قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Waist chop

Waist chop or waist cutting, was an Imperial Chinese form of execution.
The victim was cut into two pieces at the waist with a big sharp knife or sword.

History.

Waist chopping was first used during the Zhou dynasty (c.
1046 BC – 256 BC).
It was one of three ways people were executed:

There is a story that the poet, Yu Hongtu was killed by waist chop in 1734.
Before he died, he wrote seven lines of the Chinese character "cân" (cruel,naughty) with his own blood.

Sometimes the chopping was more than one cut.
The first Ming dynasty emperor Zhu Yuanzhang had the poet Gao Qi cut into eight parts for his politically satirical writing.

In the modern Chinese language, "waist chop" has become a metaphor for the cancellation of an ongoing project, especially television programs.