What are the stories in Historical Records?

The story of the Hongmen Banquet in Historical Records, returning to Zhao in one piece, burning the boat, referring to a deer as a horse, an armchair strategist and so on.

1, hongmen banquet. Refers to the banquet held in Hongmen, a suburb of Xianyang, the capital of Qin Dynasty, in 206 BC. Participants included two anti-Qin Jun leaders, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang.

2. Go back to Zhao. This means that Lin Xiangru brought the flawless jade back to Zhao from Qin in good condition, which is a metaphor for returning it to its original owner.

3. burn your bridges. From the Battle of Julu at the end of Qin Dynasty. In order to avenge his uncle Xiang Liang, Xiang Yu led twenty thousand chosen men to attack Zhang Han. Before crossing the river, the soldiers were ordered to break the kettle and cook. After crossing the river, they dug a sunken ship and brought only three days' dry food.

4. Call a deer a horse. This idiom comes from Historical Records of Qin Shihuang. It is said that Zhao Gao tried to usurp power. In order to test which ministers in the imperial court obeyed his wishes, he specially gave Qin Ershi a deer and said it was a horse.

5. talk on paper. This is a China idiom, which means an armchair strategist. Metaphor is empty talk, which can't solve practical problems.

Historical Records is a biographical history book written by Sima Qian, a historian of the Western Han Dynasty. It is the first biographical general history in the history of China, recording the history of four years and more than 3,000 years from the legendary Huangdi era to Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty.

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