During the peasant uprising in the late Qin Dynasty, Xiang Yu led the Chu army to defeat Qin Jun in the Julu War, which led to the demise of the Qin Dynasty. Since then, Xiang Yu has become the leader of the uprising army. He relied on his own strength and became the overlord of the western Chu. And he enfeoffed the state of Qin to various governors and named Liu Bang Hanwang. Liu Bang's ambition is not satisfied with Little Hanwang.
He is saving his strength in his fief, recruiting talents and talents, and his strength is getting stronger and stronger. Finally, I found the right time to attack Xiang Yu. This war is also called the battle between Chu and Han. The Chu-Han War lasted for four or five years. Liu Bang is a man of great mind, with many advisers under his command, and joined forces with other governors to encircle Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu was headstrong, arrogant and unwilling to listen to advice, arbitrary, and there were no resourceful people around him to assist him.
After being incited by spies and villains, Liu Bang and others took the initiative to attack and head for Gaixia, and Xiang Yu was just waiting for him to be caught in a trap, so that he could win in one fell swoop. So Xiang Yu was trapped and broke through several times without success. Many people under Liu Bang can sing Chu songs, so let people sing Chu songs to shake the hearts of the Chu army. When the soldiers of the Chu army heard the songs of the surrounding hometown, they mistakenly thought that Liu Bang had occupied their hometown, and began to lose heart and fled.
Seeing that Xiang Yu was trapped, the tide was gone and there was nothing he could do. He was very sad. Thinking that Yu Ji was trapped here with her own expedition, she told Yu Ji sadly about her difficulties. Yu Ji followed Xiang Yu for many years and had never seen her husband so miserable and depressed. I also know that I am running out of luck, and time is running out. I hope Xiang Yu can break through, and I don't want to drag my husband down, so I will commit suicide.
Xiang Yu was so sad that he could only bury concubine hastily. Finally, we successfully broke through with the few soldiers. Being chased by Liu Bang to the Wujiang River, Xiang Yu felt ashamed to see his elders in Jiangdong, gave up his escape and committed suicide by the Wujiang River.
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Overlord and concubine. The heartbreaking love story has left countless sighs and regrets for future generations, which makes the literati chant repeatedly and last for thousands of years. Farewell My Concubine is the eternal swan song of China history. It is also a classic theme of artistic creation, among which Peking Opera Farewell My Concubine is particularly popular.
However, compared with previous works with the same theme, the time span of the dance drama Farewell My Concubine has been greatly lengthened, which has turned a ten-fold drama in Beijing opera into a complete dance drama with a length of one and a half hours. Through rich dance vocabulary, it depicts Xiang Yu's simple character of "not being an emperor as a hero", Yu Ji's persistent friendship of "being a beauty all her life" and Liu Bang's inner transformation from brotherhood to facing the pretentious state of the country.
In the play, there are not only war scenes filled with smoke, but also tender and lingering love, and there is also a personality collision between men.
The whole drama consists of two acts and five scenes, starting from Xiang Yu's uprising against Qin, and reaching its climax after cross the rubicon, banquet at Hongmen, demarcation of the gap, ambush on all sides and being besieged. This elegy of love, which is interpreted by dancing, is not only touching, but also refreshing.
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