While most statues exist to honor an individual, these statues of Qin Hui and his wife, Lady Wang, along with two subordinates, were made for the purpose of humiliation. Presented kneeling on the ground with heads bowed in shame, these statues have been spit on, cursed, beat, and struck by shoes of visitors to this temple for centuries. But what did Qin Hui do to earn this legacy? To answer that question, we must first meet Yue Fei. A general under the Southern Song Dynasty, he was tasked with repelling…
