huáng 黄

### Huang Xie He was well - travelled and well - informed. King Kaolie of Chu appointed him as the prime minister and conferred on him the title of Lord Chunshen. He served as the prime minister of Chu for more than twenty years and had over three thousand retainers. He married the younger sister of Li Yuan. Knowing that she was pregnant, he presented her to King Kaolie, and she gave birth to King You. Later, when Li Yuan came into power, he was jealous of Lord Chunshen and thus laid an ambush of killers at Jimen to assassinate him. ### Huang Chuping (Huang Daxian) ### Huang Ba (?-51 BC) His courtesy name was Cigong. He was from Yangxia, Huaiyang in the Western Han Dynasty. He studied laws and decrees in his youth. At the end of Emperor Wu's reign, he filled the post of a junior official and later served as the assistant governor of Henan. At that time, officials were inclined to be harsh, but Huang Ba governed with leniency and kindness. He once studied the Book of Documents under the Confucian scholar Xia Gengsheng. He rose to the position of prime minister and was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Jiancheng. After his death, he was posthumously given the title of Ding. ### Huang Tingjian (1045 - 1105) His courtesy name was Luzhi. He was also known as the Taoist Master of Shangu and the Old Man of Fu. He was from Fenning (now Xiushui County, Jiangxi Province) in the Song Dynasty. He was one of the Four Scholars of the Su School, together with Zhang Lei, Chao Buzhi, and Qin Guan. He was skilled in poetry and was the founder of the Jiangxi poetry school. He was also good at running - hand and cursive scripts. His works include Collected Works of Shangu (inner, outer, and separate collections) and ci - poems. ### Huang Chao (?-884) He was from Caozhou in the Tang Dynasty. He came from a salt - merchant family, amassed wealth and gathered a crowd. He especially liked to shelter outlaws. Since the reign of Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty, due to the excessive luxury of the royal family, heavy taxation, and continuous floods and droughts, the people were living in misery and bandits rose up everywhere. In the first year of Qianfu of Emperor Xizong (AD 874), Wang Xianzhi led a bandit uprising. The next year, Huang Chao起兵 in response. In the fifth year of Qianfu, Wang Xianzhi was defeated and died in Hubei. Huang Chao was elected the Great General of Rushing into the Sky. He led his troops to raid Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong and other places. In the first year of Guangming (AD 880), he captured Luoyang and Chang'an. Emperor Xizong fled to Chengdu. Huang Chao proclaimed himself emperor and established the state of Daqi. The Tang Dynasty bribed Li Keyong with official titles to come to its aid and defeated Huang Chao. Huang Chao committed suicide by slitting his throat. The ten - year - long Huang Chao Rebellion, as it was historically called, finally came to an end. ### Huang Daopo She was a female craftsman proficient in textile technology in the Yuan Dynasty. She once learned textile technology from the Li people in Yazhou. After learning the skills, she returned to her hometown and engaged in textile work, which promoted the progress of the cotton textile industry and made the fine cloth from Songjiang well - known far and wide after the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. Textile workers built a shrine to worship her to show their gratitude for her contributions. She was also called Huang Po.