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佛祖歷代通載 4.49

佛祖歷代通載 4.49

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Classical Chinese

4.49

西楚霸王項羽(名藉下相人也。楚將項燕之孫。身長八尺。目有重瞳。勢可拔山力能舉鼎。吳中子弟皆憚之。秦二世元年。從季父項梁起江。東至三年滅秦。自號西楚。都彭城。立五年。漢會諸侯于垓下。大潰破之。追至烏江。自刎而死矣)。

Hegemon-King of Western Chu, Xiang Yu (named Ji, a native of Xiasheng; grandson of the Chu general Xiang Yan. He was eight feet tall, had double pupils in his eyes, had might capable of uprooting mountains and strength that could lift a bronze tripod. The youths of Wu all feared him. In the first year of the Second Emperor of Qin, he followed his paternal uncle Xiang Liang to rise in Jiangdong; by the third year he destroyed Qin, called himself Hegemon-King of Western Chu, and made his capital at Pengcheng. He reigned for five years. Han gathered the feudal lords at Gaixia, completely routing and shattering him. They pursued him to the Wu River, where he cut his own throat and died).

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