Ling Chi: Death by a Thousand Cuts, in Pictures
- Author: Artefact
- Categories: H, International, News
- Date: Dec 3, 2009 22:28 JST
- Tags: Bizarre, China, Crime, Execution, Guro, History, Image Gallery
The ancient Chinese execution method known as “death by a thousand cuts,” or in Chinese as Ling Chi or Leng T’che, which as the name suggests involves slicing apart a live criminal, is documented in the grotesque yet fascinating photographic record reproduced below:
The actual practice, though undeniably brutal, differs somewhat from the mythologised version in which victims are slowly sliced into thousands of pieces over days in order to prolong their suffering to untold levels.
Historians think instead that the practice normally took the form of tying down the subject before a crowd, and then slicing off breasts, major muscles and eventually limbs and the head in a process unlikely to have lasted more than half an hour. Death must have occurred long before the procedure was complete.
“Merciful” variations might involve drugging the subject or dispatching them with a blow to the heart early on in the process.
These photographs date from 1904 (they were taken by French observers); the practice was finally abolished in 1905 after being a common punishment for a thousand years. Other grisly execution practices at the time included killing the entire family of the accused or leaving them in a cage to expire naturally.
China has come a long way in 100 years, though not clearly not nearly as far as some would hope…
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Please tell me this is a guro manga!!
gore xtreme!!!
I'm sure right now my face got turned like after watching two girls one cup...
*fap* *fap*
looks like anything on SC is fappable
thanks OP, i came buckets
As inhuman and awful as this torture is it is nothing compared to the agony of "Endless Eight".
Fucking sick and inhumane...fucking shit my lunch is all over my keyboard now thanks alot Artefact.
When thinking about Chinese accusations of Japanese Army`s cruelty against Chinese people in 1930s, as in Nanking & elsewhere which are correct indeed, and now seeing this, makes you think that some Chinese want to monopolize torture & cruelty for themselves.
Criminal executions and the killing of innocents are both totally different things dumbass.
I liek my pork chop raw...
Death by a "Thousand Cuts"? Fuck the dude was peeled four times and then beheaded!
Where the Fuck was the other 995 cuts?! And added to boot, the slice-ee looked dead after the fourth peel! If they're going to call it "death by a thousand cuts" I figured they use blunted bread cutters run across the body by many people a thousand times! Shear exhaustion by that would probably kill the dude and satisfy any bit of rage by the town I'd wager.
its china's quality, what did you expect ? an exact 1000 cuts ?
should of pulled raped them like they did in nanking, OHKO!
oh my god.
this world is so fucked up.
Seriously, God should cleanse the earth again with water!
she's too old
pffffffff holy shit
LULZ at all the butthurt Chinese showing up. Sancon bashes just about every country on the planet. Don't act like you're so special that you should be spared.
Whoa this some crazy ass shit, kinda made my head spin a bit with how unnatural it seems to carve a dude up bit by bit alive. Dude could be Hitler and I couldn't do it to him.
Guess I was born with antiKill floating subconsiously within me. OMG Sankaku is teaching me shit about myself, who needs a shrink?
wow thats pretty bad. When i first read it I thought it sad death by a thousand cats.
I wish I can have a death like this. Insted of dieing of in a hospital, nornal death are boring.
I recommend suicide bombing it will blow your mind away
SURE YOU CAN.
我愛中國!
我愛中國人!
^Anon fag thinks no one else can read this.
Well you love China and chinese people, who cares anyways. This happened a long time ago, though their government continues executing people, worse things happen in the world.
Did he died?
Well, aren't we glad that the Manchus are out of power, and the real "Chinese" are back in. But that doesn't say much for the malpractices and mental slavery is completely wiped away, yet.
Oh gosh...that's really terrible...
they should do this to phedofiles
Communism better than monarchy? Dictators mean something to you? About the practice shown in the pics only i can say that only blood thirsty humans can do something like that. You cannot call your self a decent person and do that to another, no matter the crime. For family, country and honor.
Well in theory (like most things) communism is quite sound. It's just that went it's put into real world use dictators result as a byproduct of human nature. That's why there are still so many scandals and conspiracies (albeit hidden ones) in supposedly democratic countries (I'll let you pick which ones).
Gee, I joined this site to read sex-related news, not gore and cruelty like that. Now I really need to find some big tits idol to look at.
uhh.. This is just too fucked up
Really.. There's no reason to post shit like this
一堆五毛黨 lots of 5 mao party
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now THAT is art.
I wonder whether any of the Rape of Nanking or Unit 731 has ever shown up on Sankaku Complex....
Well negative articles on Japan do get published here, but Sankaku-ers are conditioned by long exposure to hentai to think that loli rape and other sex crimes are natural part of everyday life and nothing immoral whatsoever.
Well you have to consider what the main theme of this site is and then look at who are the target audience. It's similar with politicians. They never put blame on bad parenting or at the very least make some light note of it then compare it to something that overshadows it because they don't want to lose votes. People here don't care about the wrongs of Japan because they already know or just don't want to (denial) because it puts there interest into Japan in bad light. But they do care about the bad things that happen all around else where, because well...people pretty much know nothing about it or in relation and thats' where all the views go to. It's just unfortunate that there are ignorant sods that do build up this negative only image just on these articles.
Ah, Unit 731. For those who don't know, this was a unit of the Imperial Japanese army devoted to research on chemical and biological warfare. They would perform disturbing experiments on "common criminals, captured bandits and anti-Japanese partisans, political prisoners, and also people rounded up by the secret police for alleged 'suspicious activities'". Most were Chinese, Korean, or Russian, but of course there were others.
Dismemberment and reattachment of limbs, forced impregnation and abortions, removal of organs in living specimens (including the rather uncomfortable practice of removing an individual's stomach and attaching their esophagus directly to their intestines), testing weapons on live targets, among other things.
Do note that I'm not bringing it up to inflate the "anti-Japanese" argument, but a few people here don't seem to be educated particularly well. Sad thing is several of the scientists involved were completely home free, and a few even ended up working for the American government. You could probably get more information yourselves through Google and Wikipedia.
Despite what the lot of you might want to believe, Imperial Japan was no better than the Nazis.
They are totally jerking off to his pain. Schadenfreude much?
dmn china u scary
OH MY GOD, OHMY GOD WHY AM I LOOKING AT THESE.
well I'm abit late to say this but, sure it's Chinese, there's alot of different and certainly worst torture methods back in the past. Especially those medieval ones.
Humans are amazing creatures aren't they
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Who's in for some Chinese cold cuts?! lol
WELL.
I didn't need to see that.
holy crap
Is this what they do to pedo in ancient China? I guess the party van isn't so bad...
Well, we have come a long way, now people are just openly stoned to death in the streets and killed with their whole families as they sleep in their beds, some are still hung and the guillotine seems to not be in use. Thats the world in a nut shell for ya, entertainment in death with death and in some cases, the crowd participating in the executions.
oh god!
What a painful death. >_>