What are the three kinds of torture invented by Wu Zetian: phoenix drying its wings, immortal offering fruit, and dried duck drowning?

Phoenix drying its wings: the posture is like Jesus on the cross, with its legs tied and fixed on a rotatable disk and its arms fixed? Cross? On the wooden poles on both sides. When the executioner turns the disc on the prisoner's foot, the prisoner's upper and lower bodies will be twisted and staggered, and the severity of sentencing is the size of the disc's twisted angle.

Immortal offering fruit: The prisoner kneels on the gravel with a wooden basin on his head. The executioner kept adding weight to the wooden basin, usually adding stones. The heavier the weight, the heavier the punishment. The prisoner knelt too heavily. If it is serious, kneeling will crush the kneecap.

Drowning of landlubber: Simply put, the duck paddles on the land, the executioner cuts off the prisoner's ankle, then ties the whole body with a rope and puts it on the ground, and then constantly sprinkles salt on the wound, so the prisoner will struggle to paddle like a duck. Funny posture, good execution effect and strong appreciation are the best of the three wonders of criminal law.

Wu Zetian designed so many horrible and punitive criminal laws in the early days of her succession, not to vent her tyrannical factors, but to consolidate and establish her prestige.

Wu Zetian is the first female emperor since ancient times, and she knows it well. Therefore, some measures must be taken, which can not only make the villain dare not hurt himself or despise himself, but also prevent other innocent civilians from being hurt. So we have to divert the prisoner's attention and make him suffer? Sin? Yes

In the later period of Wu Zetian's rule, these strange criminal laws have been abolished. After all, it is enough to realize their functions. There's no need to be so inhuman. The revision of the criminal law is partly due to the gradual improvement of the laws of the Tang Dynasty.

Today, many people are still debating whether to treat prisoners with this cruel criminal law. Personally, I think that the crime of a prisoner has been quantified when sentencing, and he must bear it, but the way to avoid cruel criminal law is to give him the last bit as human dignity.