Professor Ko Ching-ming states: "With a personality like Jiao Zhongqing's, he can neither maintain his own honor nor fight for his wife's dignity. He is not a good husband, and since he ends his own life, neither is he a good son to his mother.
「焦仲卿的個性，不但不能維護自己的尊嚴，也無法顧及妻子的尊嚴；對母親終是不孝，對妻子又何嘗有義？其情可憫，但其事可哀啊！」