There are many stories of kings and defeats in Chinese history, but to say the most representative examples, Xiaobian can think of two characters without thinking, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu. The story of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony two thousand years ago is now widely known, and many people are still feeling sorry for Xiang Yu. These two people competed for the world in the Central Plains, and the mausoleum after death was completely different, one brilliant and one desolate!
As we all know, the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang set off a wave of rebellion in the last years of the Qin Dynasty, of which Xiang Yu from the family of generals and Liu Bang, who was born from a leper family, were among the "best". Xiang Yu first supported the grandson of King Huai of Chu as king, and then posthumously honored him as "Emperor Yi". After the fall of Qin, Xiang Yu deposed Emperor Yi and proclaimed himself the King of Western Chu, and the Great Seal destroyed Qin Gongchen and the nobles of the Six Kingdoms as kings, and Liu Bang was divided into Han Kings, ruling Bashu and Hanzhong. After this, a four-year-long "Chu-Han dispute" broke out between Liu Xiang and Liu Xiang.
Narrow roads meet, a mountain does not tolerate two tigers, and their world battle is bound to need to be won or lost and the result. From the perspective of the process, it seems that public opinion morality is more biased towards Xiang Yu's side, perhaps, sympathizing with the weak is the innate nature of human beings, or perhaps Xiang Yu really occupies the high point of social morality and people's hearts. On the contrary, from the perspective of the ending, Liu Bang did win, and Xiang Yu lost Liu Bang even more, and people also had a lot of criticism of this.
In 202 BC, After the defeat of Xiang Yu's army, he killed himself on the bank of the Wu River, ending a brilliant life. According to historical records, after Xiang Yu's death, all the chu land in the world belonged to the King of Han, but King Lu swore that he would not return to him. In order to buy people's hearts and minds in order to recover Ludi, Liu Bang took the initiative to bury Xiang Yu in Huashan Zhiyang (present-day Tai'an, Shandong), which was later called the "Tomb of the Overlord".
On the surface, it seems that Xiang Yu will obviously win more voices and empathy than Liu Bang. Liu Bang's mausoleum is naturally labeled "imperial tomb", golden and brilliant, tall, and it is not an exaggeration to use these words to describe his cemetery. Of course, no matter how noble an imperial tomb is, if it is not "popular", it will also look very desolate, and Liu Bang's imperial tomb is not only noble but also constantly has people coming to worship him. Let's take a look at Liu Bang's counterpart, the burial place of Xiang Yu, which is not only remote and desolate, but also looks like the previous scribbles were completed, and the grave was used to grow crops, and this place has always been sparsely populated, let alone people to worship.