In China, there was a law, "the extermination of nine generations" Bashny.Net

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During the reign of the great Chinese dynasties of the laws of the Celestial Empire different hardness and even cruelty, sometimes unjustified. For the commission of serious crime authorities could execute not only the attacker but also members of his family - the so-called "extermination of nine generations».

The essence of this procedure is as bad as its name: executed convicted of almost all relatives - parents, grandparents, children, grandchildren, brothers, sisters (including cousins), aunts and uncles.

I must say, some emperors mitigated punishment vetoing the murder of children under a certain age, or, for example, replacing the penalty for women slavery. At the same time, other rulers, in contrast, "tighten the screws", saying most "distinguished" to "death by a thousand cuts" - the offender and his household are gradually cut into small pieces and they bled, died in terrible agony.



"Extermination" at all times was considered one of the highest penalties applied and not too often. One of the most notorious incidents of this kind is considered to be the execution of Chinese scientist Fang Syaozhu when he openly declared his loyalty to the deposed emperor Yunwen and refused to write a coronation speech the new governor of Yong-Laye (born Zhu Di), he sentenced him to "exterminate the nine generations" Fan himself but insisted on the extermination of ten, and with his family executed power of his students - were killed in a total of 873 people, and the very Fan cut in half.

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