'Unfaithful husband and his mistress' are tied to a tree naked and publicly shamed 'after his scorned wife caught them cheating'
- Dozens gathered to see the unclothed pair as they were punished in China
- The woman is the man's mistress and they were caught by his wife, it is alleged
- Police claim the incident was caused by 'emotional conflict' amid investigation
A married man and his alleged mistress were last week bound to a tree naked and publicly shamed in China.
The couple were punished in the extreme manner after the man's wife caught them cheating, according to Chinese media citing accounts from the locals.
Police claimed the incident was caused by 'emotional conflict' and have launched an investigation.
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The incident took place in the county of Huishui in southern China's Guizhou Province last Wednesday, reported Chinese news outlet btime.com.
Footage filmed by an onlooker shows the pair who were not wearing any clothes tied to a tree side by side by ropes.
Dozens of passersby are seen gathering around the couple and police officers on site to control the crowd.
The video became viral after being uploaded onto the Chinese social media platform WeChat last Friday.
Footage filmed by an onlooker shows the pair who were not wearing any clothes tied to a tree side by side by ropes. Dozens of people have gathered and police are on site to keep order
Police said they had to send officers to the scene at around 5pm that day to rescue the woman bound to the tree.
Officers untied her, covered her with clothes before taking all relevant persons to the police station, police claimed.
A statement from the Huishui County Public Security Bureau said that the event was caused by the 'excessive reaction' from the man's wife after the couple had 'emotional conflict'.
The police did not explain the relation between the man and the woman who had been punished with him.
Further investigation is in under way.
Three quarters of Chinese couples end their marriage because of cheating
Ex-marital affairs is the number one cause of divorces in China, according to a report
In ancient China, it was common for a man to keep more than one wives as it was a sign of a prosperous big family.
In 1949 when the Communist Party took over the country, such traditional could still be observed in some families of China.
During the hard-core Communist ruling in the following 40 years or so, polygamy was strictly forbidden by law.
However, as the society got wealthier and more open-minded in recently years, ex-marital affairs have emerged as a social issue.
In fact, mistresses, also known as 'the little third' or 'the second housewife', have become an unavoidable topic in today's Chinese society.
According to a report released by All-China Women's Federation in 2014, ex-marital affairs is the number one cause of divorces in China.
Nearly 75 per cent of couples ended their marriage because of unfaithful partners.
The same report also highlighted that only 30 per cent of the affair victims went through a divorce - the rest 70 per cent chose to put up with the situation.
Nowadays, the country even has professional 'mistress hunters' who help thousands of wives catch 'shameless home wreckers'.
One of them, Zhang Yufen from Xi'an, helps her clients collect evidence of their husbands' suspected adultery and - in some extreme cases - leads her colleagues to punish the mistresses.
'A mistress deserves to be beaten,' Zhang said in a previous interview with MailOnline. 'You have to strip off her pants first so that she couldn't run away.'
In the past two decades, Ms Zhang, a divorcee in her 50s, has helped more than 200,000 Chinese women deal with their marriage crises.
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