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Waist Cutting As A Punishment by PENIEL2018(m): 10:09am On Sep 16, 2021 |
What is the most obscure historical fact you know? Waist chop or waist cutting (腰斬; 腰斩; yāo zhǎn) ![]() Gao Qi, a Ming dynasty (1368–1644) poet, was senteced by the Hongwu Emperor to be sliced into eight parts for his politically satirical writing. In the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), an episode not attested in the official histories recounts that, Yu Hongtu, the Education Administrator of Henan, was senteced to a waist chop. After being cut in two at the waist, he remained alive long enough to write the Chinese character cǎn (慘; "miserable, awful" ![]() After hearing this story, Emperor Yongzheng abolished this form of execution. ![]() ![]()
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