Speaking of the overlord Farewell, we will immediately have in our minds an infinitely poignant and moving historical picture: Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, who has not been solved for many days, but still has his eyes as torches, is surrounded, facing the beauty Yu Ji, who is a pear blossom with spring and rain, and a generous and tragic song -- li up the mountain and the world, the time is not good. If you don't die, you can't help it, and if you don't die, you can't help it!
Yu Ji was heartbroken, dancing her sword and making peace—the Han army was already singing on all sides. The king was exhausted, and the concubine He Liaosheng was born. In the end, Yu Ji killed herself with a sword while dancing in the shadows, martyred for love, the overlord embraced the beauty, wept for several lines, leaving behind a tragic song of the hero's end.
Bawang Bieji is a historical scene that is difficult to erase in the cultural memory of Chinese, and many literary and artistic works in later generations are based on this, opera and dance, painting and sculpture, and there are countless film and television works with the theme of it, and even a dish in culinary culture is named after it.
However, if we examine it carefully, the overlord Bieji may not be a poignant love story.
Many scholars in ancient times had reservations about Xiang Yu's "Song under the Fall", and Zhou Lianggong of the Qing Dynasty once questioned: When Xiang Yu was besieged under the siege, he was already embattled, the mountains and rivers were exhausted, and the situation was extremely critical, where was the leisure and mind to write poetry?
Even if it was done, then later Yu Ji committed suicide, Xiang Yu was defeated, and the few remaining retinues around him were killed one by one, and he finally killed himself in Wujiang, who recorded these poems?
History always has its strange mysteries and surprises, so we can't completely deny the authenticity of "Song of Xiaxia", because it is stylistically consistent with the poetry of the time, such as Liu Bang's "Song of the Great Wind" (which can definitely be Liu Bang's work). In contrast, Yu Ji's song is more questionable, because there is no such five-character poem in the literati works that can be examined at the time of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Moreover, as to whether Yu Ji killed herself or killed him, there is still something to be discussed, please see the record in the 128th volume of the Early Song Dynasty Taiping Huanyu Chronicle, "Haozhou Zhongli County": "Yu Ji's tomb is in the southern sixty miles of the county, and the height is six zhang, that is, Xiang Yu is defeated, and Ji Ji is buried here." ”
Under the premise that Yu Ji was killed instead of killing herself, if Yu Ji was afraid of being humiliated and let the overlord kill her to protect her virginity, then Yu Ji's death was poignant and not beautiful; if Xiang Yu did not want Yu Ji to be humiliated, and killed Yu Ji on his own, it would not be poignant, but tragic.
Moreover, whether Yu Ji truly loves the Overlord is still a question.
Later generations read Yu Ji's story, and were always sad that she was loyal to "eight thousand children returning to Han, living up to Jun'en is Chu waist", and touched by her obsession of "turning blue blood into riverside grass, flowers blooming more than cuckoo red", but ignoring that she was always with Xiang Yu like Uyama.
That is to say, she has seen and experienced what Xiang Yu has done with her own eyes. Then, we have to ask such a question: Xiang Yu slaughtered the city three times, killed prisoners twice, poisoned the living beings, and was about to be left behind for ten thousand years, if Yu Ji really loved him, why didn't she stand up to stop him, but instead didn't say a word and let him be abused?
If in history, the overlord Yu Ji did not sing and sing when he was trapped under the throne, if Yu Ji did not have true love for the overlord, if Yu Ji did not kill herself but died under the overlord sword, would the poignant beauty of the overlord Bieji in cultural memory be questionable, greatly discounted, or even gone?