The method of castration surgery in the Qing Dynasty was as follows: First, a white cloth or bandage was tightly wrapped around the lower abdomen and upper thighs of the person undergoing the surgery. Then, a rope was used to continuously bind and squeeze the testicles, and a bamboo board was used to beat the leg roots and buttocks, causing prolonged numbness. The eunuch performing the procedure would take a ring knife (a steel ring the size of a ring with a sickle-like blade), place a boiled egg in the child's mouth (to prevent biting the tongue due to excruciating pain), carefully wash the area to be operated on with hot pepper water, and then use a slightly curved small knife, similar in shape to a sickle, to cut off both the scrotum and the penis together. A white wax needle was then inserted into the urethra to form a plug, and the wound was covered with paper soaked in cold water and carefully bandaged.
After completing the above procedures, the person who underwent the surgery was supported by two knife craftsmen to walk slowly in the room for two or three hours before being allowed to lie down. For three days after the surgery, the person was not allowed to drink water, it was said...