The Yellow Scarf Uprising was a peasant war at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and one of the largest religious uprisings in the history of China. Began in Han Guang and seven years. At that time, the imperial court was corrupt, eunuchs and consorts were constantly fighting, border wars were constantly going on, the national situation was weakening day by day, and tax revenue was not reduced because of the national drought.

Desperate poor peasants, under the command of Zhang Jiao, a giant deer man, rose up in succession. With yellow turbans tied to their heads, they shouted the slogan "Heaven dies, Heaven should stand, and the world will do everything" and launched a fierce attack on bureaucratic landlords.

It also had a great influence on the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to quell the rebellion, all localities supported troops with self-respect. Although the uprising ended in failure, the situation of warlordism and the existence of the Eastern Han Dynasty was irreversible, and finally the situation of the three countries was formed.

Historical influence

The Yellow Scarf Uprising had a far-reaching impact on the political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to put down the war as soon as possible, the central government delegated the power of generals to local governments, which prevented the wave of the Yellow Scarf Uprising from spreading to the whole country and slowed down the crisis of the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

However, it caused the local government to despise the central government, and made ambitious generals or officials use the army to divide the place in the process of suppressing the Yellow Scarf Uprising, which opened the prelude to the warlord melee in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and laid a distant curse for the division of the three countries. Under the attack of peasant uprising, the decadent Eastern Han Dynasty existed in name only, and finally went to extinction.