彘 (zhì), pig, that is, pig. Human pigging refers to a kind of torture that turns people into pigs. That means cutting off the limbs, gouging out the eyes, injecting copper into the ears to make them deaf (deafening), pouring poison into the throat and cutting off the tongue, destroying the vocal cords so that they can't speak, and then throwing them into the toilet. Some even You need to cut off your nose, shave your hair, and shave all your eyebrows (not just eyebrows and hair, but also eyelashes), and then apply a medicine to destroy the hair follicles so that they will no longer grow after they fall off, and hair will never grow again. , and then pull them out one by one. If some of them feel tired, they pull them out all together. If the skin falls off or dies during the execution, the executioner will be scorned and even lose his job. Some died during the execution, and those who survived were placed in the toilet and made into human pigs. The most famous one is that the Empress Dowager Lu of the Han Dynasty made Mrs. Qi into a human pig, and arranged for someone to "take care of" her. Then she was thrown into the toilet and left to die in pain, her ears were cut off, and her face was even scratched. This was one of the very cruel tortures invented by Empress Lu to deal with Mrs. Qi.