Show C china Is known As home it lome of u f revolts exl lu volts ar arced med uprisings under rule of danchus hundreds of years ago 9 so are probably more re at volts rebellions and revolutions recorded in the annals of china than can be erected from the histories of all the oa na lisas of the west partly it Is true because chinese annala of an authentic nature go back much farther than western annals but partly too because the chinese appear to be given to lin a tend tendency enc that has ham persisted per alsted eldice the first of the ma elgh eighteen teea emperor of the ilia dynasty mounted his throne away back in the dim mists of remote time when the pha rachs of egypt building their temples by the nile the ula ilia dynasty alt 9 IZI by american aress DIU 00 BUN SUN tal TAI BEN of or now TION lasted from 2205 to agu ll U G C when it was overturn cl ei by tho the bhang shang or tin yin dynasty an equally active race which ruled until 1122 years before the christian era Va disaster rister overtook the bhang shang emperors at last although rome bad not been built and the ore 01 were still scattered tribes aheu they gate gave way to the princes of the chou line there followed a pro traded period of unrest until in 0 f V another dynasty the tain dawned upon chinas Poll politic horizon te tain tsin lasted only until when it yielded to the ant of the 11 n which hold bold the throne a in turn until A 1 I being anally oer thrown by the wel ct dy dynasty asty after tho the wei came the buy suy d danty sixty in mo almost na short lived ns as the tsin for it was vai overthrown in by the in A D pa the first emperor of the 1 aup of sunk sting ascended the dragon throne and aih filled ills lits pla e for many yeara years one of ibm m being emperor lit tit the time of the great mongol invasion u of the twelfth cen ury ary nut but their time tad tall come in he fur fair north is line of provincial rul tm n 4 boasting tie top filially family patronymic of kin were i to exert n domi P a Y aud and fit bunline titue they rose to e tart t I 1 L vr I 1 to efe Belye the throne front th 1 t of the effeminate bung hong em emperor mho nho like the of ill tit of china e ruling rulan houe had de from the standard of hip hl bif 41 incon kubia kubla khan khans prosperous Prop rou reign thi th reign did asti sat loog the ram of the mongol arm ICK im linsted it to detraction placing on th tit dragon throne in its stead plead the fa tooth kilbin khao khan of whom coleridge ffrost hlo hk dream poem in meny rt the i reates reate sj 0 all the chinese theror tw eror krabit klinn minn began bis his reign in 17 and 1 held the throne until hie his deth de th in n MO in alie til vears the nahi natio u wa vaa mori mort allu and unit power hil 1 dmn ver afore 1 f mongol fol followed loed kubia shaik remembered for their of tile introduction of in IW the sling dynas tr v wa was upon the ashes of he political built bollt up by the x n mongols Mon gols 1 nod it ruled success uj until the tile Manchu 4 of the north i tip lip fit rt r well built hill chinese swept down upon uron peking and find installed thel thell tin arine 1 in 11 act manabu bare bore never been nu no meroux rind although they have man tn in keep cp their saddles by dial of ine int the tople 4 under them they the hare hure aeeti wi unable to preserve absolute binl and one of the fart 0 tp thy th y toot took to their sor t the country waa nas the publication f nn an edict edlet compelling the people d to haopt the pigtail the sian stan chik wire hon horsemen semen and the pigtail was wa as a national thin 1 because bec auve the Ita said th chinese were of top ame iame i status i as a hoir their hames the chi took it 0 o tap th new custom eo so readi tr ir that when another edict was put pub 1 11 lehel ched a year or so ago or derin derins theto to dispense with ith he pigtail lime dim edity was experienced in enforcing it rebellion Rebel Koa rebellion marked hi th troubled helgn of the manchu emper rebellion and great records of ward waid and chinese gordon go ore era and in most cases case the gem of re volt was first in evidence la in one or the other of the three province that are causing trouble today Sze chuan nan and hunan have always been centers of discord it wa was in these provinces too that the famous I 1 triad ari ad a society 0 among the foremost of chinas vat network of secret societies first rw roo to dangerous power firt first of the talaina Tal pina ions the emperor Illen feng ascended the throne in 1850 and by his oppre 8 and cruelty alienated amz acy y of his people from him the result was a series of risings all over the con country culminating in a it revolt in the province of Kwa ngsi sl which took be shape of the proclamation of a youth who claimed descent from one on of the was emperors the fiery provinces of lu aad and hunan were promptly aliamo with rebellion but the movement lacked a concrete purpose ana and n battle cry crr and it began to drag sally when a new factor appeared upon chinas troubled horizon the youthful scion of the stings was promptly forgotten and the attention of the country was concentrated cent rated upon ilung Bla Sla tsuan a 8 former schoolmaster and convert to christianity who had built up for himself a new nev ethical and n new religion people flocked to lils standard itan dard by thousands urged on to participation by a ric famine and find plague which had devastated the tile country preci precisely seir as china has his been devastated in the last fen fey years city after city fell before bis his enormous ill armed hordes and finacy in 1853 be he established himself in and proclaimed himself first emperor of the dynasty taking the title of tien wang OP or heavenly kins king it lored lo red us its if the star of the man stan chus had set forever missionaries leq sent out reports to the nation that a convert to christianity was car crying the cross through the empire and that now wan wax the chanco chance to claim tens of millions of mongol souls goal con money rifles rides and munitions of war were poun poured j inta no to aid old the Tal pings centuries of oppression starvation a aud lid misuse had prepared the chinese to listen to the doctrines doctrin eg of the tien wing want which h were really oo 00 more ill li than they vere like mo SIO hamme being a mere travesty upon the tile W he be had gle gleaned aneil from tho the the imperial til ill trained and poorly armed bade but half hearted ret resistance stance to the fanatical Tal pings and cities and provin provinces ves continued to fall with alarm ax regul arity always with an accod p aa 4 1 4 AL at til CUANO chrnart CHri Art WAB WAR rutx larbin of and mas massacre dacre fiat noon soon turned the int enthusiasm of the hen heavenly venly kluga kings missionary fri in ml 4 into horror in ill e few years the mil rail 1 na far north as aeflen tien in unil find nt fur far mouth as and IK anu their outpost heing within a att rt march of the foreign settlement settlements it t Rhin shil which lind even then beme ome rne one of the largest trade centen f the far east in thie situation the imperial gov eminent bad find vourse rt to he the same pro lection that it Is relying upon now foreign drilled troops whose discipline laight be relied uron ur on to match the su numbers of tho the levies there was a L difference however in the rebellion the had no such force at hind bind it t had to call in the foreigners and have bare them instruct troops amr the rebellion had bad gained ground and itself whereas now yuan shi kal ical can rely the support t of gome some thousands of men whom he himself trained when be was cicero viceroy I t and minister alyd ter of war |