In the first peasant uprising, was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang a peasant?

When it comes to peasant uprisings in feudal society, most people will think of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's Dazexiang uprising, not only in history, but also in Sima Qian's "Records of History".

Chen Shengren, Yangcheng people also, word involved. Wu Guangzhi, Yang Xia Ren also, Zi Uncle. When Chen Shi was young, he tried to cultivate with others, quit farming on the ridge, and hated it for a long time.

This passage reflects that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are peasants, and to be precise, farmers are not counted, and the word "maid" reflects that the land they cultivate is not their own, they are just helpers, so that their identity is stone hammer, not even a peasant, right?

Is this really the case?

Of course not, if you read it carefully, you will find problems. In the first sentence of the opening chapter, Chen Sheng, actually had a word, during the Qin Dynasty, a person's surname, name, and character were all strictly stipulated, and a helper actually had a word, don't you think it is strange? One might wonder if the word might have been taken on its own when the uprising was successful. Then let's look at another example, Gao Zu, a native of Zhongyangli, Peifengyi, surnamed Liu, Zi ji.

Also from the "Records of History", their expression format has a slight difference, especially in the meaning of the table characters, after Liu Bang became emperor, his own words or ji, what is the meaning of translating them into modern Chinese? Liu Laosan's meaning, so in that era, it was not easy to take or change words for yourself.

This absolutely shows that Chen Sheng was born into an aristocrat, not an ordinary strongman, let alone a peasant or a class of helpers, and there is another proof that Chen Sheng was still a nobleman at the time of the uprising and not a downcast nobleman.

It is also recorded in the historical records that Qin II's position is not correct, and the throne should be passed to FuSu, which was definitely a top-secret message at that time, not to mention that the speed of information dissemination was slow, that is, now a provincial leader generally knows the situation of people's children? Not to mention that it was still the royal family at that time, which was a joke.

History does not clearly record which country Chen Sheng Wu Guang was before Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, but it is very likely that he was a Chu national, and at the beginning of the uprising, it is also said that Xiang Yan was a Chu general, had military merits, and loved people, and in his name came to revolt to call on everyone to rebel against the violent Qin, this information is a helper can know, if every peasant in China had such a skill, it is estimated that he would have ruled the world a long time ago.

Chen Sheng must have had a large number of old nobles supporting him at the time of the uprising, he had reliable sources, and in the process of the uprising, he could take out a veil as paper and cinnabar as a pen, which was not an ordinary person, even a small and powerful local landlord like Liu Bang could not do it.

The last point is the most important, the peasant revolt is not able to survive, find a way to live, either occupy the mountain as the king, or first rebel and wait for Zhao'an.

Look at Chen Sheng's and Wu Guang's uprising slogans, Da Chu Xing, Chen Sheng Wang, Fa Wu Dao, and Tyrannical Qin, this is a slogan that peasants can shout, shouldn't they be like Li Zhicheng and Hong Xiuquan, who are all in the field? Their slogans are too politically high.

Looking at the whole process of the uprising, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang knew how to shout slogans, and with the help of foreign pretexts, shouted out clever political slogans, killed officials and sacrificed flags, and correctly organized the army, so we can draw a conclusion that Chen Sheng was an uprising of the old nobles with an organized scale.