Han Lin'er

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In this Chinese name, the family name is Han.

Han Lin'er (

Zhu Yuanzhang
.

After the Song dynasty was defeated in 1279, all of China came under the rule of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty. The Han people did not accept foreign rule and organized resistance against the Mongols. The most prominent of the anti-Mongol societies and sects was the White Lotus, a secret Buddhist organization heavily influenced by Manichaeism. The leader of the White Lotus was Han Shantong, the father of Han Lin'er.

A long-planned uprising broke out in May 1351 in central China among peasants gathered to reconstruct the dikes on the

Anhui Province).[1] In 1357–58, Song troops occupied considerable territories in the North China Plain, and Han Lin'er relocated with the government to the conquered Kaifeng
.

In 1359, however, the Mongol army inflicted a series of defeats on the Song and drove them out of Kaifeng. Until 1362, only the province of Jiangnan, ruled by Zhu Yuanzhang and formally subordinate to Han, and a small, depopulated area around Anfeng, the center of one of the prefectures in the west of today's Anhui province, remained of the Song state.[2]

In January 1363, the army of another rebel state, Wu, made a surprise attack on Anfeng and killed the de facto leader of the Song regime, Liu Futong. Han Lin'er was saved by Zhu Yuanzhang's troops from the attack.[3] Zhu then settled the powerless Han with his court in his territory near Nanjing.

In January 1367, Han Lin'er drowned while sailing on the

Yangtze River.[4]

References

  1. ISBN 0521243327
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  2. ISBN 0521243327
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  3. ^ Dreyer, p. 82.
  4. ^ Mote, p. 51.
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