Also called: Zhu Quanzhong, Emperor Taizu of Later Liang
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
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.
In 907 the military governor Zhu Wen ended the Tang and founded the Later Liang. Until 960 five dynasties followed one another in the north while ten kingdoms rose in the south and elsewhere.
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
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
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