184 CE
Yellow Turban context
Religion · Chinese traditions · Religion and conflict
Popular religious and healing movements gained political force late in the Han period. The Yellow Turban rebellion reveals connections among religion, social crisis and political power, without representing a homogeneous Daoism.
Precision, calendar, and review
- Start
- year · no uncertainty qualifier in this record
- Dating in the source document
- 184
- Calendar and convention
- Historical-era years; the source calendar is not identified. No conversion of days is assumed.
- Year zero
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- Documentary review
- 2026-09-04
Reading the date: point event.
Sources
- Isabelle Robinet — Zhang Jue, Encyclopedia of Religion (opens in a new tab)
Source provenance and scope
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- 2026-09-23
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