At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the "Red Turban Army Uprising" - Liu Futong and Han Shantong ignited the fire of rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty

In 1348 AD, the government of the Yuan Shun Emperor had reached an irredeemable point, political corruption coupled with successive years of natural disasters, the people really could not survive, but in such a situation, the large landlords and powerful people of the Yuan Dynasty were still constantly exploiting the people.

In the north of the folk spread a kind of White Lotus Religion, Hebei Luancheng people Han Shantong did not believe in this religion, seeing that the people of the world are miserable, Han Shantong traveled around to publicize to people that Maitreya is going to be born, Maitreya is a bodhisattva who saves the suffering and saves the suffering, many hungry people began to accept this doctrine with good wishes, and soon began to spread in places such as the Yellow River and Jianghuai.

Liu Futong, the first person in the Fuyang circle in Anhui Province, met Han Shantong by chance, and the two soon became friends, and under the persuasion of Han Shantong, Liu Futong and Han Shantong secretly plotted a major event.

Seeing the dense crowd of people on the banks of the Yellow River, Han Shantong thought that as long as he found a slogan, these ant-like people would definitely follow him to overthrow the officials who were squeezing them. The reason why Han Shantong has this self-confidence is because these people are exhausted, starving or tortured to death every day, and every moment there are people who fall, rather than being tortured to death at any time, he believes that as long as he gives an order, these people will definitely follow him.

I don't know when it began, a folk song began to circulate among the people who ruled the river: "The stone man has one eye, provoking the yellow river in the world to rebel", at first everyone did not know what this folk song meant, and then one day someone finally dug out a stone figure in the mud and sand of the Yellow River, this figure only has one eye between the two eyebrows, and someone in the crowd shouted: "Brothers, isn't this stone man what we often hear in the folk songs?" The world is going to change, and we are going to turn over. So the people were in a commotion, and soon they were all quiet again, at which time another person stood up and shouted: "This brother surnamed Han is the eighth grandson of Emperor Huizong of the Great Song Dynasty, and the brother surnamed Liu next to him is a descendant of Liu Guangshi, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, so we will follow them to work." ”

On May 3, 1351 (lunar calendar), Han Shantong and Liu Futong gathered three thousand people in Yingshang (present-day Anhui) to kill black cattle and white horses, and to start an uprising in heaven and earth, and their banner was "Three thousand tigers, straight to the land of Youyan; the dragon flew ninety-five, reopening the heavens of the Great Song Dynasty.".

At the beginning of the uprising, Han Shantong and Liu Futong called for tens of thousands of people, and when they were preparing to choose a date, due to leaks, the officials and troops sent troops to surround Han Shantong's peasant rebels, and during the breakthrough, Han Shantong died of being slashed by officers and soldiers.