The king of the Western Chu hegemony has infinite power, we must have heard many magical legends about Xiang Yu, for example, Xiang Yu took an iron stick in his hand, threw it up to the sky after three days and three nights did not fall down, when I was a child, I heard this strange news once believed, and so on grew up to find that it is just a strange story of wild history.

There is also a saying that Xiang Yu's weapon is a halberd, which weighs 300 pounds. Today's people do not say take 300 pounds of weapons, even if the weightlifter, low weight class can not lift such a heavy thing, is it really today's people are not as good as the ancients? Nonetheless, because 300 pounds of overlord halberd was originally a fake.

According to the Records of the Grand Historian: When I was a young man, I couldn't learn the book, I couldn't learn the sword, and I couldn't learn the sword. Meaning Xiang Yu once learned swordplay, but did not learn it well. Later, when he killed himself in Wujiang River, he ? He ordered all his riders to dismount and walk on foot, and took over the station with short soldiers. The Han army killed hundreds of people by the sole籍.? Here we are talking about short soldiers, that is, swords and knives, and these are the weapons Xiang Yu used.

But Xiang Yu is also really a very famous Hercules in history, so how strong is the historical Xiang Yu?

The original text in the Records of the Grand Historian is recorded as follows:Ji is more than eight feet long, and his strength is able to carry a tripod, and his talent is superior to that of others, even though the children of Wuzhong have been afraid of ji.

Xiang Yu's name is Ji, the word Yu, which means that Xiang Yu is eight feet tall and very strong, able to carry a tripod with both hands. And the Han Book about this record is also copied from the Historical Records, so the legend about the king lifting the tripod, in fact, there is only such a simple record, as for what he lifted the tripod, the tripod how much, are not known at all.

Let's take a look at some of the tripods that have been unearthed today. There are a lot of records of tripods in ancient literature, the most famous of which is the Nine Tripods, which are rumored to have been made by Dayu, but somehow disappeared during the Qin and Han Dynasties. The king of Qin, King Qin Wu, once entered Luoyang and forcibly lifted the tripod of Yongzhou, but it fell and smashed his toes, and he died of infection.

It can be seen that the nine tripods are still very heavy, and King Wu of Qin, who was also a famous Hercules, could only barely lift them, but tripod does not just mean nine tripods. The heaviest tripod unearthed in China today is the Houmuwu tripod, with a height of 133 centimeters, a mouth length of 110 centimeters, a mouth width of 79 centimeters, and a weight of 832.84 kilograms, or more than 1,600 pounds.

But this is the heaviest, there are some light, Xiang Yu is the period of the Qin Dynasty, then we take the Qin Dynasty, the final Qin tripod unearthed today is 61cm high, weighing 212kg, there are some only dozens of kilograms of tripods, so it seems that even if there is a heavier, the Qin tripods should be the final four to five hundred pounds of the appearance of the light is only more than a hundred pounds.

In fact, Xiang Yu can lift up the Qin Ding, we can also lift up today, in fact, the world every year in the various types of weightlifting competitions held in no shortage of Hercules, according to the world record, the world-class 105kg + players, the best results of the snatch from the Iranian Salimi? Kurdasiabi? Behdad, up to 214 kilograms, the best clean and jerk is also Hussein Razazadeh, with a figure of 214 kilograms. Razazadeh, with a figure of 263 kilograms.

That is to say, our weightlifters today, the heaviest can lift more than 500 pounds, which has exceeded the heaviest tripod unearthed today during the Qin Dynasty 100 pounds. Even if Xiang Yu really can lift the tripod, according to common sense, he lifted should not be the heaviest tripod in the Qin Dynasty, even if the bold point of guessing, but also more than 400 pounds.