Lu Xun: Advantages and Disadvantages of Electricity
During the Japanese shogunate, Christians were massacred, and the punishment was very fierce, but it was not allowed to be published. In recent years, many documents were published at that time. I have read "The Martyrdom of Chelizhidan" [2], which records the torture of Christians, or taking them to the hot springs and watering them with hot soup; Or make a fire around and bake it slowly. This was originally a "stake", but the person in charge removed the fire and changed the death penalty into a crime of abuse.
China is even more cruel. According to the records of the Tang Dynasty, there was a county magistrate in the Ministry who tortured a prisoner and roasted him with torches. When he is thirsty, give him soy sauce and vinegar. [3] This is a further road than Japan. Now Guanting tortures the suspect, which seems to be a method left over from the Tang Dynasty to fill the nostrils with Chili sauce, or a hero of ancient and modern times, and all roads lead to the same goal. I once saw a letter from a young man who was imprisoned in a reflection house. The letter said that he had been punished like this before, and the spicy juice had flowed into his lungs and heart, which had become an incurable disease. Even if he was released, he would inevitably die. This man is a military school student and doesn't know the internal organs structure. In fact, he can turn his nose upside down and flow from the trachea into the lungs, causing fatal diseases, but he can't enter the heart. At about that time, because I was very painful and confused, I suspected that I had reached my heart.
But now the so-called torture devices made by civilized people are cruel and surpass this method. There is electrocution in Shanghai. As soon as I got up, I felt a splitting pain all over, then I fainted, and I woke up and was tortured again. I heard that there are people who have suffered seven or eight times in a row, but they narrowly escaped death. After that, their teeth shook and their nerves became dull and unable to recover. The year before last, Edison was commemorated [4]. Many people praised the benefits of telegraph and telephone. I didn't expect that it was also electricity, but some people got such great harm. The rich use electricity to cure diseases and beauty, while the oppressed suffer and die.
Foreign countries use gunpowder as bullets to defend the enemy, but China uses it as firecrackers to worship the gods; Foreign countries use a compass to sail, but China uses it to see Feng Shui; Foreign countries use opium to cure diseases, while China uses opium as food. The same thing, but that's the difference between Chinese and foreign usage. The lid is not just electric.
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[1] This article was first published in1February, 933 16, Free Talk on Declaration, signed by He Jiagan.
[2] The Martyrdom of Cheri Zhidan was originally named Cheri Zhidan E Martyr, written by Matsuzaka, Japan. Paralysis? * Out
Version. 1925 when it was revised and reprinted, it was renamed Che Zhidan's Martyrdom. The book describes the spread of Catholicism in Japan since the16th century, and the cruel persecution and slaughter of Catholics by the feudal ruling class during the Edo shogunate in Japan. "Dan of Cut" (also called "Dan of Cut") is a Japanese translation of Christianity (and Christians). [3] There is a similar record in the lost article of Taiping Guangji (Volume 268) quoted from the Classic of Imperial Doctors: In the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian was a cruel official who came to the monarch to extort a confession. "Every prisoner is insignificant. Fill his nose with vinegar first, forbid him to enter the dungeon and surround him with torches."
[4] T.A.Edison (1847- 193 1) was an American inventor. Intensive study of electricity, there are many inventions, such as electric light, telegraph, telephone, film machine, phonograph and so on.
193 1 year1October 18 After his death, the whole world mourned him.
The original text is as follows:
During the Japanese shogunate, Christians were massacred, and the punishment was very fierce, but it was not allowed to be published. In recent years, many documents were published at that time. I have read "The Martyrdom of Chelizhidan" [2], which records the torture of Christians, or taking them to the hot springs and watering them with hot soup; Or make a fire around and bake it slowly. This was originally a "stake", but the person in charge removed the fire and changed the death penalty into a crime of abuse.
China is even more cruel. According to the records of the Tang Dynasty, there was a county magistrate in the Ministry who tortured a prisoner and roasted him with torches. When he is thirsty, give him soy sauce and vinegar. [3] This is a further road than Japan. Now Guanting tortures the suspect, which seems to be a method left over from the Tang Dynasty to fill the nostrils with Chili sauce, or a hero of ancient and modern times, and all roads lead to the same goal. I once saw a letter from a young man who was imprisoned in a reflection house. The letter said that he had been punished like this before, and the spicy juice had flowed into his lungs and heart, which had become an incurable disease. Even if he was released, he would inevitably die. This man is a military school student and doesn't know the internal organs structure. In fact, he can turn his nose upside down and flow from the trachea into the lungs, causing fatal diseases, but he can't enter the heart. At about that time, because I was very painful and confused, I suspected that I had reached my heart.
But now the so-called torture devices made by civilized people are cruel and surpass this method. There is electrocution in Shanghai. As soon as I got up, I felt a splitting pain all over, then I fainted, and I woke up and was tortured again. I heard that there are people who have suffered seven or eight times in a row, but they narrowly escaped death. After that, their teeth shook and their nerves became dull and unable to recover. The year before last, Edison was commemorated [4]. Many people praised the benefits of telegraph and telephone. I didn't expect that it was also electricity, but some people got such great harm. The rich use electricity to cure diseases and beauty, while the oppressed suffer and die.
Foreign countries use gunpowder as bullets to defend the enemy, but China uses it as firecrackers to worship the gods; Foreign countries use a compass to sail, but China uses it to see Feng Shui; Foreign countries use opium to cure diseases, while China uses opium as food. The same thing, but that's the difference between Chinese and foreign usage. The lid is not just electric.
1 month 3 1 day.