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Huang Chao - Famous Rebel Leader in Chinese History
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Transtlate Huang Chao (黄巢; died 884) was the leader of the Huang Chao Rebellion (黄巢之乱, 874-884), known in mainland China as the Huang Chao Revolution (黄巢起义) in China that seriously weakened the once mighty Tang Dynasty of China. The dynasty, which was one of the strongest in the world at the time, dissolved within a few decades after the rebellion, and the empire broke up into competing states of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period. Even though Huang Chao was just one of many rebel leaders in Chinese history, the significance of his rebellion equals that of Taiping Rebellion or the Yellow Turbans. Although the Huang's rebellion occurred in a smaller scale than An Shi Rebellion, it led to the downfall of Tang Dynasty in 907, by Huang Chao's former follower Zhu Wen. It also gave power to Turkish chief Li Keyong, whose son defeated Zhu Wen's Later Liang Dynasty and established Later Tang, extending the civil war even further. It also has significance in the sense of agrarian protest and anarchist movement. This was also the first major rebellion sprang by criminal organization
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