The Huang Chao Uprising Army was a folk uprising army at the end of the Tang Dynasty. It was for the sake of better lives for the common people that it rebelled against the imperial court's exorbitant taxes and tyrannized the common people. However, there are many rumors among the people that during the war, the Huang Chao Uprising Army not only ate people but also mashed them up by the living because of lack of food and grass, with a daily amount of thousands of people. But these are all folk rumors and recorded. Through the present historical data and the description of the rumors at that time, we can see that this is caused by many illogical places.

there is a rumor among the people: Thieves can still leave some food when they pass by, but the Huang Chao Uprising Army can't even leave slag when they pass by. ? This is very unreasonable, because the insurgents are basically poor people who can't eat. They know that people's hard work may make use of outrageous violence when collecting food and grass from the people, but direct plunder does not leave people a little, so such troops are more likely to be dissolved. After all, they all come from the poor class. People who are the same as themselves are burned and looted, so who dares to go to this army, and how can people in the army stay safely?

people still say:? The Huang Chao Uprising Army is so hungry that it can only eat the living every day, thousands of them every day. They put the living people on a huge stone mill and mash the bones and meat together to eat together? . This is even more unrealistic. The Huang Chao Uprising Army is going to March and fight. Every soldier's harness is mainly light. Why do you have to bring a huge stone tablet mill specially, and there are thousands of people every day? How many mills does it need? We know that the stone mill in rural areas is particularly difficult to mash Yili soybeans, let alone people. If you really want to eat, why not just cut it down and eat it?

If an army is really heartless enough to do this, it eats thousands of people every day. Such an army may have let others follow the uprising against them long ago. And according to historical records, Qin Zongquan, one of our time in the Tang Dynasty, left behind and took refuge in Huang Chao, while Liu Yunzhang, who was left behind in the east, also defected to the insurgents. If the Huang Chao uprising army really ate the living so morally, it would have been destroyed long ago.

The Huang Chao Uprising Army once attacked Chang 'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and stayed there for several years. At first, they were disciplined and gave food to civilians. Because there is no unified management requirement, Chang 'an gradually witnessed a lot of bloodshed. First, officials were killed, then the rich, and finally the civilians. But there is no historical record with high authenticity that the Huang Chao Uprising Army ate the living.