So Liang taught him the art of war. But he didn't want to learn after studying for a while, so Liang had to leave him alone. Eight feet tall, he can carry a tripod (pronounced as gāng, pronounced as "steel") (the origin of the word "overlord lifts a tripod"), and he was extremely ambitious when he was young.
When Qin Shihuang visited Zhejiang (now Qiantang River), Xiang Yu saw his horses and chariots in awe and blurted out, "He can replace him (I can replace him)."
In the first year of Qin Ershi, Chen Sheng and Guangwu rose up in osawa Township (that is, the Daze Township Uprising), and Xiang Yu responded with his uncle Xiang Liang's assassination of the satrap Yintong in Wuzhong. In this campaign, Xiang Yu single-handedly killed nearly 100 Yintong guards, showing his unparalleled martial arts for the first time! Twenty-four-year-old Xiang Yu was thus pushed onto the historical stage by the storm of the people's uprising.
Source: Historical Records of Xiang Yu by Sima Qian in the Western Han Dynasty.
Biography of Xiang Yu is a classical Chinese article written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the seventh volume of Historical Records, which tells the biography of Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu. It recorded the glorious and heroic life of Xiang Yu at the end of Qin Dynasty.
Biography of Xiang Yu vividly and profoundly describes Xiang Yu's life by describing the broad historical scene of the peasant uprising and the dispute between Chu and Han at the end of Qin Dynasty. Xiang Yu is not only a hero who pulled out the mountain with great strength, but also a violent, indecisive man who only knows how to use force but doesn't know what to do.
Sima Qian skillfully unified all aspects of contradictions in Xiang Yu's character into this masterpiece. Although there is no lack of profound criticism, it is more sincere regret and sympathy.
In historical records, most of the records in Historical Records are emperors, among which Xiang Yu did not become an emperor. Sima Qian's classification in Historical Records shows his respect for Xiang Yu.
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Xiang Yu (232 BC-202 BC) was born in Xia Xiang, Surabaya (now Suqian City, Jiangsu Province). At the end of Qin Dynasty, he was the leader of peasant uprising, an outstanding strategist, and the grandson of Xiang Yan, a famous Chu State.
In his early years, he followed his uncle Xiang Liang to participate in Wuzhong anti-Qin uprising, and he was brave and good at fighting. After Xiang Liang was killed, he led the army to cross the river to rescue Zhao Wangxie. The Battle of Julu defeated the main force led by Wang Li, which led to the demise of Qin. Claiming to be the overlord of the West Chu, he made Pengcheng (now Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province) his capital, made a general who contributed to Qin, and made the descendants of the nobles of the six countries king. Hanwang Liu Bang sent troops from Hanzhong, which set off a four-year dispute between Chu and Han.
Xiang Yu repeatedly defeated Liu Bang in the frontal battlefield. Peng Yue constantly destroyed the supplies of Chu troops in the rear. Han Xin unified the north of the Yellow River and sent troops south. Xiang Yu's headstrong, suspicious father Fan Zeng, was defeated by Liu Bang. In 202 BC, Xiang Yu retreated to Gaixia (now Lingbi County, Anhui Province) and attacked Wujiang River (now wujiang town County, Anhui Province). Finally, farewell my concubine, commit suicide in Wujiang River.
As the representative of China's military thought "military situation" (military situation, military tactics, military yin and yang, military skills), Xiang Yu is a military commander who is famous for his outstanding personal force. Li Wanfang commented on Xiang Yu's "brave feathers, unparalleled in the ages."
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