When the water level falls during the dry season in Wan County, site of the Yangtze River's Three Gorges, it exposes 16 or 17 vertebrae of a skeleton. Unknowing their true origin, local people gave them the name Hsiang Yu the Conqueror's Whip, believing that this is where the last emperor of Chu cast down his whip and cut his neck, collapsing into the river.
位於長江三峽的浣縣，當枯水季節潮水低落時，岩壁上自古以來就清清楚楚地嵌著十六、七節巨大的脊椎骨骼，當地人不知其為何物，世世代代一貫稱之「霸王鞭」，認為那是西楚霸王項羽擲鞭斷江的遺跡。