That is Xiang Yu.
“The world is overwhelming with all our strength, but the times are unfavorable and the talents will not fade away. There is nothing we can do if the talents are not dying, but there is nothing we can do if we are worried.”
Xiang Ji (232 BC- 202 BC), courtesy name Yu (pay special attention to Xiang Yu's original name, courtesy name Yu), from Xiaxiang (now Suqian, Jiangsu Province). The grandson of Xiang Yan, the famous general of Chu State, the leader of the ancient Chinese uprising, a famous military strategist, and the strongest general in Chinese history! A representative figure of the "brave war" school of Chinese military thought. He is known as the Overlord of Western Chu. After the fall of Chu, the Xiang family was brutally massacred. He and his younger brother Xiang Zhuang followed their uncle Xiang Liang into exile in Wuzhong (today's Huzhou, Zhejiang). When he was young, Xiang Liang once asked someone to teach him calligraphy and poetry, but he got tired of it after a while. Later Liang asked someone to teach him martial arts, but he stopped learning after a while. Liang was furious! Ji said: "Studying literature is only about remembering names; learning martial arts is just about being able to defeat a hundred with one person; if you want to learn literature, you can only learn how to defeat ten thousand people!" So Liang taught him the art of war. But after learning for a while, he was unwilling to learn anymore, so Liang had no choice but to follow him and ignore him. He was eight feet tall, could carry a tripod (the origin of the term "overlord holding a tripod"), and had the power to overwhelm tens of thousands of people. He had extremely lofty ambitions when he was young. Once when Qin Shihuang was on a patrol crossing Zhejiang (today's Qiantang River), Xiang Yu saw the majesty of his chariots and horses, and blurted out: "He can replace him (I can replace him)." In the first year of Qin II (209 BC), Chen Sheng , Wu Guang raised his arms in Daze Township and rose up (i.e., the Daze Township Uprising). Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Liang to assassinate the prefect Yin Tong in Wuzhong and raised his troops to respond. In this battle, Xiang Yu killed nearly a hundred of Yin Tong's guards alone, showing his unparalleled power for the first time. Martial arts! The 24-year-old Xiang Yu was pushed onto the stage of history by the storm of people's uprising.
Xiang Yu, a descendant of the famous general of Chu, led an uprising with eight thousand soldiers. He divided his forces into two groups and captured Xianyang to wipe out the Qin State. Xiang Yu wanted to unify the country and fought decisively with Peigong Liu Bang for five years. In the end, he did not listen to his father Fan Zeng's words. Lishan accidentally hit Han Xin's formation, the entire Chu army was destroyed, and Xiang Yu committed suicide in Wujiang River.
The life of Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Chu, was born in troubled times, and he rose up with his camera; he bravely championed the three armies and dominated the situation; he led his troops northward to fight for the Central Plains, aspired to the throne of Xianyang, and split the soil to become the king. In the end, he became a traitor due to his own weakness in character. That was the tragedy of his life. With the bloody sword at the Wujiang River crossing, Xiang Yu's tragic fate came to a regrettable end. Tragic history hides the fate of tragic characters. The tragedy of Xiang Yu's character is confirmed by the historical facts of the Chu-Han War.
Standing on the long river of history. Facing the tragedy of Xiang Yu’s life, sighing that “I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross the Yangtze River” is not the positive attitude we should have; we should be more optimistic about the future of our lives. In the process, we constantly temper our will, temper our character repeatedly, grasp the boat of our destiny, and better sail towards the ideal shore of the ocean of life.