In June of the second year of Ganfu (875), Huang Chao and his brothers and nephews responded to Wang Xianzhi. In February (877), in the fourth year of Ganfu, Huang Chao led an army to capture Yunzhou and killed Xue Chong, our time. In the fifth year of Ganfu (878), Wang Xianzhi died, and many people mainly pushed Huang Chao, the so-called "General Chongtian", and pushed Wang Ba instead. In the first month of the sixth year of Ganfu (879), soldiers surrounded Guangzhou. On November 17th, the first year of Guangming (880), Liu Ying, who stayed in the East Palace, entered Luoyang. 1 February1day, soldiers arrived in Tongguan. 1February 13, in the Hanyuan Temple, the emperor's throne, the title was "Daqi", and the Jianyuan Golden System was established, which was an amnesty for the world.
On June 15th, the fourth year of Zhonghe (884), Huang Chao was defeated by the dead wolf and tiger valley. In the early years of Zhao Zongtian, Huang Chao led the remnants to flee and ambushed the local tyrant Deng in Xiangyin, Hunan, which ended the peasant uprising in the late Tang Dynasty.
Hang a red light on the fifteenth day of the first month.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao led the rebel army northward to attack Huncheng, but the siege lasted for three days. Huang Chao sneaked into the city to find out, and was saved by an old man. The old man also told Huang Chao how to attack the city. Huang Chao was very moved and said, "Old man, do you have any red paper at home?" The old man said, "there is no ready-made, but you can buy it in the store." Huang Chao said, "You buy some red paper, tie a lantern and hang it on the eaves on the fifteenth day of the first month." After Huang Chao left, the old man passed the news to his neighbors. Soon all the poor people in the city knew about it, and every household bought red paper lanterns. Huang Chao returned to the camp and immediately called the soldiers to discuss. On the fifteenth night of the first month of the Gregorian calendar, he took 5,000 chosen men, touched the moat, and quietly entered the city according to the road pointed out by the old man. With a bugle call, both inside and outside were attacked, and soon the city gate was breached, and the insurgents entered the city! At this time, the poor people hung red lights at their doorsteps, and the whole city was brightly lit. All the doors with red lanterns are closed to the insurgents; When the red light didn't hang, the insurgents rushed in to catch corrupt officials and old money, and killed all corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry in just one night. The next day, Huang Chao opened a warehouse to distribute food, and sent people to send 200 taels of silver to the elderly [38].
Since then, every household has hung a red light on the fifteenth day of the first month. This custom has been handed down.
"Insert wormwood" in Dragon Boat Festival
The Huang Chao Uprising Army attacked the Central Plains during the Dragon Boat Festival. Local officials let out the wind: "Huang Chao shakes his knife across the mountain and his head falls!" Mobilizing people to flee their homes is to "win Huang Chao". Curb the expansion trend of the rebels.
In a family in the Central Plains, all the men have gone out, and there is only one woman and two children at home. One child is her own and the other is her sister-in-law's orphan. Her own child has just learned to walk, and her sister-in-law's orphan is one year older than her own child. The woman ran away with two children and her sister-in-law's orphan, but let her toddler walk, but she fell behind. Not far away, I met a man in yellow and asked, "Why doesn't sister-in-law let the older child go and the younger one?" The woman told the truth, and the man in yellow was very moved. She said, "Your fearless loyalty in a crisis has broken Huang Chao's knife, and Huang Chao can't take your head. In fact, as long as you insert wormwood in front of your house, it means that your family is loyal and Huang Chao can't help you. " Then he suddenly disappeared. The woman thought it was the fairy's advice, so she went home and did as she was told, and told the refugees to insert wormwood along the way to break Huang Chao's knife. Therefore, women are usually kind and do more good deeds. Many people think that it is unnecessary to "go to Huang Chao" to plant wormwood at home and spend the Dragon Boat Festival at home [39].
Sure enough, when the rebels crossed the border, they saw people with wormwood at home, and no one bothered them. Doctors stationed in the army also treat people and ask them about their sufferings. At that time, the story of women's meeting with immortals spread all over the country, and people's families stopped "going to Huang Chao" to insert wormwood for the Dragon Boat Festival and perform loyalty for women [39].
In fact, the man in yellow is a forward counselor of the Huang Chao Rebel Army, and he is skilled in martial arts. Wherever the rebels go, there is no village, and the rebels are alone. Knowing that something was wrong, the counselor turned into plain clothes, looked for the reason alone and met a woman. Suddenly disappeared, jumped into a tree and hid. The counselor did a little trick, which not only broke the government's: "Huang Chao waved his knife over the mountain and his head fell to the ground!" " Rumors won the support of the people for the rebel army and made the people accumulate virtue and do good deeds, so the world inherited this tradition and became the custom of "inserting wormwood" on the Dragon Boat Festival today [39].