When going to court, visitors should pout their hips, one person holds their heads, two people hold their legs, two people hold their hands, one person hits, and the other person counts the number of times. Eunuchs who are beaten will not be beaten quietly. He will beg for mercy while being beaten. If he doesn't shout, he will be considered dissatisfied and will fight more. Then two eunuchs put him in front of his master and asked him to apologize to his master, and this series of punishments really ended.
But by the end of the Qing dynasty, this kind of rod punishment began to become more cruel and even killed the prisoners. At that time, someone invented a method called suffocation, that is, dipping water in thin paper, sealing the eunuch's nose, mouth and ears, and then executing the rod punishment. The prisoner died soon because his mouth and nose couldn't breathe. It is said that Cixi was cruel to eunuchs and often beat them. At that time, there was another kind of sitting together, that is, the eunuch made a mistake and would bring trouble to others. Dozens of people hit their hips and stomachs, but they are often relatively easy to confuse. In order to distinguish, some things will be laid on the eunuch's buttocks.
Some eunuchs are fragile in heart and choose to hang themselves because they can't accept the punishment of flogging, but this situation is more serious. His body will be abandoned in the wilderness, his family will be involved, and their family will be exiled to the frontier. If the eunuch in the palace can't stand all kinds of controls and wants to escape. This situation is also very serious, and they will be sent to the frontier or even imprisoned for life. So the eunuchs at that time, no matter how unbearable, could not commit suicide or escape, otherwise they would only be punished more severely.