Sima Qian's "History of Xiang Yu Benji": "Therefore, chu nan gong said: 'Although Chu has three households, qin will die in Chu' also. ”
At least three explanations can be found in the academic community for this sentence in the historical record
The first theory: referring to the place name, is the Chu people's ancestral temple, located in Shiyan City, Hubei Province, Danjiangkou Reservoir area, historically here is the Chu State of sanhu city.
The second theory refers to the third surname of the Chu state, Qu, Jing, and Zhao.
The third saying: the metaphor of three families, the metaphor of small power, great determination.
Academics like the second one the most, because this statement is the most learned, just as Kong Yiji knows that "anise" has four ways to write.
The public likes the third kind the most, taking this sentence as a proverb, using later facts to refute it, there is a sense of revenge pleasure of blood debt and blood payment, and at the same time, it also brings people the hope of turning over and becoming the master. Especially later, the Chu people won the world, and this language had a basis for dissemination.
What I want to say is that in fact, there were indeed three Chu forces that caused Qin to perish, and some people said that it was Chen Shi, Xiang Yu, and Liu Bang. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were naturally the main forces of external forces to destroy Qin, and it is needless to say, but Chen Shi belonged to the far-fetched association. In fact, the first force to destroy Qin I think comes from the Chu people Li Si, Li Si (about 280 BC - 208 BC), the character Tonggu. At the end of the Warring States period, the Chu state was a Cai person. Representative figure of the Dharma. Why? Just a few important events.
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First, the state system after the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Six Kingdoms adopted a unified centralized county system, which was a bad idea from Li Si. At that time, the county system seemed to be far-sighted, but it hid near-term disasters. The county system has been implemented in the Qin State for many years, of course, no problem, but for the implementation of the other six countries, it must be an over hasty move, completely abolishing the sub-feudal system, and when the world is in chaos, there is no outside Win's power to come back to aid the center. This system has placed Qin in an isolated position in the central defense of the Qin Dynasty. Later, the Western Han Dynasty of the Liu clan adopted the county system, that is, one country, two systems in parallel with counties and princely states, which obviously learned the lessons of Qin. As an aside, one country, two systems has a history of more than two thousand years in China, and it is not only from Hong Kong!
Second, the bad idea of burning poetry books was made by Li Si, and this incident was unpopular and became the basis of public opinion against Qin, and Qin was ideologically placed in an absolutely isolated position. In addition, in the incident of Qin Shi Huang's pit warlock, Gongzi Fusu was explicitly opposed, while The Chancellor Li Si did not express his position! This is equally unpopular. The book burning pit Confucianism, now more than two thousand years later, is still spurned, which shows the degree of evil.
Third, Lis renegade,
In 210 BC, Shi Huang fell ill and died on a tour, and Li Si obeyed Zhao Gao's plan out of selfishness, secretly did not send mourning, and corrected the edict to force The First Emperor's eldest son
Fu Su committed suicide
, and killed the Montessori brothers together. Hu Hai, the second son of the private first emperor, was the second emperor. Without the participation of The Minister Li Si, Zhao Gao's position at that time would never have succeeded. After that, Hu Hai slaughtered his brothers and sisters, which was equivalent to abolishing the martial arts of the Win clan.
In summary, the three Chu people should have combined and killed the powerful Qin Dynasty, and Li Si's three moves isolated Qin from the central defense, isolated Qin ideologically, and weakened Qin from the family, these three moves should be the first miracle to destroy Qin, and finally lost the lives of his own three tribesmen. Xiang Yu externally destroyed Qin's living forces (Zhang Handan's department), and eventually took his own life. With the wisdom of the elite team and incredible ambition, Liu Bang became the last big yellow bird!
Of course, there are many reasons for the death of Qin Dynasty II, and here I only say that the thinking caused by the "three households destroying Qin" ...