Huang Chao (黃巢) | 24 Histories

Overview

Huang Chao was a rebel.

PeriodSui and Tang

IdentityHistorical · Male

Roles

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Life and dates

Attested activity

AD 881 巢陷長安
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 45, passage 4
AD 875 to AD 884 黃巢賊中
Dated from the passage context · New History of the Five Dynasties 45, passage 3

Places and affiliations

Polity Huang Chao’s Qi 黃巢 · Relation Ruled
Directly stated · New History of the Five Dynasties 45, passage 4

References in the histories

New History of the Five Dynasties, Chapter 45Volume 45 Miscellaneous Biographies 25: Zhang Quanyi, Zhu Youqian, Yuan Xiangxian, Zhu Hanbin, Duan Ning, Liu Qi, Zhou Zhiyu, Lu Siduo · 4 passages

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少以田家子役於縣，縣令數困辱之，全義因亡入黃巢賊中。 As a boy he did corvée for the county as a farmer’s son. The magistrate shamed him again and again; Quanyi ran off and joined Huang Chao’s rebels.

巢陷長安，以全義為吏部尚書、水運使。 When Chao seized Chang’an he made Quanyi Minister of the Civil Service and commissioner of water transport.

巢賊敗，去事諸葛爽於河陽。 After Chao’s fall he went to Zhuge Shuang at Heyang.

是時，河南遭巢、儒兵火之後，城邑殘破，戶不滿百，全義披荊棘，勸耕殖，躬載酒食，勞民畎畝之間，築南、北二城以居之。 Chao and Ru had burned Henan hollow—fewer than a hundred households left. Quanyi cut brush, pushed the plow, carried wine and food into the furrows himself, and raised south and north cities for people to live in.