Castration applies to both men and women, not to mention men.
It is certain to execute castration on women, at least before the Ming Dynasty.
However, the implementation methods are different and complicated.
"Palace", that is, "the husband cuts off his power and the woman closes in the palace", is a male genitalia (note: it is cut together with the scrotum and * * * to avoid growing again in the future, but * * * is a technical job. If you cut it too shallow, you will separate the urine if you cut it too deep, so the ancient eunuchs can only squat to urinate, fearing that the urine will spill on their bodies, which ruined men.
Palace punishment is also called silkworm house punishment, corruption punishment, yin punishment and hanging punishment. These different names all reflect the cruelty of this punishment.
The so-called silkworm house was explained by Yan Shigu in the Tang Dynasty: "Anyone who raises silkworms wants to grow early, so it is a silkworm house, and animals will set fire to it.
The new corruption punishment is also a stroke, and it must enter the secret room (probably the earliest concept of aseptic room), so it can be completed, because it is called silkworm room ear. "That is to say, after castration, most people are easily infected with a stroke because of the wound. If they want to survive, they must stay in a secret room like a silkworm room and squat for hundreds of days in an environment without wind and sunshine before the wound can heal.
Castration is also called corruption, because, for the victim, it is not only physical pain, but also spiritual humiliation. From then on, it was like a rotten tree, but it could not bear fruit with a stick.
Another way of saying it is that castrated people are like rotten wood that can't bloom.
Castration, also known as yin punishment, refers to the punishment of men or women in the vulva.
Well-known punishments can be found in Lu Punishment. According to Shuowen, "punishment" means beating with a stick. According to Ma Guohan's Tong Geng Tie, there was a method in ancient times to know how to beat a woman's lower body with a wooden stick and destroy her reproductive function.
Castration is a kind of corporal punishment, and its cruelty is second only to that of the great emperor. The reason for this is, of course, because people at that time thought that the value of genitals was second only to that of the head.
This understanding is correct even today.
Sima Qian, the father of China historiography, said in a letter to a friend after angrily denouncing the imprisonment of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty: "Therefore, misfortune is not beneficial, mourning is not sad, ugliness is before humiliation, and shame is greater than imprisonment.
There are countless people at large, and they are never far away. "It can be said that castration is the most humiliating punishment worse than death.