The peasant revolt in the late Qin period was the beginning of a major social change in Chinese history, marking the collapse of the Qin dynasty (221 BC – 207 BC) and the rise of the Han dynasty. This massive popular rebellion was a general eruption of the social contradictions accumulated by the Qin Dynasty's harsh rule, heavy forced labor, and years of warfare.
Peasant uprising at the end of Qin.
After Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he tried to consolidate the newly established unified empire through a centralized system and a series of measures to strengthen state control. However, the Qin Dynasty was too eager for quick success in just a dozen years of governance, and the laws were strict, and the people were overwhelmed. The large-scale construction of the Great Wall, the Afang Palace and the Lishan Mausoleum and other projects requisitioned a large amount of people's manpower, coupled with years of foreign wars, resulting in serious damage to agricultural production, people's lives are difficult, and the bottom of the society is full of complaints.
At the end of the Qin Dynasty, the forced labor was too heavy, and the people lived in hardship.
In 209 B.C., the Qin court conscripted 900 poor peasants to serve in Yuyang (near present-day Beijing) in order to defend the frontier. The two knew that the time of death was approaching, so they decided to rise up and launch an uprising in Daze Township, Qi County, putting forward the slogan of "Princes and Princes Will Have a Kind of Xiangning", calling on the suffering people of the world to jointly overthrow the tyrannical Qin rule. They established themselves as generals and established the Zhang Chu regime, which opened the prelude to the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang revolted.
The news of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising quickly spread all over the country, triggering a response from heroes from all over the country. Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are the two most prominent forces. Xiang Yu, with his family's influence in the Chu State, led 8,000 Jiangdong disciples to cross the river to the north, and defeated the main force of the Qin army in the Battle of Julu with the determination to break the cauldron and sink the boatLiu Bang raised troops from Peixian and advanced all the way west, finally attacking Xianyang and accepting the surrender of Prince Ying of Qin.
Battle of the Great Deer. The peasant revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty was an important turning point in Chinese history, ending the short and harsh rule of the Qin Dynasty and directly contributing to the birth of a new feudal dynasty, the Han Dynasty. This uprising demonstrated the strength of the masses of the people to dare to fight in the face of oppression, and also revealed the historical law that any regime that loses the support of the people and abuses the power of the people will eventually come to an end. At the same time, the success of the peasant uprising at the end of the Qin Dynasty also provided valuable lessons for the later peasant wars, which had a profound impact on later generations.