Caishikou Execution Grounds (traditional Chinese: 菜市口法場; simplified Chinese: 菜市口法场; pinyin: Càishìkǒu Fǎchǎng), also known as Vegetable Market Execution Ground,[1] was an important execution ground in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty. It was located at the crossroads of Xuanwumen Outer Street and Luomashi Street.[2] The exact location is under debate today. However, contemporary sources and photographs put it across from the Heniantang Pharmacy (Chinese: 鶴年堂藥店).[3]
Executions were usually carried out at 11:30 AM.[4] On the day of the execution, the convict would be carted from the jail cell to the execution grounds. The cart stopped at a wine shop named Broken Bowl (Chinese: 破碗居) on the east side of Xuanwu Gate, where the convict would be offered a bowl of rice wine.[5] The bowl would be smashed after it was drunk. During the executions of infamous convicts, it was common for a large crowd to gather and watch. The torture death by a thousand cuts was also carried out at the execution ground.[6]
The Catholic bishop Alphonse Favier wrote about the execution ground in the 1890s:[7]
The convicts, on their knees, are executed one after the other, their bodies carried to the dump, their heads hung in little cages on a tripod frame made of poles. Passerby can view the bloodless heads, their huge, terrified eyes half eaten by magpies and crows that peck through the rungs; each queue trails down to the ground; dogs look on and stand on their hind legs trying to get to them
^H. Y. Lowe (1942). Stories from Chinese Drama. Peking Chronicle Press.
^Henriot, Christian; Yeh, Wen-hsin (2012). Visualising China, 1845-1965: Moving and Still Images in Historical Narratives. Brill Publishers. p. 66. ISBN978-9004233751.
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^Associate Professor of History Timothy Brook; Professor of History and Republic of China Chair Timothy Brook; Timothy Brook; Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue, Associate Professor of History Gregory Blue (15 March 2008). Death by a Thousand Cuts. Harvard University Press. pp. 285–. ISBN978-0-674-02773-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
November 11, 2023
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