"Wait until the autumn comes on September 8, and I will kill a hundred flowers after the flowers bloom." The incense permeated Chang'an, and the city was full of golden armor. One of Huang Chao's poems, "Not the First Fu Ju", uses the appearance of Yong Ju to show his ambition, and the whole poem is full of momentum and strength. Huang Chao took several imperial examinations in his life, without exception, the name Luosun Mountain, in addition to this poem has been passed down to this day, a custom of the Dragon Boat Festival every year is also caused by him.
The "Chronicle of History" records that the Dragon Boat Festival was formed in honor of the poet Qu Yuan, and the time was set for the fifth day of the first month of May, because as the "Record of Customs and Soils" said: "Midsummer Dragon Boat Festival." End, Hatsuya. "And the custom mentioned above is to plant wormwood, although it is rare in the city today, but it is still used by every household in the countryside, and people mostly explain this custom for reasons such as warding off evil spirits and repelling mosquitoes, but they do not know that the habit of inserting wormwood is related to the yellow nest.
In the last years of the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt, and the national strength was much worse than before. In 873, the twelve-year-old Emperor Tang ascended the throne, coinciding with frequent natural and man-made disasters, and the people were not happy. In the year of Ganfu (874 AD), there was a great drought in the world, and the peasants had no harvest and almost fell into a hopeless situation. The following year, Huang Chao, who had been defeated many times for the sake of meritorious service, felt that his career was hopeless and could not save the country from danger and chaos by serving as an official, so he rose up and led the peasants to confront the imperial court.
Huang Chao himself was not born in a poor peasant family, his family has been selling salt for generations, although the status of the merchant family is not high, but it is not worried about food and clothing, at least equivalent to our current well-off family. Because of his good family, Huang Chao had the conditions to study when he was a child, and was often infected by the majestic nostalgia of the literati and inkers of the past generations, and was inspired to read and serve the country and relieve the world.
At that time, the people had long been resentful of the imperial court, and there was a rare famine, Huang Chao used his family wealth to open a warehouse to provide grain, and many people who were about to starve to death were saved by him and submitted to him from then on. Everywhere Huang Chao went, he won the hearts and minds of the people, and soon his peasant army grew to tens of thousands. In the fourth year of Ganfu (877 AD), Huang Chao led an army to occupy Yun Prefecture and Yi Prefecture, causing panic in the imperial court.
The imperial court repeatedly sent troops to engage Huang Chao, but failed to suppress it. The following year, Wang Xianzhi was killed in battle, and Huang Chao was promoted to "Soaring General", and his reputation among the peasants grew. The imperial court gradually found that a large part of the reason why Huang Chao's army was difficult to attack was that he had won the hearts of the people and had a steady stream of strength to replenish it, so he said in the people: "Huang Chao shakes the knife across the mountain, and the head of the person falls to the ground!" "For a moment people were panicked.
On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Huang Chao led his troops to attack the city, but found that the city was empty. The plainclothes retinue next to him went to inquire, and when he saw a woman fleeing with two children in a hurry, he felt strange in his heart, and asked her why she carried her eldest son on his back, but let the younger son follow him. The woman told him that the eldest son was an orphan of her sister-in-law, and she had promised her sister-in-law that she would take care of him, and now that Huang Chao was killing people like a hemp, the people could only flee for their lives, and if the situation was critical and she could not save the two children, she could only try her best to take her sister-in-law's son away.
After listening, the entourage was touched by her loyalty and told her that when she returned home, she would hang wormwood at the door of her house, and Huang Chao would not be able to do anything to her. The woman was suspicious of the letter, and when she returned home, she hid her two children and hung up wormwood. On the other hand, the entourage also told Huang Chao the truth about the people abandoning the city and fleeing.
Later, Huang Chao did not hurt the family of the person who hung wormwood on the door during the conquest, and the story of the woman and the Yellow Nest spread quickly, and everyone followed suit and rushed to hang wormwood. It happened that it was the Dragon Boat Festival, and posterity retained this custom with the meaning of wormwood to ensure peace.