Modern historians have blamed Qin Hui for being a traitor for his part in the persecution and execution of his political enemy, Yue Fei, a general who fought for the Song against the Jin dynasty during the Jin–Song Wars.

After some Song victories in 1137, the Jin empire was forced to reopen peace talks, and Qin gained power as a pacifist.

To open the peace talks, the national hero general Yue Fei, who was famous for his military successes against the Jurchen people, was framed by Qin and his accomplices for disobedience and treason.

He believed that schools should only teach "acceptable ideas" and practiced a strong form of censorship and thought control over the Imperial University.

Qin was worried because, after nearly two months of torture, he could not get Yue Fei to admit the false charges of treason and would eventually have to let him go.

However, after a servant girl brought fresh oranges into the room, Lady Wang devised a plan to execute the general.

She told Qin to slip an execution notice inside the skin of an orange and send it to the examining judge.

[8][9] For their part in Yue Fei's death, iron statues of Qin Hui, Lady Wang, and two of Qin Hui's subordinates, Moqi Xie [zh] and Zhang Jun (Chinese: 張俊), were made to kneel before Yue Fei's tomb (located by Hangzhou's West Lake).

In the novel, The Monkey King faces a representation of his own carnal desires and is trapped inside of a tower full of mirrors, each with its own powers.

There, some junior devils appear and tell him that the ruler of the underworld King Yama has recently died of an illness, and so Monkey must take his place until a suitable replacement can be found.

These tortures include having millions of embroidery needles shoved into his flesh, being ground into paste, thrown onto a mountain of swords and spears, hacked into bits, forced to drink human pus, and his rib cage ripped apart to give him the appearance of a dragon fly.

Monkey finally sends a demon to heaven to retrieve a powerful magic gourd that sucks anyone, who speaks before it, inside, and melts them down into a bloody stew.

Sometime later, the devil, apparently under the evil influence of the blood wine, murders his personal religious teacher and escapes into the "gate of ghosts," presumably being reborn into another existence.

Fengbo lived during the time of Yue Fei and became famous for "Sweeping Qin Hui’s face with a broom".

The story is told after having Yue Fei imprisoned on false charges, Qin went to the Lingyin Temple to have his fortune read.

There are two such statues of these arahats in the Da Xiong Temple Hall of Zhan Tan Forest on the Jiu Hua Mountain.

The fortuneteller's name was "Xie Renfu of Chengdu" and he told the fortunes of both Emperor Gaozong and Qin Hui, who were in disguise, in the Dragon's Intonation Monastery.