Qin Juniper's name had long been firmly tied to the "traitorous courtier", and in the twenty-fifth year of Song Shaoxing (1155), Qin Juniper died of illness, and the nickname given at that time was "Zhongxian". That is to say, Qin Ju was buried as a loyal subject when he died. As for how to evaluate Qin Juniper, historians still debate it endlessly.
However, more than three hundred years after Qin Juniper's death, the Ming Dynasty official Zhou Mu cast the kneeling statue of Qin Juniper for the first time, a measure that has been passed down to this day, and the iron cast Qin Juniper kneeling statue is preserved in front of Yue Fei's tomb on the West Lake in Hangzhou. The existence of the kneeling statue has made the image of Qin Juniper's traitor more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and Qin Juniper's descendants have also come to visit the kneeling statue.
The well-known "descendants of Qin Juniper" in history included Qin Dashi, who was a champion during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, who saw the kneeling statue and smiled bitterly and groaned a couplet: "People are ashamed of their names from the Song Dynasty, and I am ashamed of my surname Qin before I go to the grave." "After entering the 21st century, two more descendants of Qin Juniper have attracted the attention of the public.
One is Qin Liang, who claims to be the thirty-second grandson of Qin Juniper, and as a middle school teacher, Qin Liang naturally knows the historical past between his ancestors and Yue Fei. Qin Liang once proposed that although Qin Juniper was guilty, the greatest sin of kneeling for so many years should be redeemed, and Qin Juniper had not done anything to hurt his mother-in-law, and he should not kneel with his mother-in-law.
To this end, Qin Liang demanded that the kneeling statue of Qin Juniper in front of the temple of his mother-in-law be removed, which naturally caused controversy. Although Qin Liang's words did not come to fruition, in 2005, there were statues of Qin Juniper and his wife in China, which were also exhibited at the Shanghai Museum of Art. The portrait was made by an artist named Jin Feng, who said he did so out of respect for human rights.
At that time, in addition to some students and historians, there was also another descendant of Qin Juniper, Qin Shili. Qin Juniper's ancestral home is Jiangning, Nanjing, and the elderly Qin Shili has been living in Huashu Village, Tangshan Town, Jiangning, which is scattered with descendants of the Qin family, and there are about 150 families in the village.
The old man Qin Shili is more than 80 years old, and his generation is quite high. He usually likes to study the history of the Song Dynasty and knows the story of the family very well. It is conceivable that the appearance of Qin Juniper's descendants will inevitably lead to interviews, and when the elderly Qin Shili was asked about the grudge between the ancestors and Yue Fei, he only said that the ancestors' past was not good to evaluate, and historians had their own judgments.
However, the old man Qin Shili also proposed to resolve the enmity between the Qin family and the Yue family, after all, the Qin family has also been loyal in history, and the historical Qin Ju has an adopted son named Qin Xi, and there is a famous anti-Jin general named Qin Ju in the descendants of Qin Xi, and in 1221 AD, the Jin soldiers invaded on a large scale, and Qin Ju, who guarded Puzhou, desperately resisted the enemy, and finally the enemy was killed by self-immolation.
Qin Shili very much wanted to have a meal with the descendants of the Yue family and exchange history. After his words were disseminated through the media, they actually received a response. In 2008, Yue Fei's 30th grandson Yue Shunyuan publicly invited the elderly Qin Shili to dinner and tea at the Yue family in Nanjing to discuss the historical story of Qin Juniper and Yue Fei.
This news also caused widespread discussion at that time: how could the descendants of the traitors and the descendants of the loyal ministers eat together? However, neither side cared about the outside world's opinion, and the matter was not resolved. In the author's opinion, Yue Shunyuan's approach is actually not wrong, after all, Qin Juniper is Qin Juniper, Qin Shili is Qin Shili, and what Qin Juniper does should not make his descendants discriminate.