hsien-chih

Updated: May 25, 2025

In 874 began a great rising in the south of the present province of Hopei, the chief agrarian region. The rising was led by a peasant, Wang Hsien-chih, together with Huang Ch'ao, a salt merchant, who had fallen into poverty and had joined the hungry peasants, forming a fighting group of his own. It is important to note that Huang was well educated.

Wolfram Eberhard - A History of China