Celebrity and Huai 46: Xiang Yu left his hometown to plant Huai.

Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu Dynasty, is a person with a particularly heavy hometown complex. He faced his hometown twice and witnessed the hero's success and failure. Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "those who get the Guanzhong will get the world". It is natural that Xiang Yu occupied Xianyang and made its capital here. However, he missed his hometown, "wealth does not return to his hometown, like a night trip", and finally chose Pengcheng, which is closest to his hometown. After the siege and farewell to my concubine, "my brothers and sisters in Jiangdong have pity on me, and I can't face it!" Xiang Yu, who failed, finally chose to commit suicide in Wujiang River. Beneath Xiang Yu's stubborn appearance, there is a pure and soft homesickness. In front of his hometown, he is like a simple child. When he got the certificate, he went home to report the good news. I didn't do well in the exam and I'm embarrassed to go home. He is also a particularly proud person, ashamed, showing the weight of his hometown in his mind.

Hometown can never go back, so from another perspective, what was Xiang Yu like when he left his hometown? When the immigrants under the pagoda tree in Hongdong, Ming Dynasty cried and shouted to go on the road, they always loved to break the branches of the pagoda tree to pin their nostalgia for their hometown. The difference of Xiang Yu is that he changed "fold" into "species". Plant a locust tree and determine the direction of home, just like flying a kite. No matter how high and far the kite flies, they pay close attention to it.

Sima Qian recorded in Records of the Historian Xiang Yu's Biography: Ji Xiang is the next prime minister and also a feather. The next stage, today's Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, lies between the ancient Yellow River and the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal. The old house is located in Wu Tong Lane in the urban area. It was named after Xiang Yu's family buried his afterbirth (placenta) under the tung tree when he was born. Xiang Yu's ancestors were nobles of Chu State, and he was a general of Chu State from generation to generation. When Chu was destroyed by Qin, Xiang Yu was only ten years old and was raised by his uncle Xiang Liang. Later, Xiang Liang killed someone and left his hometown with his uncle in order to avoid Wuzhong's revenge.

I don't know when this trip will come back. The locust tree planted by Xiang Yu has been waiting for more than 2200 years! The Yellow River burst several times, and the hometown on the old course of the Yellow River was flooded and leveled many times. Old Sophora japonica is like a donkey falling into a well, shaking and standing up in the face of the soil that buried it. The tree has been silted up for more than six meters, and its head still sticks out from the mud, just like Xiang Yu's courage to cross the rubicon. The tree head that broke free from the mud was once split in half by lightning, and now there are charred scars on the tree body, just like the tragic and solemn feeling that Xiang Yu will never drag out an ignoble existence. Nowadays, the head of the survived locust tree has grown to the height of a room, and the stout branches need five adults to hold, which is even more domineering and forever moving forward.

The seeds sown when Xiang Yu left home in those days have grown into trees on the male shore; Today's Sophora japonica flower is like a new seed, gradually expanding into a new tourist city. During the Kangxi period, the local magistrate set up a monument of "Wang Xiang's hometown"; During the Republic of China, Huai 'an Pavilion, Huai 'an Terrace, Yingfeng Pavilion and other buildings were built according to locust trees. Entering the new century, it has invested another 4 billion yuan to build Wang Xiang's hometown scenic spot. In the stone manger used by Xiang Yu, there was a tall stone horse tied to it. Behind the paulownia tree buried in Xiang Yu's afterbirth is the courtyard of his former residence, which was built several times deeper; There are also stone locks used by Xiang Yu for acrobatics and an eight-ton bronze tripod symbolizing strength in the yard. All this seems to go back in time and restore the scene when Xiang Yu left his hometown. Even if the whole tourist city is newly built, with the original one that has the closest relationship with Xiang Yu, everything will come alive, just like Xiang Yu has a horde and a military soul! No wonder the old pagoda tree was praised as "the first pagoda tree in the world" by an American botanist.

When I grow up, I will be you. The ancient locust planted by Xiang Yu himself became a tangible Xiang Yu, with his body temperature and soul. Under the hope and guidance of the old tree, travel-stained Xiang Yu finally returned to his hometown. Xiang Yu, who pulled the reins majestically at the entrance of the ancient city, was a hero even if he failed!

? Renzhi was written on the evening of February 20 17 19.