Assassin Legend 411 - How to evaluate the King of Jing ke? Yes also? Non-also? Hero or coward?

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After the death of Prince Dan, in order to commemorate him, the descendants renamed the Yanshui river where he had hidden, and renamed it Prince River. Since then, the rich and beautiful Prince River has begun to circulate various legends of Prince Dan.

Of course, if you want to pursue the main responsibility for Jing Ke's failure to stab Qin, Prince Dan is definitely a very important person. But if you go back to that particular era, if you think about it from the perspective of Prince Dan, it may be a different view. The weak Yan state could not stop the footsteps of the Qin army at all. Perhaps in Prince Dan's view, there was no choice but assassination.

Assassinating the King of Qin is a kind of dignity, a kind of backbone, and an attitude of resistance.

Looking back at Prince Dan again, he has been depressed all his life, and with sad colors. As the prince of the noble country, he was treated as a pawn and successively served as a hostage in the Zhao and Qin states. Especially in the Qin kingdom, he suffered an unbearable cold reception. He found Jing Ke through Tian Guang and took Jing Ke as all his sustenance; later, he was killed by his own father, and his head was given to the King of Qin, whom he deeply hated.

It's really ruthless and the most imperial family!

As for the Thorn Qin Jingke, for thousands of years, the controversy has not been broken.

Sima Qian in the Chronicle of History. The Biography of the Assassins depicts the five assassins Cao Mo, Zhuan Zhu, Yu Rang, Nie Zheng, and Jing Ke, and the other four succeeded, only Jing Ke failed. When it comes to the reputation in the future, the first few stacks are estimated to be far less than Jing Ke. Why? The reason I give is as follows:

1. The target of Jing Ke's assassination was the greedy and violent Qin King Yingzheng, who was about to unify the Six Kingdoms. The bigger the goal, the more compelling it is.

2. The State of Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, and for the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, which has been suppressed and ravaged for a long time, it has no good impression on it. And Jing Ke came out of nowhere and dared to say no to Violent Qin! He was like a spokesperson for their fight against violence.

3. Sympathize with the psychology of the weak. When one side is too strong and the other is too weak, people can't help but sympathize with the weak, especially the weak who fail. The failure of Jing Ke to stab Qin has a more tragic beauty, which makes people pass it on by word of mouth.

4. Ups and downs. Just like watching a TV series or movie, if the plot is too bland, it will have no taste, and the twists and turns of the plot are more fascinating. Whether it is Jing Ke himself, or the background and process of Qin, it is full of legend.

5. The debate of justice or not. The reason why Jingke's reputation is so great lies in the contradiction, complexity, justice and injustice of its hedgehog, thus giving posterity more talk.

6. When Yi Shui bid farewell, Jing Ke sang: "The wind is xiao xiao and the water is cold, and the hero will not return once he is gone." Just such a poem that has been recited for thousands of years makes jingke desolate, tragic, and generous in his suffering, I don't know how much it has been promoted! Without this poem, there would never have been as much lyricism and sighing as later generations.

Some people praised Jing Ke, saying that he made "violent Qin seize the courage, cowardly man increase his temper (Sima Zhen)", praised him for "easy to run out of water, JingQing's name is not consumed (Jia Dao)", "sad songs are easy to be cold, and the ancient times have seen the essence (Lu You)". There are also those who praise Jing Ke to borrow the ancient irony of the present and lament the ancient people's hearts, such as "the four heroic and fierce winds, the sincerity of the white rainbow." At the beginning of the letter pass, the qi had swallowed the ancestral dragon. Although the matter is not enough, the light is infinite. The people of today are shrunken like cold insects (Gao Sid)", "Tao Qianshi said Jing Ke, wanting to see The Clouds and singing. Groaning to the enmity of the heart, the jianghu hero is afraid of not much (Gong Zizhen)"...

There are also many people who criticize Jing Ke, such as Liu Zongyuan: "How sharp the construction is, and the matter is even zī jū." Changhong vomited daylight, and the pawn was cursed. "It means how ambitious and sharp you were at the beginning, but at the critical moment, you hesitated and wandered, and you couldn't strike a fatal blow." In the end, he ended up being killed in a hurry, while Zhou Tan, Sima Guang, Zhu Xi, and others said that Jing Ke was bent on going his own way, stupid, and brave enough to be a puppeteer.

Su Xun, one of the "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties", was even more scathing, and he said conclusively: "The beginning of the disaster is quick." This means that Jing Ke's action of stabbing Qin hastened the death of the Yan kingdom. His son Su Dongpo said: "Jing Ke is not enough to say, Tian Zi is old and frightening." Yan Zhao Duoqishi, Xi Zhao is also a false name! "As a rare literary hero in ancient and modern times, he actually overturned a boat of people with a pole." He not only denied Jing Ke and Tian Guang, but also even said that "Yan Zhaoduo is generous and sad", which is "sorry for his name".

From today's point of view, regardless of anything else, it is also worthy of great praise for Jing Ke's courage to resist the violent Qin with a weak body, and for his generous and sad songs and unrepentant deeds. His behavior inherits the spirit and heroic feelings of "knowing that you can't do it", and is a positive energy worth learning. Prince Dan's approach is a different matter. As for Jing Ke's assassination of Qin, whether it is a historical progress or a regression, it is even more a matter of benevolence and wisdom.

For Jing Ke, I also want to say: "Although his people are gone, there are still remnants of a thousand years. ”