This is the slogan used by the yellow turban insurrectionary army that broke out during the reign of Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty. "Tian" refers to the Han Dynasty, when the clothes of officials and troops were mainly cyan. "Yellow Heaven" refers to the Yellow Scarf Uprising Army.
In A.D. 184, Zhang Jiao founded "Taiping Road" to organize hundreds of thousands of peasants into 36 "phalanxes". Propaganda "Heaven dies, Huang Tianli; Years old in Jiazi, the world is good. " Zhang Jiao and his disciples secretly agreed that on March 5, the year of Jiazi (A.D. 184), all localities would revolt at the same time. Tang Zhou, a traitor, rebelled in February of that year because of his informer.
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Uprising process
1, Zhang Jiao founded "Taiping Road" and used it to organize hundreds of thousands of peasants into 36 "phalanxes". Propaganda "Heaven dies, Huang Tianli; Years old in Jiazi, the world is good. " Zhang Jiao and his disciples secretly agreed that on March 5, the year of Jiazi (A.D. 184), all localities would revolt at the same time. The uprising was advanced in February of that year because of the traitor's informer.
2. The uprising quickly occupied many counties and counties in Hebei, the north and south of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River valley, and the people revolted in response. The rebels surrounded Luoyang and defeated the officials of the Eastern Han Dynasty many times. The insurgents wore yellow headscarves, so they were called the "Yellow Scarf Army".
3. The rebel army defeated the enemy's attack many times, but unfortunately, Zhang Jiao died of illness. After several months of fighting, the main force of the Yellow Scarf Army failed, but the local insurgents still persisted in fighting for more than 30 years. Under the attack of the Yellow Scarf Uprising, the Eastern Han regime collapsed.