PersonAD 884
Huang Chao
Leader of the late-Tang peasant rebellion that bears his name; a salt smuggler, he took Chang’an in 880 and proclaimed the state of Qi, but was defeated and died in 884
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The peasant revolt launched in 875 by the salt smuggler Huang Chao swept across China; it took Chang’an in 880 and was put down in 884, but it effectively destroyed the Tang.
People who appear alongside
- Zhu WenAD 852 – AD 912
Founder of the Later Liang (r. 907–912); a former lieutenant of Huang Chao who went over to Tang and became a military governor, he ended the Tang in 907. Given the name Zhu Quanzhong by the Tang
- Choe Chi-wonAD 857
Scholar of head-rank six who passed the Tang examination for foreigners, won fame with his proclamation against Huang Chao, presented ten-odd reform proposals to Queen Jinseong and left the Gyewon pilgyeong
Themes this person appears in
- Sui, Tang and the East Asian WorldAD 317 – AD 979
From the divided Southern and Northern Dynasties and the Gupta age through the Sui and Tang empires to the founding of the Song — the age when an East Asian world sharing law codes, Buddhism, Confucianism and Chinese characters took shape, and Korea and Japan built their states on its model