Xiang Yu was the grandson of the famous Chu general Xiang Yan and an important leader of the peasant revolt at the end of Qin. Although he was eventually defeated in the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, he was still a Gestapo. In the battle with Liu Bang, Xiang Yu had the advantage most of the time, and had repeatedly forced Liu Bang into a desperate situation. In 205 BC, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought a decisive battle at Pengcheng, and as a result, Xiang Yu beat Liu Bang's army of more than 500,000 with 30,000 elites. Liu Bang fled in a hurry, and in order to reduce the weight of the car on the way, he kicked his own children out of the car three times, and he was embarrassed.
In the winter of the same year, the Chu and Han sides once again dueled in Xingyang, Liu Bang was still not an opponent, thanks to the death of his subordinate Ji Xin, Liu Bang was lucky to escape the disaster. In the more than 4 years of the Chu-Han rivalry, Liu Bang was in the inferior position for a long time, but in the end, he successfully overturned in the Battle of Xiaxia and laughed to the end. Although Xiang Yu was ultimately defeated, as a tragic hero, he still won the admiration of countless literati and inkers. In particular, his bravery and martial arts are unsurpassed in the same era. The "History of Xiang Yu Benji" records that the nationality is more than eight feet long, the strength can carry the ding, and the talent is outstanding, although wu zhongzi's sons have all been exhausted.
However, Sima Qian did not explain how heavy Xiang Yuju's ding was, and among the bronze dings unearthed now, the largest and heaviest was the Western Zhou beast-faced dragon pattern dading, which was 122 cm high, 83 cm in caliber, and weighed 226 kg. But in folklore, the Chu Bawang lifted the ding far more than this weight. There are two versions of the legend of the Overlord carrying the Ding, the first version telling the story of Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang when they rose up. At that time, in order to strengthen his own momentum, Xiang Liang sent Xiang Yu to contact Huan Chu to oppose Qin together.
Unexpectedly, Huan Chu was very arrogant and arrogant, and he said to Xiang Yu on his toes: "If you can oppose ten thousand people, we will obey you, there is a big ding in the courtyard, a thousand pounds, can you lift it?" Xiang Yu first asked Huan Chu's 4 Hercules to raise the Ding together, but the Big Ding did not move at all as if it had taken root. At this time, Xiang Yu stood up, only to see him striding to the front of Ding, holding Ding's feet, and lifting up his strength to shout "up"! Not only did he lift the big ding high, but he also lifted it three times in a row. Huan Chu and his men were stunned to see that Xiang Yu was a heavenly god, and they willingly followed Xiang Yu to raise an army and became his general.
The second version of the Overlord Carrying Ding is about the love story of Xiang Yu and Yu Ji. When Xiang Yu was passing through Yujiagou in Shuyang once, he rescued a woman who had lost her footing and fell into the water because of Cailing, and this woman was Yu Ji. After Xiang Yu left, Yu Ji kept thinking about this unknown benefactor, so she asked her brother to inquire. One day Yu Ji's brother went to Suqian to catch the temple fair, and there was a thousand pounds of copper in the temple, and many people went to try it, but they couldn't move. At this time, a young man came out of the crowd and easily raised da Ding over his head, this person was Xiang Yu. Yu Ji's brother invited Xiang Yu to his home as a guest, and eventually achieved a marriage.
In these two folklore, Xiang Yu lifted the big dings of about a thousand pounds, and at that time one pound was equal to sixteen two, which was converted into the current weight of 625 pounds. The modern Olympic world record for the deadlift over 105 kg is 263.5 kg, or 527 kg, a record set by Iranian weightlifter Lazarzadeh at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, for which he was also called "the most powerful man in the world". But this record is still 50 kilograms away from Chu Bawang, and from this point of view, if Xiang Yu can cross over to participate in the modern Olympic Games, it is a foregone conclusion to win the gold medal.