You can wear a sword when you grow up, but you are afraid of your ears.

Although you are tall and like to carry a sword, you are actually a coward.

I. Original text

In the Huaiyin tragedy, a teenager insulted the letter and said, "When you grow up, you should wear a sword, but you are afraid of your ears." The humiliation of the people said, "faith can die and stab me;" Can't die, come out from me. " So the letter depends on it, it squats, squats (like crawling). Everyone in the city laughed at the letter and thought it was timid.

Second, translation.

A young man among the butchers in Huaiyin bullied Han Xin and said, "Although you are tall and like to carry a sword, you are actually a coward." He insulted him in public and said, "If you can kill me, stab me with your sword." If you can't kill me, climb under my crotch. "So Han Xin stared at him for a long time, bent down, fell on the ground and crawled between his legs. People all over the street laughed at Han Xin and thought he was timid.

Third, the source

Excerpted from Historical Records Biography of Huaiyin Hou.

Extended data

First, the creative background

Sima Qian's stepfather was Taishi Gong in the third year of Yuanfeng (BC 108), and he began to write Taishi Gong Shu (hereinafter referred to as Historical Records) in the first year of Shu Tai (BC 104).

Later, he was arrested and imprisoned for defending Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty for the defeat and surrender of Li Ling, and was convicted of corruption, which caused great physical and mental trauma. After he was released from prison, he worked as a secretary and continued to finish his history books with humiliation and enthusiasm. In about two years (9 1 year ago), the book was finally compiled and revised.

Second, the appreciation of works

The unique narrative art of Historical Records pays great attention to the deeper exploration of the causal relationship of events, synthesizes various historical books of the previous generation, forms a unified statement, and describes all historical times before the middle of the Western Han Dynasty with twelve biographies and ten tables as the representatives vertically, and eight biographies, thirty biographies and seventy biographies as the representatives horizontally, leading all classes, nationalities, fields and industries, forming a comfortable structure criss-crossing.

In addition, Historical Records also has many unique features in terms of composition, sentence patterns and words, which is unique and unconventional, and produces unique effects with its novelty and variety.

Three. Brief introduction of the author

Sima Qian (former 145-? ) was born in xia yang (now south of Hancheng, Shaanxi). Historians and essayists in the Western Han Dynasty. Sima Tan's son, Ren Taishiling, was imprisoned for defending Li Ling's defeat and surrender, and later served as the secretariat. He worked hard to complete the historical records he wrote, and was called Shi Qian, Tai Shigong and the father of history by the later Buddha.

Sima Qian created China's first biographical style and general history book with the historical knowledge of "studying the relationship between man and nature, connecting the changes of ancient and modern times", which was recognized as the model of China's history books and the first of the "Twenty-five History", and was praised by Lu Xun as "a historian's swan song, leaving Sao without rhyme".

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