Life is a hero, and death is a hero. I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross Jiangdong.
When I first heard about Xiang Yu's deeds when I was a child, I admired him very much. What a magnificent and heroic "mountain-pulling power"! Today I pay attention to the dispute between Chu and Han, and I feel something in my heart.
During the Civil War, he traveled all his life, winning more than losing. When he was under siege, in the last battle, he said that the sky was falling and he had the possibility of winning. If his heart is more cruel than Liu Bang's, he can be good at employing people and be a man, and with his own advantages, who is his opponent? Liu bang had almost nothing but his best friends, but it was those best friends who helped him push Xiang Yu to the wall. It was that best friend who helped him build a great dynasty. Liu bang wants to have no life experience and wants to learn instead of learning. He just made a fortune from an ordinary person. In troubled times, he gambled with courage and won with the trend. If he doesn't have people like Sean, Han Xin and Chen Ping around him, he will at least.
However, Xiang Yu has a soft nature of women and a headstrong heart. He didn't listen to the loyal minister, but Liu Bang left the heart of the monarch and the minister in a planned way. Xiang Yu was not cruel, but he was not cruel to the end, so Liu Bang seized his weakness, gambled on it and finally won. Later generations said that Xiang Yu was a hero and Liu Bang was a villain. Morally speaking, Xiang Yu died gloriously and Liu Bang survived. But from the perspective of real politics, Liu Bang is the winner and Xiang Yu is just the loser. Reality ignores others and only cares about success or failure. Xiang Yu's personality charm, especially when he committed suicide in Wujiang River, reached the extreme, but I think a real hero can bend and stretch, and there is nothing shameful about failure. Start all over again and make a comeback. This is a big deal! Du Fu said, "There are many talented people in Jiangdong, and it is unknown that they will make a comeback." But he committed suicide and died frankly, without any nostalgia, just feeling ashamed of his elders in Jiangdong.
In his life, the only gentleness may be Yu Ji. The beautiful woman who was with him from beginning to end died before him. The only tenderness is gone, so what's the point of living? His love for children turned into a hero's short breath.