Sui and Tang · Rebel

Huang Chao 黃巢

Attested AD 874 - AD 907

Passages
46
Chapters
20
Histories
4

Overview

The translated histories identify Huang Chao as a bandit, rebel, ruler, and warlord. This record brings together 46 passages from 20 chapters across 4 histories, with names, dates, relationships, offices, and events preserved as source-backed claims.

Names

TypeEnglishChinesePinyin
Personal Huang Chao 黃巢 Huang Chao
Given Chao 巢 Cháo
Surname Huang 黃 Huáng
Personal name Huang Chao 黃巢 Huang Chao
Personal Huang Chao 黃巢
Personal Huang Chao 黃巢 Huáng Cháo
Personal name Huang Chao 黃巢 Huáng Cháo
Epithet the bandit Chao 賊巢
Given 巢 Chao
Surname 黃 Huang

Identity

Historicity
Historical
Identification
Named
Sex
Male

Roles

  • Bandit
  • Rebel
  • Ruler
  • Warlord

Life and dates

Attested activity

  • Source Date: Text: 中和二年冬 · Regnal Year: 2 · Western Year: AD 882
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0013
  • Source Date: Text: AD 875-884 · Western Year: AD 875
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:065:s0076
  • Source Date: Text: around Zhonghe 3 · Western Year: AD 883
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:023:s0093, xinwudaishi:023:s0098
  • Source Date: Text: 中和二年 · Western Year: AD 882
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:062:s0005
  • Source Date: Text: 中和元年 · Western Year: AD 881
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:062:s0025
  • Source Date: Text: 中和四年 · Western Year: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:016:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 乾符五年 · Western Year: AD 878
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:184:s0190, xintangshu:184:s0196
  • Source Date: Text: 乾符初 · Western Interval: Start: AD 874 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · xintangshu:052:s0252, xintangshu:052:s0250
  • Source Date: Text: 入黃巢軍作賊 · Western Interval: Start: AD 875 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:011:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 唐乾符中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 874 · End: AD 879
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:016:s0099
  • Source Date: Text: 唐廣明中 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:024:s0078
  • Source Date: Text: 唐末 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 907
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:041:s0045
  • Source Date: Text: 天下饑荒，入黃巢作賊 · Western Interval: Start: AD 875 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:012:s0010
  • Source Date: Text: 廣明 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:007:s0137
  • Source Date: Text: 廣明初 · Western Year: AD 880
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:020:s0003
  • Source Date: Text: 廣明至中和 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 884
    Explicit · jiutangshu:181:s0091
  • Source Date: Text: 賊巢之亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 878 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · jiutangshu:185:s0208
  • Source Date: Text: 黃巢之亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 875 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:044:s0034
  • Source Date: Text: 黃巢之餘 · Western Interval: Start: AD 875 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:145:s0055
  • Source Date: Text: 黃巢大亂 · Western Interval: Start: AD 875 · End: AD 884
    Explicit · jiuwudaishi:146:s0005
  • Source Date: Text: 黃巢犯長安 · Western Year: AD 880
    Explicit event contextual date · xinwudaishi:035:s0045
  • Source Date: Text: 黃巢犯闕 · Western Interval: Start: AD 880 · End: AD 881
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:050:s0011
  • Source Date: Text: 黃巢離亂之餘 · Western Interval: Start: AD 875 · End: AD 884
    Explicit event contextual date · jiuwudaishi:140:s0018

Career and standing

Places and affiliations

Works and attributed material

  • Kind: memorial · Role: author · Summary: requested appointment as military governor of Tianping · Provenance: Mode: narrative-attribution · Speaker Person Id: Huang Chao (黃巢)
    Explicit · xintangshu:184:s0196

Events and relationships

Source notes

References in the histories

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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 181Volume 177 Biographies 127: Cui Shenyou, Cui Gong, Lu Jun, Pei Xiu, Yang Shou, Wei Baoheng, Lu Yan, Xiao Houzi, Liu Zhan, Liu Zhuan, Cao Que, Bi Xian, Du Shenquan, Liu Ye, Dou Luzhan · 1 passage
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Old Book of Tang, Chapter 185Volume 181 Biographies 131: Shi Xiancheng, Zi Xiaozhang, He Jintao, Han Yunzhong, Li Yanzhen, Luo Hongxin · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 7Volume 7 Book of Later Liang 7: Taizu Annals 7 · 2 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 11Volume 11 Book of Later Liang 11: Biographies 1: Empresses and Consorts · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 12Volume 12 Book of Later Liang 12: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 1 passage
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因為博戲，全昱酒酣，忽起取骰子擊盆迸散，大呼梁祖曰：「朱三，汝碭山一民，因天下饑荒，入黃巢作賊，天子用汝為四鎮節度使，富貴足矣，何故滅他李家三百年社稷，稱王稱朕，吾不忍見血吾族矣，安用博為！」 At dice play Quan Yu, drunk, leaped up, smashed the bowl with his dice, and shouted at the Liang founder: "Zhu Third! You were a peasant from Dangshan who joined Huang Chao's rebels in famine; the throne made you lord of four circuits—that should have been enough. Why wipe out the Li dynasty's three-century altars and call yourself king and Son of Heaven? I will not watch our family slaughtered—why gamble at all!"
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 16Volume 16 Book of Later Liang 16: Biographies 6: Ge Congzhou, Xie Yanzhang, He Zhen, Zhang Guiba, Zhang Guihou, Zhang Guibian · 10 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 20Volume 20 Book of Later Liang 20: Biographies 10: Xie Tong, Si Maye, Liu Han, Wang Jinrao, Gao Shao, Ma Sixun, Zhang Cunjin, Kou Yanqing · 4 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 24Volume 24 Book of Later Liang 24: Biographies 14: Li Ting, Lu Ceng, Sun Zhi, Zhang Jun, Zhang Yan, Du Xunhe, Luo Yin, Chou Yin, Duan Shen · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 50Volume 50 Book of Later Tang 26: Biographies 2: Imperial Family · 6 passages
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克修少便弓馬，從父征討，所至立功，武皇節制雁門，以克修為奉誠軍使，從入關為前鋒，破黃揆於華陰，敗尚讓於梁田坡，蹙黃巢於光順門，每戰皆捷，勇懾諸軍。 Ke Xiu was skilled with bow and horse from youth. On his father's campaigns he distinguished himself wherever he fought. When Li Keyong took command of Yanmen, he appointed Ke Xiu commissioner of the Fengcheng Army. Marching into the passes as vanguard, Ke Xiu defeated Huang Kui at Huayin, routed Shang Rang at Liangtian Slope, and drove Huang Chao back at Guangshun Gate. He won every engagement, and his boldness overawed the other armies.
Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 62Volume 62 Book of Later Tang 38: Biographies 14: Meng Fangli, Zhang Wenli, Dong Zhang · 2 passages
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 65Volume 65 Book of Later Tang 41: Biographies 17: Li Jianji, Shi Junli, Gao Xinggui, Zhang Tingyu, Wang Sitong, Suo Zitong · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 140Volume 140: Treatises 2 Calendars · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 145Volume 145: Treatises 7 Music 2 · 1 passage
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Old History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 146Volume 146: Treatises 8 Finance and Economics · 1 passage
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 52Volume 52 Treatises 48: Finance and Economics 2 · 1 passage
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New Book of Tang, Chapter 184Volume 184 Biographies 109: Ma, Yang, Lu, Lu · 4 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 23Volume 23 Later Liang Biographies 3: Yang Shihou, Wang Jingren, He Gui, Wang Tan, Ma Sixun, Wang Qianyu, Xie Yanzhang · 5 passages
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 35Volume 35 Biographies 15: Zhan Wenyu, Yang She, Zhang Ce, Zhao Guangfeng, Xue Yiju, Su Xun · 1 passage
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 41Volume 41 Miscellaneous Biographies 21: Lu Guangchou, Tan Quanbo, Lei Man, Zhong Chuan, Zhao Kuangning · 1 passage
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New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 44Volume 44 Miscellaneous Biographies 24: Liu Zhijun, Ding Hui, He Delun, Yan Bao, Kang Yanxiao · 1 passage
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