Xu Shouhui
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Xu Shouhui | |||||||||||||||||
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Emperor of Tianwan | |||||||||||||||||
Reign | 1351–1360 | ||||||||||||||||
Born | 1320 Yuan Yanyou 7 ( Shangwubao, Duoyun Township, Luotian County, Henan Jiangbei Province | ||||||||||||||||
Died | 1360 (aged 39–40) Tianwan Tianding 2 ( Yuan Zhizheng 20 ( Caishi, Taiping Lu, Jiangzhe Province | ||||||||||||||||
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Dynasty | Song (Tianwan) |
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Xu Shouhui (simplified Chinese:
Born in Luotian (
Emperor
[edit]In August 1351, he worked with others in Qízhōu (蘄州) to establish the rebel army of Red Turbans under the pretense of the Buddhist White Lotus Society. In the following months of the Red Turban Rebellion, they captured Qishui (蘄水) and made it the command centre of the Red Turbans and the capital of the newly declared Empire of Tianwan (
The number of his supporters increased rapidly as he claimed to be Maitreya Buddha (
After being temporarily defeated by the army of the Yuan dynasty, he fled to Huangmei Mountain (
In 1358, after Chen Youliang took control of the city Longxing (now Nanchang
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Chan, Hok-Lam. “The ‘Song’ Dynasty Legacy: Symbolism and Legitimation from Han Liner to Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty.” Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies 68, no. 1 (2008): 91–133. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40213653.
- ^ Hung, Hing Ming (2016). From the Mongols to the Ming Dynasty: How a Begging Monk Became Emperor of China, Zhu Yuan Zhang. Algora Publishing. ISBN 978-1-62894-152-4.