Boxer rebellion executions Severed heads of criminals are left on stakes in a town centre in Tientsin, China, in 1901. Caishikou Execution Grounds

Boxer rebellion executions Severed heads of criminals are left on stakes in a town centre in Tientsin, China, in 1901. Caishikou Execution Grounds


Caishikou Execution Grounds  also known as Vegetable Market Execution Ground  was an important execution ground in Beijing during the Qing Dynasty. It was located at the crossroads of Xuanwumen Outer Street and Luomashi Street.  The exact location is under debate today. However, contemporary sources and photographs put it across from the

Execution of Boxers at the execution ground.

Executions were usually carried out at 11:30 AM. 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 on the east side of Xuanwu Gate, where the convict would be offered a bowl of rice wine. 


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.



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



— Alphonse Favier, Péking: histoire et description

Notable individuals executed at Caishikouedit

Most of these executions were carried out by beheading with only specific crimes being punished by death by a thousand cuts.

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