The Feast at Hong Gate, also known as the "Banquet at Hong Gate", "Hongmen Banquet", "Hongmen Feast" and other renditions, was a historical event that took place in 206 BC at the Hong Gate (鴻門) outside Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Dynasty. Its location in present-day China is roughly at Hongmenbao Village, Xinfeng Town, Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province. The main parties involved in the banquet were Liu Bang and Xiang Yu, two prominent leaders of insurgent forces who rebelled against the Qin Dynasty from 209 BC to 206 BC. The event was one of the highlights of the Chu–Han Contention, a power struggle for supremacy over China between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu that concluded with Xiang Yu's defeat and Liu Bang's founding of the Han Dynasty with him as its first emperor. The Feast at Hong Gate is later often memorialised in Chinese history, fiction and popular culture.
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