Huang Chao, a peasant rebel, surrounded Zhou Chen for nearly a year on the eve of his defeat, crushed the living by mechanization, and supplied his besieged troops with human flesh as rations to ensure the fighting capacity of his rebel army, creating an unprecedented record of cannibalism.

This is an appalling cannibalism record, the highest in China, and probably the highest in the world. According to history textbooks, Huang Chao was the leader of the peasant revolution, and the peasant uprising led by Huang Chao was an act of overthrowing feudal rule, which was of revolutionary and progressive significance. There is no doubt about it.

However, judging from the dichotomy advocated by Mao Zedong, it is not so easy to generalize and cover up all ugliness. But in the spirit of seeking truth from facts. Revolutionary leaders are far behind the notorious butchers in history in poisoning ordinary people who are not in the ruling class.

In a "Twenty-four History", only Huang Chao can describe the way of cannibalism by using the word "knocking the bone and sucking the marrow".

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The Positive Influence of Huang Chao Uprising

Most of the peasants who revolted in previous dynasties before the Tang Dynasty put forward slogans against feudal dynasties, but they did not explicitly demand political and economic equality of peasants. Until the end of the Tang Dynasty, with the further development of feudal relations of production and private ownership of land, and the deepening of class contradictions, Qiu Fu Uprising in eastern Zhejiang changed to Luoping, cast a balance, and established an egalitarian peasant regime.

It laid an indelible seed for the peasant uprising in the future.

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