Jing Ke stabbed the king of Qin, which is a tragic and touching historical story told through the ages. It happened at the end of the Warring States Period in 227 BC, six years before Qin unified China. At that time, the trend of Qin's unification of the whole country was set: North Korea had been eliminated, Chu, Wei and Yan were in name only, and Qi was in danger. Yan is located in the northeast of Zhao, and it is a weak country. At the beginning, in order to have a good relationship with Qin, the prince gave Prince Taizi Dan to Qin as a hostage. However, the Qin Dynasty was unlucky, and Taizi Dan fled back to Yan in 232 BC. In order to resist Qiang Qin's massive attack, but also to "see the tomb" revenge, Taizi Dan wanted to send warriors to hijack the king of Qin, "to make him know the place of the princes"; If it fails, the king of Qin will be assassinated and seized power, causing national chaos, and then the princes will jointly break Qin. The story of Jing Ke stabbing the king of Qin happened in this background. After the defeat, the State of Qin attacked the State of Yan on a large scale and destroyed it in 222 BC.
Scholars' evaluation of Jing Ke's stabbing of Qin Wang: Su Xun criticized Jing Ke's trip in the Northern Song Dynasty and said, "It was a disaster from the beginning." . In the Southern Song Dynasty, Bao Biao wrote a note for the Warring States Policy, saying, "It's not enough for Tao." Zhu believes that "one's courage is not enough"
Does Jing Ke really have the courage to stab the king of Qin?
At that time, when Tang Ju denounced the king of Qin, he said: "Zhuan Xu stung, and the comet hit the moon; Nie Zhengzhi stabbed Han Yu and Bai Hongguan; If you want to leave a thorn, Cang ying will hit the temple. These three sons are all men in cloth, and they are furious. They just descended to heaven and joined the ministers. " ("Warring States Policy Wei Ce")
As mentioned above, Jing Ke was one of the famous The Four Assassins in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. However, the assassination of Zhuan Xu, Nie Zheng and Li Jue was purely "a scholar died for his bosom friend", while Jing Ke basically did it not for his own self-interest, but for "national affairs".
Therefore, there are more people who are sure of Jing Ke.
The first one is Sima Qian. At the end of Biography of the Assassin in Historical Records, he said, "It's ridiculous that he has a clear mind, does not deceive his ambition, and is famous for later generations." Zuo Si's Fu on Jing Ke praised him as "although there is no brave day, it is also very different from the world", and "humble people feel inferior, but they are extremely important". Tao Qian said that he "has lost his life for thousands of years". In modern times, Gong Zizhen praised him as a "chivalrous man in the Jianghu".
Most critics believe that although Jing Ke didn't understand that it was difficult to turn the tide by one person, nor did he understand that the unification of the Qin Empire was an inevitable trend of historical development, his spirit and spirit of standing up in the troubled times of the country without fear of violence and sacrifice was still commendable. General Liu Bocheng holds Ye Ting's poem "Let's stop the Yellow River, a tragic man, go out and shout for the general", which does not contain praise for Jing Ke.