Slow slicing
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 124 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5090-9211-4
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Slow slicing (Lingchi) (simplified Chinese: ??; traditional Chinese: ??; pinyin: lingchi, alternately transliterated Ling Chi or Leng T'che), also translated as the slow process, the lingering death, or death by a thousand cuts (simplified Chinese: ???; traditional Chinese: ???) or "????”, was a form of torture and execution used in China from roughly AD 900 until its abolition in 1905. In this form of execution, the condemned person was killed by using a knife to methodically remove portions of the body over an extended period of time. The term lingchi derives from a classical description of ascending a mountain slowly. Lingchi was reserved for crimes viewed as especially severe, such as treason and killing one's parents. The process involved tying the person to be executed to a wooden frame, usually in a public place. The flesh was then cut from the body in multiple slices in a process that was not specified in detail in Chinese law and...