What is sandalwood punishment?
Sandalwood punishment in Mo Yan's novels is not recorded in the history of China. This punishment appears in Mo Yan's novels. Perhaps Mo Yan also learned from the wooden stick punishment in medieval Europe and evolved from it.
"Sandalwood Punishment" describes19th century, 1900 year. In order to prevent the Germans from building a railway in Shandong Peninsula and destroying the geomantic omen in their hometown, Sun Bing was punished by the Germans with the most cruel punishment "Sandalwood Punishment" in the history of China.
According to the description in Mo Yan's novels, this punishment is to cut a sandalwood into the shape of a sword, which is longer and wider than the sword, to punish the prisoner. After it is done, put it in boiling sesame oil and cook it. When cooking, add dough and raw beef to make sandalwood taste like food and meat.
After boiling for five days, sandalwood will become a very hard and elastic material, but the surface will be very smooth, because sesame oil seeps into the stick, so this cruel torture device is made.
When casting a spell on a prisoner, first put the prisoner on the table, and then the torturer holds sandalwood in one hand and a big wooden hammer in the other, pushing sandalwood from the prisoner's anus, running through his body and coming out of his mouth, or entering from his mouth and coming out of his anus.
Extended data
Sandalwood Punishment is a novel with wonderful structure. It is based on the historical background of 1900 when the German army built the Ji Jiao Railway in Shandong, Yuan Shikai suppressed the Boxer Rebellion in Shandong, Eight-Nation Alliance captured Beijing, and Cixi fled hastily. It uses swaying strokes, great sadness and great joy, and looks forward to profound thoughts.
"The Living Dragon" vividly tells an epic movement, a shocking torture and a thrilling love that happened in "Gaomi Northeast Township". This paper focuses on the feud between the heroine Mei Niang and her father michel platini and her father-in-law.
The main characters in the novel are: Zhao, an old and crazy fool who kills people without blinking an eye, Qian, a high-ranking official who pleads for the people, a dissolute and filial daughter, a die-hard hero and a true man.
Their five main characters interweave with each other in the full text, which makes the full text full and vivid, makes the image of the folk characters in the northeast township of Gaomi jump to the page, and shows the readers the real scene of China being occupied by foreign powers in the early 20th century.
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