From Qin Shihuang’s unification of the world and the establishment of the Qin Empire to the Revolution of 1911 that overthrew the Qing Dynasty, in the history of feudal society for more than 2,000 years, with the title of peasant, peasant uprisings gradually began to emerge to fight for their destiny. , no dynasty can be spared. Of course, this is also a force that cannot be ignored in promoting social progress. The wheel of history rolls forward in this struggle between spears and shields.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the late Qin Dynasty kicked off a large-scale peasant uprising in Chinese history in Daze Township, setting a benchmark for peasant uprisings in subsequent dynasties with their lives and revolutionary initiative.
After that, the Green Forest and Red Eyebrow Peasant Uprisings in the Western Han Dynasty, the Yellow Turban Uprising in the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Du Tao, Sun En, and Lu Xun uprisings in the Jin Dynasty, the Zhao Guang Uprising, the Gai Wu Uprising, and the Liuhanba in the Southern and Northern Dynasties Ling Uprising, Wagang Uprising and Dou Jiande Uprising in Sui Dynasty.
Peasant uprisings in the prosperous Tang Dynasty came one after another. The Xiyuan People's Uprising in the middle period, followed by the peasant uprisings of Yuan Chao, Fang Qing, Chen Zhuang, Qiu Fu, Pang Xun, Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao, etc. came one after another. Wave.
The farmers of the Song Dynasty did not admit defeat. Wang Xiaobo, Li Shun, Song Jiang, Fangla uprising, the Eight-Character Army resisted the Jin Dynasty, the Red Turban Army uprising against the Jin Dynasty, as well as Shao Xing, Zhong Xiang, Yang Yao, Wei Sheng, etc. One after another.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Shouhui, Xu Futong...the overwhelming Red Scarf Army finally pushed the peasant uprising in China's feudal society to its climax. Zhu Yuanzhang "digging holes deeply and accumulating grain widely", "slowly called The king's cowherd boy and poor monk finally sat on the emperor's throne and founded the Ming Empire.
The Qing Dynasty, the last feudal dynasty in China, gradually lost its vitality under the continuous destruction of the White Lotus Sect, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and others.
The Ming Dynasty, which won the world through peasant uprisings, was of course indispensable for its imitators, and it was the peasant uprising led by Chuang Wang Li Zicheng that directly hanged the Ming Dynasty on the crooked neck tree in Meishan. Therefore, there were not only peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty, but almost throughout the entire dynasty. There were also famous peasant uprisings that were the longest, largest, most strenuous, and had the most profound impact on future generations in ancient Chinese history. The following will explain to you one by one the three stages of the Ming Dynasty peasant uprising.
After Zhu Yuanzhang won the throne, the reality in the country was not peaceful, and there were many careerists who wanted to seize the fruits of revolutionary victory. Therefore, the early Ming Dynasty was a period of outbreak of peasant uprisings.
In 1370, more than 100,000 mountain people rebelled in Yangshan County, Guangxi, Chen Tong in Quanzhou, Fujian, and Sun Gupu in Qingzhou, Shandong gathered a crowd to rebel.
In 1381, Cao Zhen and Su Wenqing in Guangzhou prepared 1,800 warships to rebel, and Jiang Zhixian, a citizen of Fu'an County, Fujian, gathered 8,000 people to rebel.
A year later, Guangdong annihilated Wang's rebellion; in 1385, Huguang annihilated Wang Wu'er and rebelled again.
In 1389, tens of thousands of people from Xia San in Ganzhou, Jiangxi rebelled; in 1395, tens of thousands of Yao and Zhuang people in Guangxi rebelled; in 1397, Gao Fuxing and others in Mian County, Shaanxi rebelled.
When Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was in power (1420), the Bailian sect of Tang Saier in Qingzhou, Shandong rebelled.
During the reigns of Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Qizhen and Emperor Zhu Qiyu of the Ming Dynasty, Zhejiang Ye Zongliu and Fujian tenant farmer Deng Maoqi rebelled. Later, Liu Tong and Li Yuan organized a large-scale rebellion among the land reclamation refugees in the Jingxiang Mountains of Hubei.
During the reign of Emperor Wuzong Zhu Houzhao of the Ming Dynasty, there were Liu Liu Liu Qi uprisings in Hebei, Wang Yuwu in Fuzhou in Jiangxi, Wang Chenger in Raozhou, Luo Guangquan in Ruizhou, He Jiqin in Ganzhou, and uprisings in Fujian, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Guangxi. They also swarmed up.