Its most prominent campaign was amplified by an independent uprising of the aboriginal Miao people, and one of its earliest campaigns was led by a woman named Tang Sai-er.
Its most prominent campaign was amplified by an independent uprising of the aboriginal Miao people, and one of its earliest campaigns was led by a woman named Tang Sai-er. Spawning the Eight Diagrams movement and linked to a later revolt by the Nian Army, this group historically had its fighters wear red headgear, earning it the nickname the "Red Army." Their guerilla tactics confounded imperial forces during their most widespread uprising, and were further aided by the embezzlement of funds issued to raise forces against them by the corrupt general Ho-Shen. Originating as a sect of Pure Land Buddhism and rising against Chien Lung in what would lead to the decline of the Qing Dynasty, this is, FTP, what namesake of a 1796-1804 rebellion, a Chinese religious society named for a flower?
Its most prominent campaign was amplified by an independent uprising of the aboriginal Miao people, and one of its earliest campaigns was led by a woman named Tang Sai-er.
{White Lotus} or {Pai Lien Chiao}