![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Zhang Jue had claimed he had received a divine book from a lake and could cure the sick. Zhang Jue (张角) started the events which snowballed into that fatal shock to the dynasty and created the opportunity for other actors to come into play through his Way of the Taiping (太平道) Daoist movement turning into the Yellow Turban Rebellion. People were scared and people were desperate, and the scientific consensus of the time was that disaster correlated with the emperor losing the Mandate of Heaven. Natural disaster and social problems had weakened the empire substantially. The Han had already fallen into decline, all it needed was the wrong shake at the right time to fall entirely. The period started between roughly 220-280 CE, though it hit the point of no return around 184 CE. The collapse of the Eastern Han into the Three Kingdoms period in Chinese history wasn’t as much an “if” as much as a “when”. What I’m citing agrees with what I previously learned in college and the multiple sources I’ve read about the subject if that’s any consolation. First, a disclaimer, this is an armchair history piece. ![]()
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