealed in the Ming DynastyThen keep it for thirty years.

In ancient times, there were roughly three kinds of treatment of the head. If it is the most vicious criminal, such as the person who attempts to usurp the throne and assassinate the emperor, after the beheading, the head will be hung on the city wall to achieve the purpose of warning everyone. If it is an ordinary prisoner with a family, the family will be notified to claim it and take it back for burial, and if it has no family, it will be thrown directly into a mass grave.

There is also a kind of prisoner who is directly disposed of by the emperor, and after beheading, the head must be brought to the emperor, and the emperor will decide.

It is worth mentioning that in the Ming Dynasty, the head after beheading would be sealed, and the head and the prisoner's family information, and the criminal process would be kept together for thirty years. During this period, if the family has any objection to the hearing of the case, they can apply for a new trial. At this time, the government will take the case back and make a decision.

If, in the meantime, no one has any objections, thirty years later, the head is thrown into the sea.

Beheading, a method of disposal, was a simple punishment in the eyes of many people in ancient times. But this kind of punishment requires a very high level of execution from the executioner, and the intensity must be grasped well. But in fact, in the records of history, there are also many mistakes in beheading.

It is not uncommon for a single knife to not cut off a person's head.

The penalty of beheading is now largely abolished. Because this method of disposal is very bloody and has a bad impact on the outside world.

Some dynasties threw their bodies directly into the wilderness, some were to be beheaded above the city gates, and some horrific ones were to be kept in boxes for 30 years.

For such condemned prisoners, they are generally hastily buried, or even hung above the city gate to warn future generations.

There are many ways to dispose of the heads of condemned prisoners, some of them are hung on the city tower for public display, and some are thrown directly into mass graves.

The head may be hung on the city gate for public display, then buried in the middle of nowhere, or simply thrown away.

The ancients died as if they were alive, and the body must be intact when they were buried, but it is difficult to say for those condemned prisoners who were beheaded. During the Ming Dynasty, the average condemned prisoner would stay in a large prison for three years, after which the emperor would order his beheading.

Some can be taken away by family members. However, some of the most heinous crimes or those who have no family members are basically discarded at will.

The head was first hung above the city gate to warn future generations, and then the head was sent directly into the wilderness.

Hang above the city gate for a few days, and then ask people to go out into the wilderness to feed the wild animals and so on.

Ordinary people can let their family members take it away, but if it is some people who have committed great crimes, they are basically thrown away.

I picked it up and put it together, and then found a place to cremate it, the ancient people were more superstitious, believing that the burned people would not come back to take revenge.

Of course, the human head was picked up and buried with the corpse, and there was no cremation at that time, so it was generally just a random place to bury it, because the people who were killed were extremely vicious.

Bodies and heads are usually buried somewhere or parked in a place dedicated to the body.

was thrown into a mass grave, the ancients actually had to die a decent death, for example, someone had to collect the body if they were beheaded.

Beheading was one of the means of execution in ancient times, and it was to kill the head. The so-called decapitation or abandonment of the market is actually a beheading, but the head of the owl refers to the unified disposal of the head after the decapitation.

I wrap my head with lime powder and put it away. The human head that has been treated in this way will be deformed to a certain extent, but basically you can still see who it is.

Just find a place to bury it, because the people who are killed are all extremely vicious, and there will be no good end.

This should be unknown to the common people, after all, in the previous era, the military and the people were not a family.

Buried in the ground along with the body, the so-called "leave a whole corpse".

This is a problem....and he was hung on the head of the city....There are those who have been picked up and sewn up by their families....There are those who wrap the bellies of wild dogs....

Look at it around you, or put it on someone else's body.

Beautiful women's heads are generally sold to others to play with, or stolen by others.

In fact, it was just a knife on the neck pushing and pulling back and forth, and the executioner was desperate to find a bone seam. It's not the movie with a knife held high.

In ancient times, there were generally three ways of decapitation:

1 He pressed his head on a wooden mound, and the executioner cut it with a large knife or an axe, as if he were slaughtering a chicken.

2 An assistant pulls the prisoner's hair, which in the Qing Dynasty was a braid, so that the joints of the neck are pulled apart, and the executioner swings a knife and cuts it off from the crack in the vertebrae.

3 is a method that only a few skilled executioners dare to use: let the prisoner who is tied up bow his head and kneel, and the executioner swings his knife and falls, and the knife falls and his head breaks.

Our consciousness is based on chemicals called neurotransmitters, which form electrical signals that allow neurons to send messages to each other. Through telecommunication genus numbers, we can detect whether the brain is producing conscious activity.

Based on this, a study was conducted by the University of Njégen in the Netherlands. To determine whether the usual method of death of laboratory mice – beheading – is humane. The researchers attached an electroencephalogram (EEG) device to the brains of mice, cut off their heads, and recorded their electrical activity.

Dutch researchers found that after the separation of the head and body, the brains of mice continue to produce electrical activity in the 12-100 Hz band for about 4 seconds. This band of electrical signals is associated with consciousness and cognition and is defined as:"Mental processes including thinking"。

This finding shows that the brain can continue to think and feel the feeling of being beheaded a few seconds after the head is chopped off, at least in mice. Although the findings in mice can usually be recursively applied to humans, it is impossible to do experiments such as human beheading, so it is impossible to know whether the human head is conscious after being cut off.

However, an almanac on the invention of the guillotine mentions some records of people being beheaded. These contents suggest that it is likely that a person does retain consciousness after being beheaded.

There is a very famous story that when Lavoisier was sentenced to be decapitated during the French Revolution, in the spirit of science, he made an appointment with a physician to verify whether the head was still conscious after it landed, marked by the blink of an eye. As a result, it is said that after the head was cut off, he blinked seven times.

But there are many similar stories, and the number of blinks is not the same. Maugham's notes also mention a similar experiment performed by a doctor and a death row inmate, with the number of blinks appearing to be in double digits.

The brain will lose its dominance consciousness after 9 seconds of hypoxia, and there is a move called "guillotine" in free fighting, as long as the opponent's arteries and blood vessels are pressed for 9 seconds, the opponent will "fall asleep", which is actually the brain loses consciousness.