The mankind throughout the history of existence thought up a huge number of ways and means of taming of a body and spirit. The various devices capable to deliver an excruciating pain or to deprive of the person of mind, allowed to find out the most serious secrets.
The rack, partition, sazhaniye on a stake, a zataptyvaniye elephants, test by fire, air or rats - all these techniques terribly were improved and applied not only in tribes of natives, far from a civilization, but also took place in the societies which are laying claim humanistic and tolerant. The tortures used in China differed in special cruelty and refinement, they could be as rather harmless, connected with blows of a bamboo stick, and could differ in special cruelty and inhumanity.
Bamboo
Special attention the Chinese bamboo torture connected with the placement of the person on the pointed stalks of a bamboo and fixing on them deserves. The plant growing in the shortest periods to the incredible sizes literally broke off the person from within. Death from thousands of cuts connected with loss of blood and painful shock was also rather widespread in quality of the serious punishments interfaced to tortures and mutilations.
Till the 20th century the Chinese tortures were quite widespread phenomenon and sometimes affected not only criminals, but also quite innocent people, the being ordinary witnesses of incidents.
Water
One of the most known Chinese tortures and until now is test by water. The defendant was located to the cold room and was completely immobilized, in total darkness on the poor fellow's forehead cold water dripped for a long time, in several days the examinee died of cold or forever lost mind as a result of similar "brainwashing". The similar type of tortures was widespread also in the territory of Italy the 16th centuries when the defendant who is stripped naked had to lie for hours under a stream or to absorb cold water.
By the way, tortures are legislatively not forbidden still, and from time to time photos of the people mutilated in prisons get to the Internet.
Castration, sawing off or tightening of extremities, immobilization, tortures by rats or insects, rooms in blocks, suspension up the head, a sazhaniye on a stake, lynchings, the cuttings of parts of a body zakovyvany in shackles, clogging by sticks on heels - all these tests, despite inhuman cruelty and total absence of humanity and a presumption of innocence were rather widespread and by right can carry the name of "Chinese".