From: Shi Ji Xiang Yu Ben Ji Hong Men Banquet by Sima Qian in Han Dynasty

Excerpts from the original text:

Wang Xiang said: "This is what Pei Gong Sajima and Cao Wushang said; Why else would the book be here? " Wang Xiang stayed with Pei Gong and drank on the same day. Wang Xianghe and Xiang Bo sit in the east, and Yafu sits in the south. Father, Fan Zeng also. Pei Gong sat in the north, while Sean waited in the west. Fan Zeng has many kings, three of which are shown in the jade slips she wears, while Wang Moran should not.

Explanation:

Wang Xiang said, "This is what Sa Ji Ma Cao Wushang of Pei Gong said. If not, how can I be so angry? " Wang Xiang left Liu Bang on the same day to drink with him. Wang Xianghe and Xiang Bo sit in the east, while Yapu sits in the south. The father is Fan Zeng. Liu Bang sat facing north, and Sean accompanied him facing west. Fan Zeng winked at Wang Xiang many times, and repeatedly raised his jade Jue to hint at Wang Xiang, but Wang Xiang was silent and unresponsive.

Extended data

After the demise of the Qin Dynasty (206 BC), the leaders of two anti-Qin armies, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, held a banquet in Hong Men on the outskirts of Xianyang, the capital of Qin Dynasty.

The full text is centered on the confession of Liu Bang's Xiang Ying camp, which is divided into three parts: before and after the camp. Beginning with Cao's informer, Xiang Yu decided to attack, ending with Xiang Yu being attacked and Cao being punished. The story unfolds layer by layer according to whether Xiang Yu attacked and whether Liu Bang could escape safely.

This article is good at depicting characters through important historical events and conflicts, and the characters are very personalized and typical. The author's attitude towards good, evil, virtue and unworthiness is very clear. He portrayed two different types of ruling figures with extremely profound and obvious love-hate brushstrokes.

Liu bang is a despicable, cunning and resourceful so-called successful person. Xiang Yu is a so-called failure hero who is generous, self-reliant and credulous. The author describes Liu Bang and Xiang Yu with the specific event and contradiction of Hongmen Banquet, and completes the typicality of biographical literary figures.

The author's achievements:

Sima Qian studied under Kong Anguo and Dong Zhongshu in his early years, roaming around, learning about customs and collecting rumors. As a first-time doctor, he served in the southwest. In the third year of Yuanfeng (108), he was appointed as the Taishiling, inherited his father's business and wrote history.

He created China's first biographical general history-Historical Records. This book is recognized as a model of China's history books. It records the history of more than 3,000 years from the legendary period of the Yellow Emperor to the first year of founding ceremony, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It is the first of the "twenty-five histories" and is praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, and Li Sao has no rhyme".