Overview
- Reports describe the punishment as binding prisoners in public and methodically slicing flesh to prolong pain and inflict humiliation.
- Coverage notes the sanction was reserved for the gravest offenses such as treason and was applied to both men and women.
- A cited photograph documents the 1904 execution of Wang Weiqin at Beijing’s Caishikou execution ground after he murdered two families.
- Period accounts include an 1879 Peking Gazette report in which a woman was executed by lingchi and her husband was punished with a cangue.
- Articles list named victims such as eunuch Cao Jixiang and the alleged case of General Yuan Chonghuan, and cite claims from some reports about post‑mortem sale of flesh, bone chopping, and cremation.