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Huang Feihu, originally known as Prince Wucheng of the Shang Dynasty, was a fictional character from the Ming Dynasty novel 'Fengshen Yanyi'. Born to a family of officials who had served the Shang Dynasty for seven generations, Huang Feihu was granted the title of 'Prince Wucheng Who Guards the Kingdom', while his younger sister was a concubine of cruel King Zhou of Shang.<br/><br/> King Zhou, corrupted and bewitched by the vixen spirit Su Daji, starts to lust after Huang Feihu's wife, Lady Jia. He tries to rape her, but Lady Jia commits suicide to preserve her dignity. Consort Huang, Huang Feihu's sister, scolds King Zhou for his wicked ways, resulting in him throwing her off Zhaixing Tower to her death in anger. When Huang Feihu learns the truth, he defects to the vassal state of Xiqi, precursor of the Zhou Dynasty, bringing along his family and followers.<br/><br/> When Ji Fa, the future King Wu of Zhou, leads a campaign to overthrow the Shang Dynasty, Huang Feihu fights under him in various battles. He is eventually killed during the Battle of Mianchi at the hands of General Zhang Kui. The sage Jiang Ziya deifies him at the end of the novel, making him the leader of the rulers of the Five Sacred Mountains, tasked with overseeing the fate and fortunes of mortals, as well as watching over the Eighteen Levels of Hell.
The Taiping Rebellion was a widespread civil war in southern China from 1850 to 1864, led by heterodox Christian convert Hong Xiuquan, who, having received visions, maintained that he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ, against the ruling Manchu-led Qing Dynasty. About 20 million people died, mainly civilians, in one of the deadliest military conflicts in history.<br/><br/> Hong established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with its capital at Nanjing. The Kingdom's army controlled large parts of southern China, at its height containing about 30 million people. The rebels attempted social reforms believing in shared 'property in common' and the replacement of Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion with a form of Christianity.<br/><br/> The Taiping troops were nicknamed 'Longhairs' (simplified Chinese: 长毛; traditional Chinese: 長毛; pinyin: Chángmáo) by the Qing government. The Taiping areas were besieged by Qing forces throughout most of the rebellion. The Qing government crushed the rebellion with the eventual aid of French and British forces.<br/><br/> In the 20th century, Sun Yat-sen, founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, looked on the rebellion as an inspiration, and Chinese paramount leader Mao Zedong glorified the Taiping rebels as early heroic revolutionaries against a corrupt feudal system.