Sima qian biography of jing ke long

Ancient Chinese assassin

Jing Ke (died BC) was a youxia during the late Warring States period of Ancient China. As a retainer of Crown Prince Dan of the Yan state, he was infamous for his failed assassination attempt on King Zheng of the Qin state, who later became Qin Shi Huang, the Qin Dynasty's first emperor (from BC to BC).

His story is told in the chapter titled Biographies of Assassins (刺客列傳) in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian.

Jing ke fgo

Jing ke fgo

For the possibility that the biography of Jing Ke was authored not by Sima Qian but by his father, Tan, see Derk Bodde, Statesman, Patriot and General in An-.

How did qin shi huang die

Jing Ke is a man whom Sima Qian biographies (Document 13), and as Sima unceremoniously relates to the reader, "he tried to impress the ruler of Wei, Prince.

In the historian Sima Qian's 86th chapter of his “史记” (or “Historical Record”), the would-be-assassin, Jing Ke sings these words as he departs the State of.

Background

In BC, the Qin state began conquering other states as part of King Zheng's ambition to unify the country under one rule. The Qin army, having already achieved absolute military supremacy over the other states since BC, first successfully annihilated the state of Han, the weakest of the Seven Warring States.

Two years later, the once-formidable Zhao state was also conquered in BC.^[2]

Zhao's northeastern neighbor, the Yan state was next in line to be threatened by Qin expansion. In exchange for pea