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Waist cut in martial arts is step-up throwing technique. The opponent is take down by standing behind his front leg (for example in seven star stance), pulling at his rear arm to the side while pushing with the other hand at his waist (alternatively hip, shoulder etc.). May also include a palm slash to the waist (e.g. kidney).<br>Also known as cutting in two at the waist, was a form of execution used in ancient China. As its name implies, it involved the condemned being sliced in two at the waist by an executioner.<br>Waist chopping first appeared during the Zhou dynasty (c. 1046 BC – 256 BC). There were three forms of execution used in the Zhou dynasty: chēliè (車裂; quartering the prisoner alive), zhǎn (斬; waist chop), and shā (殺; beheading). Sometimes the chopping was not limited to one slice.<br>Gao Qi, a Ming dynasty poet, was sentenced by the Hongwu Emperor to be sliced into eight parts for his politically satirical writing.<br>An episode not attested in the official histories recounts that in 1734, Yu Hongtu (俞鴻圖), the Education Administrator of Henan, was sentenced to a waist chop. After being cut in two at the waist, he remained alive long enough to write the Chinese character cǎn (慘; "miserable, awful") seven times with his own blood before dying. After hearing this, the Yongzheng Emperor abolished this form of execution.<br>see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waist_chop simplified name: yao zhan / jiuzaam