Zhang Jiao was born in Julu (now Pingxiang, Hebei Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, he was the leader of the Yellow Scarf Army and the founder of Taiping Road. Because he got the Taiping Ching, handed down by Taoist Yu Ji and others, he took religious salvation as his own responsibility, organized the masses with some religious ideas and social and political thoughts, and preached the beginning of the establishment of Ning. In the first year of Zhong Ping, Zhang Jiao took the slogan "Heaven dies, Huang Tianli, aged in Jiazi, the world is all right" as his slogan, calling himself "General Heaven" and leading the masses to launch an uprising, which was called "The Yellow Scarf Uprising" in history. Soon Zhang Jiao died of illness, and the insurgents were quickly suppressed by the Han Dynasty. To put it bluntly, he was just a leader of peasant uprising, just like Chen Guang Uprising, Li Zicheng and others in history.

The Yellow Scarf Army is actually a group of poor peasant rebels.

His existence is a social and historical necessity, and there is no right or wrong. In the late feudal dynasty, corruption and incompetence made peasant uprising inevitable. He is just a man chosen by history. Even if there is no opening angle, others will rise up and rebel, thus overthrowing the decadent Eastern Han Dynasty.

Zhang Jiao was a native of China in the Eastern Han Dynasty (about the 2nd century AD) and the founder of Taiping Road, an early Taoist school. He and his two brothers, Zhang Bao and Sean, both believe in Taoism.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three brothers founded the organization Taiping Dao, which was mainly influenced by Taiping Jing and the early popular idea of "Huang Lao", and transformed this idea into their own teachings and widely publicized it to believers. The doctrine of Taiping Taoism advocates that there are ghosts and gods in the sky to monitor people's behavior, increase or decrease their life span according to the good and evil of people's behavior, and requires people to do more good deeds and less bad things.

After more than ten years' efforts, Taiping Road in Zhangjiao has developed to many parts of the country, and the number of believers has reached several hundred thousand. Zhang Jiao preached as a leader. According to historical records, he mainly relied on treating others to expand his influence. Zhang Jiao also called himself "the teacher of great virtue" and regarded himself as the forerunner of the public. He established an organization "Fang" that combines military and political affairs. According to the region of the country, there are 36 political parties, and the leaders of all parties call it "Qu Shuai", which has great influence among the people.

At that time, because of social corruption, political darkness and people's poverty, Zhang Jiao took advantage of the trend and put forward the slogan "Heaven will die, and the world will flourish at the age of 60" and launched the Yellow Scarf Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, Taiping Road basically disappeared.