The love story of Yu Ji and Xiang Yu singing Chu Ge and shedding tears and others is reminiscent of people's anger, and when posterity talks about their love story, they always lament Xiang Yu's hero's shortness of breath, and at the same time sympathize with Yu Ji's suffering.
In 203 BC, Xiang Yu was faced with defeat, and had to say goodbye to BMW and beauty, and sang a heroic lament to Yu Ji, who did not want to involve Xiang Yu and chose to kill himself.
In fact, Yu Ji could learn from Wei Wangbao's wife Bo Ji who chose not to die, and after Liu Bang destroyed Wei, he did not execute The wives and concubines of King Wei, but brought them back to Guanzhong, and this Bo Ji later gave birth to the famous Han Wendi in history.
As we all know, Liu Bang is notoriously greedy for money and lustful, and Xiang Yu's adviser Fan Zeng once commented that Liu Bang was both greedy for money and lustful, and when Liu Bang invaded Xiang Yu's old lair Pengcheng, he was busy collecting beautiful women and forgetting the task of receiving his family.
So why would Yu Ji rather die than fall into the hands of Liu Bang?
Stills of Yu Ji and Xiang Yu
The legendary love story of Overlord and Yu Ji
The history books record very little of Yu Ji's deeds, such as her date of birth, life, place of origin and how she came to Xiang Yu's side, whether it was Xiang Yu's wife or concubine, the history books do not record, but we can find some clues, Chen Ping once worked under Xiang Yu, he said that Xiang Yu did not believe anyone, they believed that they Were xiang clan and his wife's brother, Xiang Yu did not have a general with the surname Yu under him, so it seems that Yu Ji should be Xiang Yu's concubine.
Xiang Yu and Yu Ji have a vigorous love story, they are like a couple in love, according to legend, after Xiang Yu entered the customs, Zhang Liang let people sing: "Rich and noble do not return to their hometown, such as clothes and brocade night walking, who knows", which means that the rich and noble are developed, do not return to their hometown to show the pendulum, what does it mean?
Xiang Yu fell on Zhang Liang's pawn and returned home with a heart and mind.
At this time, Yu Ji also pulled Xiang Yu and asked him to return to his hometown in Jiangsu, after all, his hometown was more suitable for life. Xiang Yu agreed to Yu Ji, gave up the land of Guanzhong, and was willing to return to Pengcheng with Yu Ji to have a pair of immortal couples. After the outbreak of the Chu-Han War, Yu Ji and Xiang Yu were inseparable, no matter how critical the situation was, Yu Ji always did not abandon it.
Yu Ji stills
The Overlord shed tears to bid farewell to Yu Ji
In the second half of 203 BC, Xiang Yu was already running out of soldiers and food, and Han Xin had already annihilated the princely states north of the Yellow River, and the whole situation was not in his favor, and his only chip at this time was to have Liu Bang's family members hostage.
Xiang Yu reluctantly agreed to Liu Bang's proposal, and when Xiang Yu led his troops back to the east, Liu Bang rebelled and tore up the contract to pursue Xiang Yu.
In January 202 BC, all the Han armies gathered under the Chu army to fight a decisive battle, Xiang Yu was outnumbered, the soldiers were defeated and retreated to the camp under the Chu, and in the middle of the night, the Han army sang chu songs, Xiang Yu heard the embattled songs, and felt that his territory was all occupied by Liu Bang, otherwise how could there be so many Chu troops in the Han army? Xiang Yu decided to break through and escape.
Xiang Yu stills
Before the breakthrough, Xiang Yu faced a dilemma, whether he would break through with Yu Ji or not, his own breakthrough and escape were uncertain, if he took Yu Ji, how to protect her?
It is well known that Xiang Yu is superb in riding, when he is fast on horseback, even the riders around him can't keep up, not to mention a weak woman in her twenties, Xiang Yu and Yu Ji to escape from her peers is the next strategy, but what can you do without her?
Xiang Yu, who was embarrassed, repeatedly sang "Song of Xiaxia" to Yu Ji, the gist of the song was that I could pull up the mountain, the qi could be overwhelmed, and now the luck was not good, even the horse could not run, Yu Ji Ah Yu Ji, I don't know what to do with you. Xiang Yu cried a lot after singing, and moved everyone around him to cry.
After yu Ji listened, she and a song: "The Han soldiers have been slightly, the four squares of Chu are singing, the king is exhausted, and the concubine He Liaosheng." After singing, Yu Ji drew her sword and killed herself. However, yu Jihe's song is from the "Spring and Autumn of the Chu Han Dynasty", and the Zhengshi "Book of Han" and "Shi Ji" are not recorded.
Why would Yu Ji rather die than enter the Han Palace?
Yu Ji was faced with embattled singing and chose an extreme way to end her life, in addition to not wanting to drag Xiang Yu down and let him break through without worries, there was also an important reason that she did not want to fall into the hands of Liu Bang, and Yu Ji's reluctance to enter the Han Palace was closely related to her personality. We can compare her to Lü Hou.
Yu Ji and Lü Hou belonged to different types of women, Lü Hou was a career woman, Lü Hou was a typical virtuous wife and mother when he first married Liu Bang, Liu Bang was idle all day and did not like to do farm work, all lü hou took his children to work in the fields, Liu Bang caused trouble everywhere, Lü Hou also went to prison for him, after the outbreak of the Chu-Han War, Lü Hou was captured by Xiang Yu.
Lü Hou looked forward to Liu Bang every day to save her from the sea of suffering, but what she was waiting for was a merciless return.
When Liu Bang and Xiang Yu fought at Guangwu Mountain, Xiang Yu threatened Liu Bang with Lü Hou's life in order to force Liu Bang to fight or surrender, but Liu Bang abandoned his wife's life and death, which made Lü Hou chill, and since then Lü Hou decided to rely on herself, take the fate into her own hands, and she wants to strengthen herself.
After Lü Hou returned to Liu Bang's side, he regarded love very much, Liu Bang was just a political partner in her mind, he tried his best to assist Liu Bang to seize the world, but also for his son, only if her husband became emperor, her son had the opportunity to take the throne, after Liu Bang ascended the throne, Lü Hou also tried her best to help her husband maintain the regime, so the relationship between Lü Hou and Liu Bang was more of a political partner, and Lü Hou was a political speculator at this time.
Lu Hou stills
However, Yu Ji is exactly the opposite of Lü Hou, Yu Ji is completely a home-based woman, in her world, love is more important than glory and wealth, as long as there is Xiang Yu around, as long as Xiang Yu treats her well, other things are not important, she can not be prosperous and rich, even do not want life, losing Xiang Yu for her, is equivalent to losing everything.
It is precisely because Yu Ji's little bird is dependent on people, disregarding the overall situation, and destroying many major events of Xiang Yu, such as her exhortation to Xiang Yu to abandon Guanzhong, which is the most suitable place to build the capital.
For example, in the end, the soldiers were trapped, Xiang Yu had no confidence in fighting at this time, but she poured cold water on Xiang Yu's eyes, Xiang Yu still had 100,000 troops in his hands at this time, and she had not yet been defeated, so she began to sing an elegy. Yu Ji's self-sacrifice will only hit Xiang Yu's self-confidence even more and bring Xiang Yu into a desperate situation, Xiang Yu saw that his love Ji had killed himself, what was the meaning of living in the world, so he had no confidence in an instant, and he didn't want to live in the world.
Yu Ji's story tells us how important it is to reverse business, how can we face adversity calmly, and how can we achieve a career, so Yu Ji will never become Empress Lü.
If after changing Lü, she would only encourage Xiang Yu, we still have 100,000 troops in hand, don't be afraid of Liu Bang, didn't you use 50,000 troops to crush the main force of the Qin army with 400,000? In the Battle of Pengcheng, didn't you only use 30,000 troops to beat Liu Bang's 560,000 troops to the ground, even if you can't win this time, keep the green mountains here, not afraid of no fire, we can make a comeback.
At this time, Yu Ji was full of thoughts that since she could not be born on the same day as Xiang Yu in the same month of the same year, but she wanted to die on the same day of the same month of the same year, she also wanted to be a pair of immortals in heaven and earth.
Therefore, Yu Ji's weak little woman image could not choose to follow Liu Bang, and in her heart Xiang Yu was her only one.
The love tragedy staged by Xiang Yu and Yu Ji has left a touching love story for posterity, although Xiang Yu was defeated, he became the "god of love" in the minds of women, which is still missed.