During the reign of Emperor Zongzong at the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was a family in Chiqiang Village, Gonggu County, Caozhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, whose head of the household was surnamed Huang Zongdan, who had been a salt merchant for generations, and the family was well-off, but there was no son in the ointment. In order to seek a son, Huang Zongdan did a lot of good deeds.
When Huang Zongdan was forty-five years old, his wife Tian Shi was finally pregnant, which made Huang Zongdan very happy. In October, the pregnancy expired, and indeed gave birth to a son, so he named it Huang Chao, the word Jutian.
Huang Chao was born with two rows of plate teeth, a horizontal eyebrow, and a black dot under the nose, like a nose birth, the palm of the left hand has a Bagua-shaped birthmark, and the palm of the right hand has a Big Dipper seven-star birthmark. The fortune teller looked at it and said that this was called the Seven Stars Bagua Palm, and this son must not be an ordinary person when he grew up.
Huang Zongdan was very happy to hear this, and invited the heir of the famous teacher to teach Huang Chao, and by the time Huang Chao was eighteen years old, he had grown too tall, his arms were wide for three stops, his face was like gold paper, his literary talent and martial strategy were very good, and he used to make a tiger head lose his door gun in his palm, and there were few opponents.
At this time, Emperor Li of Tang favored Tian Lingzi, the chancellor, and the government was chaotic, and the people were not happy. Officials forced the people to rebel, and rebels rose up. Among them, the most famous were Wang Xianzhi of Cao Prefecture and Shang Junchang of Puzhou.
It is said that this year is also the year of the dragon and the tiger, and the two subjects of culture and martial arts are opened at the same time. Since Tian Lingzi's younger son Tian Biao had learned several times to box and knew the kung fu of a three-legged cat, the old thief Tian Lingzi also wanted to take this opportunity to let his son take a wu zhuangyuan as a pawn.
In the early morning of this day, Tian Lingzi sent out a class to ask Emperor Tang to open a field of literature and martial arts in order to select the warriors of the tianxia people and curry favor with the thieves. Emperor Tang nodded in approval and immediately appointed Tian Lingzi as the chief examiner.
The next day, Tian Lingzi ordered someone to make a list of recruits and announce it to the whole country. All the people in the world rushed to Chang'an, wanting to gain a meritorious name through the imperial examination, get ahead, and the Guangzong Yaozu, Huang Chao was naturally among them.