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How cruel was the Eight Knife Punishment in Qing Dynasty? What crime did you commit to be punished?
Eight knives punishment is an extremely bloody and cruel punishment in China feudal society. It is said that whoever commits the most rebellious and immoral crime will be punished with eight knives. Let me introduce you.

Eight knives, the executioner used a basket of numbered sharp knives: the first knife, the chest (all from the left and other parts below); The second knife, biceps; The third knife, thigh; The fourth knife and the fifth knife cut the arm to the elbow; The sixth knife and the seventh knife cut the calf to the knee; Eighth knife, first knife. After dismembering the body, the remains of the body were put into a basket, and the head was publicly displayed at an indefinite time, which was the practice in the late Qing Dynasty.

From the codification of the Yuan Dynasty to the abolition of the Qing Dynasty in 1905, it was mainly used to punish three kinds of crimes:

Crimes against the monarch: riots, treason, and seeking the throne.

Ethical crimes: children murder their parents, brothers murder their brothers, wives murder their husbands, and slaves murder their masters.

Cruel and inhuman crime: cutting off the limbs of others alive (witchcraft); Killing more than three people in the same family; Organize gangs to create terror.

After the Reform Movement of 1898, the Qing court was impacted by various internal and external contradictions and had to follow the trend and carry out some reforms on traditional disadvantages. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), Shen Jiaben, Minister of Justice, was asked to delete severe punishments such as the year of the year of the year, and the Qing court allowed it to be played, and ordered the laws such as the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year of the year, beheading and slaughtering corpses to be deleted forever. From then on, the inhuman torture of Ling Chi disappeared from the code and was replaced by beheading.