I. Fan Kuai's biography and translation:
Fan Kuai, a native of Peixian County, lives in Wuyang, and once hid in Mangshan and Dangshan with Gaozu to avoid disaster. At first, Fan Kuai followed Gao and his ancestors in Fengyi and captured Pei County. High-impedance became Pei Gong, taking Fan Kuai as the shed. Fan Kuai followed Pei Gong to attack Hu Ling and Yu Fang, returned to the army to station in Fengyi, and defeated the army of Surabaya County Governor in Fengyi area.
Second, the original biography of Fan Kuai:
Fan Kuai, the marquis of Wuyang, is a versatile man, who takes killing dogs as his business and hides from Gaozu. At the beginning, I started from Gao Zufu and captured Feng. High-impedance for repeatedly, to quantico. From attacking Hu Ling, Yu Fang, but also defending Feng from attacking Surabaya and breaking it under the supervision of Feng.
Third, the expansion of knowledge-the source of ancient prose:
One of the twenty-four histories of Historical Records, formerly known as Taishi Gong Shu or Taishi Gong Gong Ji, is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty, and the first biographical general history in the history of China. The work has written a history of more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to the fourth year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
The ancient book Historical Records includes biographies 12, 30 families, 70 biographies, tables 10, 8 books, and historical records 130, with 526,500 words, 395,000 more words than Huainanzi and 28 more than Lv Chunqiu. It is huge in scale and has a far-reaching influence on biographical history books. The official history of all dynasties was written in this genre.
Fourth, knowledge expansion-appreciation of works:
The unique narrative art of Historical Records pays great attention to the deeper exploration of the causal relationship of events, synthesizes all kinds of historical books of the previous generation, and forms a unified statement, with twelve biographies and ten tables as the representative vertically, describing all historical times before the middle of the Western Han Dynasty, and eight books, thirty families and seventy biographies as the representative horizontally, governing all classes, nationalities, fields and industries.
Biography of Xiang Yu is one of the most important and wonderful chapters in Historical Records. Historically, it specifically recorded the magnificent historical situation during the struggle between Chu and Han. Literally speaking, this article is the earliest masterpiece of narrative art centered on characters in China's prose. It depicts a thrilling picture of war and a classic tragic hero image of Xiang Yu.