Zhang Jue

張角
Died
October 184
Ancestral home
Julu (Pingxiang County, Hebei)
Also known as
Zhang Jiao Great Teacher General of Heaven
Book mentions
27
Roles:
general rebel leader taoist
Factions:
Yellow Turban Rebels (primary)
Relationships:
Zhang Bao Brother
Zhang Liang Brother
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Appears in 3 chapters:
  • Chapter 1 — Three Heroes Swear Brotherhood In The Peach Garden; One Victory Shatters The Rebels In Battlegrounds.
    Wise and Worthy Master and Lord of Heaven; receives the Essential Arts of Peace from the Saint Hermit, builds thirty-six circuits of followers, and ignites the Yellow Turban Rebellion in the first month of Central Stability (AD 184). Routs Dong Zhuo near Guangzong before the Three Brothers' counter-charge.
  • Chapter 2 — Zhang Fei Whips The Government Officer; He Jin Plots To Kill The Eunuchs.
    Reported dead of illness before Huangfu Song's arrival at the front; his coffin is exhumed, the corpse beheaded, and the head sent for exposure at Capital Luoyang. His name lives on in the 'avengers of Zhang Jue' who rise at Wancheng.
  • Chapter 28 — Putting Cai Yang To Death, The Brothers' Doubts Disappear; Meeting At Gucheng, Lord and Lieges Fortify Each Other.
    Zhang Jue; named in passing - Liao Hua's old Yellow Turban roots.