Yellow Turban Rebellion

Yellow Turban Rebellion
Yellow Turban Rebellion
Traditional Chinese	黃巾之亂
Simplified Chinese	黄巾之乱
Literal meaning	"Yellow Turban Conflict"
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Huángjīn zhī luàn
IPA	[xwǎŋtɕín ʈʂɨ́ lwân]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Wòhnggān jī lyuhn
Jyutping	wong4 gan1 zi1 lyun6

Yellow Turban Rebellion
	Part of the wars at the end of the Han dynasty
	; Map showing the extent of the Yellow Turban Rebellion in China in 184 CE
Date	c.March 184–205 CE
Location	Various locations in China
Result	Rebellion suppressed, Han victory Han dynasty heavily weakened; Beginning of a state of turmoil in China;
Belligerents
Han dynasty	Yellow Turban Army
Commanders and leaders
Emperor Ling; He Jin; Huangfu Song; Lu Zhi; Zhu Jun	Zhang Jue †; Zhang Bao †; Zhang Liang †
Strength
350,000	2,000,000 (360,000 were initially followers of Zhang Jue)
Casualties and losses
	Unknown

The Yellow Turban Rebellion, alternatively translated as the Yellow Scarves Rebellion, was a peasant revolt during the late Eastern Han dynasty of ancient China. The uprising broke out in c. March 184 CE, during the reign of Emperor Ling. Although the main rebellion was suppressed by 185 CE, it took 21 years for full suppression of resistant areas and emerging rebellions by 205 CE.^[1] The weakening of the imperial court and the rising political influence of ultra-autonomous regional military-governors, who helped suppress the rebellion, eventually led to rampant warlord dominance and the resultant Three Kingdoms period.

The rebellion, which got its name from the color of the rebel headwear, marked an important point in the history of Taoism due to the rebel leaders' association with the then secret Taoist societies.^[4] The revolt was also used as the opening event in the 14th-century historical novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

^ ^a ^b Smitha, Frank E. "DYNASTIC RULE and the CHINESE (9 of 13)". Macrohistory and World Timeline. Retrieved 19 February 2015. By the year 205 (21 years after it had begun) the Yellow Turban Rebellion was over, and rule by the Han family was shattered and at its end.
^ Ropp, Paul S (10 June 2010). China in World History. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780199798766.
^ Michaud, Paul (1958). "The Yellow Turbans". Monumenta Serica. 17: 47–127. doi:10.1080/02549948.1958.11730973. ISSN 0254-9948. JSTOR 40725564.
^ Bowker, John (1997). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.

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[Smitha_2015-1] Smitha, Frank E. "DYNASTIC RULE and the CHINESE (9 of 13)". Macrohistory and World Timeline. Retrieved 19 February 2015. By the year 205 (21 years after it had begun) the Yellow Turban Rebellion was over, and rule by the Han family was shattered and at its end.

[2] Ropp, Paul S (10 June 2010). China in World History. Oxford University Press. p. 40. ISBN 9780199798766.

[casualties-3] Michaud, Paul (1958). "The Yellow Turbans". Monumenta Serica. 17: 47–127. doi:10.1080/02549948.1958.11730973. ISSN 0254-9948. JSTOR 40725564.

[5] Bowker, John (1997). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions.

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