The story of Farewell My Concubine is first seen in
The Spring and Autumn Annals of Chu and Han and the Records of the Grand Historian Xiang Yu Ben Ji are the earliest records of the story of Farewell My Concubine. The Spring and Autumn Annals of the Chu and Han Dynasties (《楚汉春秋》), in nine volumes, was written by Lu Jia of the Western Han Dynasty. It was written by Lu Jia of the Western Han Dynasty. It is a miscellaneous history from the beginning of Liu Bang and Xiang Yu's uprising to the early period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty. When Sima Qian wrote the Records of the Grand Historian, he picked up this book. After the Northern Song Dynasty, the book was lost. Xiang Yu Ben Ji (项羽本纪) is a literary text written by the Western Han historian Sima Qian (司马迁), included in the seventh volume of the Records of the Grand Historian (史记). It is a book about Xiang Yu (项羽), the king of the Western Chu, which records Xiang Yu's glorious and heroic life at the end of the Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu's life is vividly and profoundly described through the recounting of the grand historical scenes of the great peasant uprisings at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the struggle between the Chu and Han Dynasties. The story of Farewell My Concubine reflects the touching love between Yu Ji and Xiang Yu. The king of Chu was at the end of his heroism, and Yu Ji cut her own throat and martyred herself. This sad moment, has been fixed in the Chinese literature between the lines, fixed in the stage of Chinese opera, and become the most classic Chinese classical love, the most stirring and splendid legend.