In the list of the gods, it is said that Yinjiao plow and hoe of the doom, this plow and hoe is how a criminal law

Yin Jiao's plowing and hoeing in the List of Gods is derived from the ancient torture of "plowing and hoeing", which refers to burying a person in the ground and exposing his head, and then driving oxen and plowing over him with the pointed plows like plowing a field. In the list of gods, Yin Jiao was subjected to the punishment of "plowing the head", which was based on the fact that he became a taiyou god after his death.

Tai Sui is a Chinese god of evil that lives underground and appears every year after the first hibernation. After the hibernation, farmers start to plow in the spring, and when the plowshare goes into the ground, it plows out the taiyou. This is the origin of the proverb, "The earth is moved on the head of the taiyou". Later on, in the list of the gods, the plowing and hoeing of Yin Jiao was formulated.

There is no way to prove the origin of the plough's head, but there is a poem in the original text of the Enchantment of the Gods: "Colorful clouds of heaven and earth were lost, and the golden light of ten thousand paths spat out rainbows. Yinjiao empty use of the seal of heaven, a stone's throw plow hoe on top of the squeeze. In the poem, it is written that the plough and hoe are squeezed to the top of Yinjiao, that is, the meaning of going to the head, therefore, the plough and hoe of the doom, called the plough head of the doom is also no problem.

Expanded

Similar ancient tortures are:

1, the death penalty of lynching

The death penalty of lynching has been continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty. After the Hundred Days Reform, the Qing court by the internal and external impact of various contradictions, had to follow the trend of the traditional maladministration to make some reforms. Guangxu thirty-one years (1905) revision of the law minister Shen Jiaben asked for the deletion of lynching and other severe punishment, the Qing court, ordered the lynching and lords, kill the body and other laws "forever deleted, all changed to beheading". From then on, Lingchi inhuman torture from the code disappeared, was replaced by beheading.

2, car crack

The so-called car crack, is the human head and limbs were tied to five cars, set of horses, respectively, to different directions to pull, so that the human body hard torn into five pieces, so called car crack. Sometimes, this punishment was carried out without the use of carts, but directly with five oxen or horses to pull, so the cart split is commonly known as five oxen or five horse split body.

3, beheading

Beheading is one of the means of execution in ancient times. In the pre-Qin period, the death penalty had the names of car-cracking, beheading and killing, but the beheading at that time was not decapitation, but decapitation of the waist. During the execution, the prisoner's body was lying on the "mulberry", and the executioner used a huge axe to cut off his waist. Before the Qin Dynasty, the practice of cutting off the head and putting it to death was also called "killing". After the Qin Dynasty, the term "beheading" was gradually extended to the broader sense of killing, and the punishment of killing the head was called beheading.

4, buried alive

Buried alive is a common means of war . Because it saves labor and speed. Buried alive during the war, are called prisoners of war to dig their own pits, sometimes will first kill the captives and then push them down, but not enough time, they are directly pushed into the future cover the soil. Burial alive is an ancient form of torture in China. I've never heard of any famous people being subjected to this kind of torture, though.

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