The peasant revolt at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was called the Yellow Turban Army

In the middle and late Period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the government was completely manipulated by ten eunuchs such as Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, who were called the Ten Constant Attendants in history, who collected money everywhere and mutilated loyal subjects, making the government very corrupt and the people miserable, so there were some officials who were dissatisfied with them, such as Dou Wu, Chen Fan, and others, who demanded the removal of these eunuchs who had brought calamity to the country and the people, but they did not succeed, and they were also killed.

At that time, there was an official named Zhang Jian, who was very honest and upright, and the emperor wanted to grant amnesty to the world at this time, and zhang Cheng, the brother of Zhang Rang, the most powerful eunuch in the court at this time, learned of this news, and deliberately killed people, and was caught by Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian said that Zhang Chengming knew that the world was amnesty and broke the law, so he executed Zhang Cheng regardless of Zhang Rang's status, Zhang Rang heard about this matter, he sent people to arrest Zhang Jian, the common people knew that Zhang Jian was a good person, so they risked being killed (at that time, it was stipulated that those who secretly hid Zhang Jian should also be executed) or protected Zhang Jian everywhere , so that zhang jian finally escaped from the clutches of the devil.　　These eunuchs saw that many people opposed them, so they launched two party incidents, which caused many righteous gentlemen to be arrested and killed, including the famous Fan Huan, who was said to have tired his eighty-year-old mother after entering prison, and was very sad about this, but his mother advised him that this was the place for his death, and finally both mother and son were killed.　　At that time, there was a literati named Zhao Yi, who was very dissatisfied with this, and wrote a famous essay entitled "Thorn World Disease and Evil Endowment", which directly wrote out the dissatisfaction in his heart, which can be described as a popular population, which was passed down to future generations and was quite influential.　　However, the kings of the time, Emperor Huan of Han and Emperor Ling of Han, were resigned to these, and when they died, the warlord Dong Zhuo, who was stationed in Gansu, entered Luoyang, and those eunuchs were eventually killed, many people were also killed because they did not have beards, and Zhang Rang and other ten eunuchs who committed the most heinous crimes jumped into the Yellow River and died, which was also deserved.

At the same time, a large peasant uprising broke out, founded by the three brothers Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, taiping Dao, who revolted in 184 AD, called the Yellow Turban Army Uprising, the slogan is that the sky is dead, the yellow sky is standing, the age is in The jiazi, the world is auspicious. At that time, the war was urgent. According to the Book of Later Han, Gongsun Zhan was a former general of the Han Dynasty, who loved white horses, and had an elite cavalry composed of all white war horses, called "White Horse Yicong", who became famous for his bravery and heroism in the battles outside The Seychelles, and the Xiongnu called him "White Horse General". According to legend, at that time, the Yellow Turban Army withdrew to the south bank and waited in a strict position, facing off with Gongsun Zhan's officers and soldiers across the water. The "White Horse General" on the north bank tried to kill him with a single blow, but the war horses were afraid of the bloody water and wind, so they only lowered their heads and nibbled all the way to the east to eat the wild grass, but to the east was the wide waters called "White Deer Yuan" on the river, so they had to leave. So far, folk joke about it as "white horse east nibbling", meaning foodie, bag!

Although Zhang Jiao later died nine months later, the remaining Yellow Turban Army continued to struggle under the leadership of Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao, which lasted for more than thirty years, dealing a heavy blow to the rule of the Eastern Han Dynasty and promoting the development of history.