Editing Decapitation (section)

==== China ====
[[File:Caishikou Beheaded Corpses2.jpeg|thumb|Ranked beheaded bodies on the ground, in [[Caishikou Execution Grounds|Caishikou]], [[Beijing]], China, 1905]]
In traditional [[China]], decapitation was considered a more severe form of punishment than [[strangulation]], although strangulation caused more prolonged suffering. This was because in [[Confucius|Confucian]] tradition, a person's body was a gift from their parents, and so it was therefore disrespectful to their ancestors to return their bodies to the grave dismembered. The Chinese, however, had other punishments, such as dismembering the body into multiple pieces (similar to the English [[hanged, drawn and quartered|quartering]]). In addition, there was also a practice of [[Waist chop|cutting the body at the waist]], which was a common method of execution before being abolished in the early [[Qing dynasty]] due to the lingering death it caused. In some tales, people did not die immediately after decapitation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bbs.04gd.com/viewthread.php?tid=547&fpage=1 |title=原來斬頭係唔會即刻死既(仲識講野)中國有好多斬頭案例!! |access-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707054827/http://bbs.04gd.com/viewthread.php?tid=547&fpage=1 |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://xn--gmq282eogn.cn/GB/kejiao/42/154/20030410/968308.html |title="无头人"挑战传统医学 人类还有个"腹脑"? |access-date=21 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120803114144/http://xn--gmq282eogn.cn/GB/kejiao/42/154/20030410/968308.html |archive-date=3 August 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.66163.com/Fujian_w/news/fzwb/990124t/3-3.htm |title=福州晚報 |access-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019042249/http://www.66163.com/Fujian_w/news/fzwb/990124t/3-3.htm |archive-date=19 October 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cst21.com.cn/3/hrt.htm |title=换人头 |access-date=25 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090620030109/http://www.cst21.com.cn/3/hrt.htm |archive-date=20 June 2009 }}</ref>