The earliest recorded peasant uprising in China may be the Chinese uprising (Western Zhou Dynasty), followed by the Daze Township uprising (indirect cause of the demise of the Qin Dynasty), the red eyebrow, the green forest hero (cause of the demise of the new dynasty and the revival of the Eastern Han Dynasty), the Yellow Scarf uprising (remote cause of the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the establishment of the Three Kingdoms), Huang Chao (indirect cause of the demise of the Tang Dynasty), Zhong Xiang (indirect cause of the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty) and the Red Scarf Army (indirect cause of the demise of the Yuan Dynasty) The latest large-scale peasant uprising in China was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement from 1850 to 1864 (in the middle of Qing Dynasty).

After the Republic of China, there were also important peasant uprisings, such as the autumn harvest riots in 1927. Accurately speaking, most of the participants in the uprising are refugees who have no land, and they are eager to own land. In the liberation war from 1946 to 1949, the Communist Party of China (CPC) used land reform to encourage people to resist the government forces of the National Government. In a sense, it is also a peasant uprising.