Talk:Bai Qi

Could someone please check up on this article?

The fact that he killed over one million soldiers seems absolutely unbelievable. I'm not quite sure this article is at all true, but I could be completely wrong. CaydenSelwyn 04:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Count the numbers in Shiji.Rczgpvh (talk) 17:18, 26 July 2009 (UTC)

IN Shiji，the sum of the numbers is 0.89 million. But there should be a lot more, because many battles（61+） recorded come without number of soldiers killed. In China, it is usually believed that much more than a million were killed. However, I don't know where is "1,650,000" from, this number should be a imagine.取名真烦 (talk) 16:11, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Bai Qi truly regreted to cheat and kill the Zhao soldiers before he suicided.

This is recorded in Shiji, which is the most reliable reference. Before the suicide, he asked to him self that "我何罪於天而至此哉？”（What have I done wrong to suffer this?）After a while, he answered himself “我固當死。長平之戰，趙卒降者數十萬人，我詐而盡阬之，是足以死。"（I truly should die. In the Battle of Changping, I cheated and killed hundreds of thousands of surrenderd solders，that is the reason to die.）And then he commited suicide by cutting his own throat.取名真烦 (talk) 18:27, 5 September 2010 (UTC)

Bo Qi

The Cambridge History of Ancient China spells his name Bo Qi. Can someone explain why? Benjamin Trovato (talk) 02:01, 14 October 2010 (UTC)

...er, because their Chinese isn't very good? Bo is an alternative pronounciation of 白 (but I have never heard it used) - see Bai Philg88 (talk) 06:40, 14 October 2010 (UTC)