Farewell My Concubine refers to the historical story of Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, who bid farewell to his favorite concubine Yu Ji after his defeat.
I. Notes:
Ji: refers to the Western Chu king Xiang Yu's favorite concubine Yu Ji. Describe the tragic scene of the end of the hero. Now more metaphorical dictatorship, detached from the masses, and ultimately collapsed.
Source
The Records of the Grand Historian (史记-项羽本纪): Xiang Yu, the king of the Western Chu Dynasty, was defeated in the war with Liu Bang to seize the right to feudal domination, and he had to say goodbye to Yu Ji on the eve of the breakout.
Three, historical allusions
Xiang Yu looked back to the past, there is a beautiful Yu Ji accompanied by their own side: there is a BMW Zhui, often riding on the crotch. And now ...... so Xiang Yu on the generous song of sadness, their own poetry: "force can pull mountains ah bravado overwhelmed the world, the timing is unfavorable ah Zhui horse does not gallop. What should I do if my piebald horse doesn't run? How should I place you, Yu Ji?" He sang this song again and again, and Yu Ji also sang with him. Xiang Yu shed several lines of tears, and all the people around him also cried, no one could raise their heads to look at him.
Four, related characters
1, Xiang Yu (232 years ago - 202 years ago), the end of the Qin Dynasty, the famous military, "courageous fighting school" representative, is a generation of heroes and heroines who are capable of carrying the tripod, the air pressure of 10,000 people. Shortly after the Da Ze Xiang Uprising, Xiang Yu and his uncle Xiang Liang rose to power after killing the county magistrate in Huiji County and raised an army against the Qin Dynasty. After the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu led his army into Guanzhong, and he was able to destroy the tyrannical Qin with his five vassals, which made him a great hero in the world. After the death of Qin, Xiang Yu divided the world into eighteen feudal lords. Xiang Yu not only had outstanding bravery and courage, but also left behind the ancient masterpiece "Gaixia Song". Sima Qian commented: "All the major policies were made by Yu, and he was called the king of Western Chu, with the same power as the emperor. Though his position did not end, it has not been seen since ancient times." His appearance set off an earth-shattering storm for the history of China and wrote down an everlasting myth. Xiang Yu was defeated by the allied forces of Liu Bang and various vassals at Gaixia in 202 B.C. He killed himself by the Wu River at the age of 31.
2. Yu Ji (虞姬), one of the famous female characters in the late Qin Dynasty, was known as "Beauty of Yu" (虞美人). Today Shuyang County (Shuyang, belonging to Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, because it is located in the sun of the Shu River and named) Yanji Township people, said Shaoxing County Lizhu Town Tashi Village people. According to "Jiangxi Ji'an Luling Xiang genealogy" records: Yu after the birth of five phoenixes in the house, the smell of foreign incense in the court, was born in Dingchou (224 BC) died Heihai (202 BC), buried Pengcheng. Yu Ji was the favorite concubine of Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, who was said to have a beautiful face, talent and beautiful dance. She had been accompanying Xiang Yu in the plight of Chu songs on all sides. Although the history books did not introduce the end of Yu Ji, later people inferred that she killed herself in the Chu camp according to Xiang Yu's "Gaixia Song". Thus the beautiful myth of "Farewell My Concubine" was staged. Her story has left an indelible mark on the river of history and touched generations of people. Yu Ji, this beautiful name, will be an immortal legend in our hearts.
Story:When the Chu and Han Dynasties were fighting, Xiang Yu, the king of the Western Chu Dynasty, and Liu Bang were fighting for the throne, and the war lasted for more than ten years. In the end, Xiang Yu was defeated in Wujiang River, knowing that the situation was over, and on the eve of the breakout, he had to say goodbye to Yu Ji, and finally killed himself.
V. Historical Stories
One of the main forces in the late Qin peasant revolt, Xiang Yu's army, destroyed more than 300,000 Qin troops in the Battle of Julu, leading to the final demise of the Qin dynasty. Xiang Yu was young and mighty, with boundless strength and outstanding martial arts skills, holding a zhang eight spear and a piebald horse under his seat, and was invincible in life and in death. After the destruction of the Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu, who was the most powerful man in the world, established himself as the hegemonic king of Western Chu.
He re-divided the Qin unified China into eighteen vassals, he did not according to the size of the war, military strength, but according to their own will and seal, causing dissatisfaction of the various vassals. The most powerful of them was Liu Bang, who was made King of Han and commanded the areas of Ba, Shu and Hanzhong. This is the place where the Qin dynasty banished the prisoners, the Han army generals are mostly from Shandong, who do not want to be away from home to this remote barren and savage land, the soldiers and generals often escape.
Liu Bang was very annoyed with Xiang Yu, but he was an extremely thoughtful man, listening to the strategist's plan, to build up his strength, taking the opportunity of the king of the army to send troops to attack Qi, to send troops to capture Guanzhong, to seize the son of the king of the land, and to take advantage of the victory of the great eastward march.