Years, that is, people say "one thousand dollars". In the name of the death penalty, it refers to cutting off a person's flesh with a knife when executing a person. This is a punishment of dismemberment, that is, cutting off the limbs of the body. Photographs taken in the late Qing Dynasty show the real "eight knives" execution. Eight knives, the executioner used a basket of numbered sharp knives: the first knife, cutting the chest (all from the left and other parts below); The second knife, cut the biceps; The third knife, thigh; The fourth knife and the fifth knife cut the arm to the elbow; The sixth knife and the seventh knife cut the calf to the knee; Eighth knife, first knife. It was the practice in the late Qing Dynasty that the dismembered remains were put in a basket and the heads were displayed in public indefinitely.