Looking at the yellow calendar, there are still many people today who believe that in ancient times there were more believers, so that the ancient people had to look at the yellow calendar for doing anything big, and rebellion was no exception. Ancient rebellions had two golden hours, one in May and one in Leap August.
The number five has a special significance in ancient times, and China's first professional rebel Tiantuan Taiping Dao chose March 5 as the best moment for the uprising, because the three represent the three talents of heaven and earth, and the five represent the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth. When the Red Turban Army revolted, it happened to be the opposite, and Liu Futong specially chose the rebellion on may 3 of the lunar calendar (there is also a saying that it is very close to the Dragon Boat Festival, which can just take advantage of Qu Yuan's popularity to sacrifice his life for the country), and the meaning is similar to that of the Taiping Dao.
May was called the evil moon in ancient times, and men born on the fifth day of the first month of May were hated by the family as an ominous symbol (May shengyang, the son was born, the essence was hot, the parents were tired, the parents were unbearable, and they would suffer from it", Li Yu and Song Huizong were born on the fifth day of the first month of May). However, the rebellion in May was very auspicious, after the outbreak of the Red Turban Army Uprising, the Red Turban Army swept through the Yuan Empire like a volcanic eruption, and the Red Turban Army even burned the upper capital of the Yuan Dynasty, losing the core force of the Yuan Empire (the later rising Ru'nan King Chahan Timur and others were all township troops, not Mongol concubines).
In fact, there is a precedent for the success of the rebellion in May, that is, Li Yuan's father and son, Li Yuan's father and son imprisoned political enemies Wang Wei and Gao Junya on May 15, and on May 17, they beheaded Wang Wei and Gao Junya and then raised troops to establish the Tang Empire. May was also a good time for Zhu Yuanzhang to start a business, and in May of the thirteenth year of Zhengzheng (1353), the Chuzhou rebel army barely survived the encirclement of the Yuan army, and suffered heavy casualties and urgently needed to replenish troops, so Zhu Yuanzhang returned to his hometown to recruit more than 700 people and created his earliest team. In May of the fifteenth year of Zhizheng (1355), Zhu Yuanzhang, with Liao Yong'an, Yu Haitong and other Chaohu water troops, defeated the water division commanded by the Yuan Dynasty general Manzi Hague and officially began his own campaign to capture Nanjing.
May is auspicious, leap August is also the best moment of rebellion in the hearts of many civil society, and the legend of the slaughter of Tartars on August 15 is the best propaganda." The matter of killing Tartars on August 15 had little to do with Liu Bowen, who was a winner in life at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, and not only did not take the initiative to rebel, but also formed a team with the Literati of Zhejiang to suppress the rebellion. The August 15th rebellion in leap August is the most important date of rebellion of the White Lotus Sect and the Bagua Sect, which is considered by them to be the day of the "three-element robbery", on which the rebellion can achieve the effect of changing the world and changing the earth. From the fifteenth year of Emperor Mingwuzong (1520) to 1900, a total of 10 leap Augusts appeared, and there were 5 incidents of rebellion in leap August. There were two incidents in the Ming Dynasty, three in the Qing Dynasty, and the three rebellions in the Qing Dynasty can be said to be famous.
After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the law of the leap August rebellion was also clarified by the Manchu Officials. The wise Jiaqing Emperor simply interfered artificially with the Yellow Calendar, canceling the leap August of 1813 after observing the comet in Qin Tianjian and rearranging a leap February in 1814. This kind of ostrich behavior deceived the ordinary people, and could not deceive the professional rebel Bagua sect believers, the Bagua sect leader Lin Qing promulgated his own speculative yellow calendar within the congregation, still setting a leap August on the yellow calendar, and agreeing that the believers would revolt in the mid-autumn of leap August (the official calendar is September 15). The Manchu Qing's change of the yellow calendar did not delay the uprising, but made the rebel army make a big news of the archery of the palace.
The concept of rebellion in August was widely spread in the late Qing Dynasty, and even Liu Bowen became a tool for this concept, and Hong Xiuquan also used this date during the uprising, and Hong Xiuquan also publicized in August 1850 that there would be a great plague in the world after August of this year, when "there are fields that cannot be cultivated, and there are houses that no one lives in", and in August of this year, Shi Dakai and others were ready for armed struggle. The last group to make a fuss in August was the Boxers, who also preached that leap August was a catastrophe in heaven and earth, and only they could save China, but unfortunately it was the Eight-Nation Alliance that entered Beijing on August 15 of the solar calendar.
Even after liberation, The Consistent Road did not forget this stubble, on September 15, 1950, the US army landed at Inchon, and that day happened to be the fourth day of the first month of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, and the Consistent Road and other groups also believed that this was the heavens helping themselves, "The advantage is in me", they can change the sky and the ground, shouting "The Third World War is coming soon, the US Chiang Kai-shek Army is coming to Beijing, the Eighth Route Army is going to finish" and other slogans want believers to do it, and the result ...