Zhu Yigui


Zhu Yigui was the leader of a Taiwanese uprising against Qing dynasty rule in mid-1721.
He came from a peasant family of Zhangzhou Hokkien ancestry, he lived in the village of Lohanmen located in the area of modern-day Neimen District, Kaohsiung, there he worked raising ducks and was a respected member of the local community. In 1721 an earthquake wrought havoc to Lohanmen, even more the prefect of the island,, not only kept collecting heavy taxes even among the impoverished people who lost their possessions with the earthquake.
Zhu was one of those who rose in rebellion and his good reputation among the locals gave him enough followers so that on 19 April he attacked and captured the city of Kua-chin-na. Other rebel leaders acted on the island so that the Qing authorities were heavily pressured. Hoklo, Hakka and Taiwanese aborigines rallied in revolt against the Manchu authorities.
Zhu and combined their forces and launched an attack on the seat of Tainan Prefecture, the administrative capital of the island, which felled almost without a fight. The Qing authorities retreated to Penghu. The rebel army continued its movement on the western coastal plains. On 1 May, Zhu took the title of Zhongxing Wang and the name Yong He, he also established an administration reminiscent of the Ming dynasty.
His power started to weaken after disputes with Du Junying, disastrously this occurred at the same time that the Manchu government, organized an expedition against the rebels. The Imperial forces commanded by and , landed on 16 June and on 28 June Zhu was captured and executed.
Zhu Yigui Zhu Yigui was a national hero in Taiwan but Taiwan failed in the early resistance against the Qing Dynasty The garden saw Xuantian God. Xuantian God asked him to come out to save the people. Zhu Yigui decided that he could resist the Qing Dynasty as long as he became emperor. However, Zhu Yigui resisted the Qing Dynasty and was framed by the people of Taiwan. Execution beheading Zhu Yigui was decapitated at the age of 17, so Zhu Yigui only died at the age of 17 The people of Taiwan gradually forgot Zhu Yigui, but now the Taiwanese have helped Zhu Yigui build a statue for the purpose of the year.