霸王别姬: the hegemonic king separate his lover.
Few years ago there was a film named ‘Farewell my Concubine’. It was霸王别姬. But it only
translate the last two characters别姬. The first two characters 霸王 means ‘hegemonic
king’.
220
BC, Qin Shi-Huang 秦始皇 united China. As
he ruled this country with a high hand, there were ceaseless armed uprising.
But none of them could succeed. Ten years later that was 210 BC, he died. Again
some more uprising started. Among them two leaders emerged. One was 项羽 the later
hegemonic king and the other刘邦 was the founder
of 汉Han Dynasty; note the so called Chinese
language is in fact汉Han language in Chinese term and the
nation of majority in Chinese is called 汉 Han nation.
项羽 was a brave soldier and good military
strategist. By 60,000 armed men, he beat 400,000 soldier from the government.
While刘邦 didn’t even enrol the battle. But项羽 was a cruel
person he killed 200,000 captives overnight. He killed also the grand-son of秦始皇, (in China, to
kill the former emperor or his descendant was regarded as cruel)
After
the Qin Dynasty was gone, the rest thing was looking for new emperor. As项羽 did many cruel
things, ordinary people didn’t love him, and people love 刘邦, but 项羽’s army was
stronger.
刘邦 had to avoid to fight with项羽. Until刘邦 found a good opportunity
started a sneak attack, by 560,000
soldiers, 刘邦got 项羽’s citadel, when
项羽 was at war with
other. As 项羽 knew his citadel
lost, he lead 30,000 soldiers back home in hurry and beat the 560,000 soldier
of 刘邦 immediately.
Again,
刘邦had to avoid
fighting with项羽. Later 刘邦 managed to sign
a peace treaty with 项羽, but after 项羽 accepted it and
lead his army back home, suddenly刘邦started a blitzkrieg to his enemy, but
this time, he was still the loser. Then 项羽 was inflated
with pride. And only his pride left a chance to 刘邦. He surrounded项羽 by a riverside.
Although 项羽 was a cruel
person, but he was loyal with his love. Throughout his life, he was only love
one woman named 虞姬 (as the film said concubine). While刘邦 had more than
one dozen of women.
The
night when 项羽 preparing a breaking through, the only
thing he worried about is虞姬. He didn’t know how to keep her in safe.
When虞姬knew this, she killed herself by a
sword. 项羽 was so sad to hear the news and in bad
mood he could not win the battle, although he had good chance to cross the river and
called on more armies from there but he felt shame to do it and he committed
suicide finally. That is cruel, bad temper and mysophobia
killed him.
Pic
from: http://hkcgart.com/sqEditor/attached/image/20131202/20131202082832_74745.jpg
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