Zi Ying is the object to be overthrown by Qin Sanshi, Liu Bang and Xiang Yu.

Chu Huaiwang, whose name was Xiong Xin, was the grandson of Xiong Huai of Chu Huaiwang at the end of the Warring States Period.

In the summer and June of Qin Ershi's second year (208 BC), Xiang Liang, the leader of Chu's anti-Qin rebel army, became king, still known as "Chu Huaiwang".

After the demise of the Qin Dynasty, in February of the first year of the Han Dynasty (206 BC), Xiang Yu honored him as the righteous emperor; In April, Xiang Yu established himself as the overlord of Western Chu, enfeoffed 18 vassal, made Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu) its capital, and forced Yidi to move its capital to Chenxian (now Chenzhou, Hunan).

In October of the second year of the Han Dynasty (205 BC), Xiang Yu ordered the king of Jiujiang to send troops to kill him.