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Why did the Miao rebellion continue in the Ming and Qing Dynasties?
Miao uprising broke out in Guizhou and Xiangxi. This is an area where Miao people live in compact communities. Due to the cruel exploitation of Qing officials, the Miao people became increasingly poor and had to "return farmland" to pay their debts. "The harvest has just ended, and there is no food. The debt was not paid off, and they owed money to others. After a long period of mining, the fields have dried up. " Their land fell into the hands of the ruling class of the Qing Dynasty, and they were forced to farm in the alpine mountainous areas, leading a hard life of "firewood as a cotton-padded jacket and fern roots as a meal".

During the period of 1795, under the oppression of the Qing Dynasty, the Miao people in Tongren, Guizhou Province first launched an uprising, and the Miao people in Xiangxi also responded. The rebel army put forward the slogan of "expelling guests and returning to their hometown" and demanded to recover the occupied land. The Qing government mobilized troops to suppress it, and the rebels said, "The government has 10,000 soldiers, and I have 10,000 mountains. When it comes, I will go, and when it goes, I will come. " They used guerrilla tactics, took advantage of the dangerous terrain and the characteristics of their own mountain roads, and defeated the Qing army who came to suppress many times with shotguns, bows and arrows, swords and stones. The Qing government mobilized troops from seven provinces including Guizhou and Hunan for eleven years, and it was not until 1806 that the Miao uprising was suppressed.