Posthumous title: General Tian, teacher Dade.

Nationality: Eastern Han Dynasty

Ethnic group: Han nationality

Birthplace: Julu (now Pingxiang, Xingtai City, Hebei Province)

Date of death: 184

Occupation: leader of the Yellow Scarf Army, leader of Taiping Road.

Trust: Taiping Road

Main achievements: the establishment of Taiping Road.

Launch a yellow turban insurrectionary uprising

Brothers: Zhang Bao, Sean.

Opening angle (? -184), Julu (now Julu County, Xingtai City, Hebei Province). At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty in China, he was the leader of the Yellow Scarf Army and the founder of Taiping Road. Because he got the Taiping Jing from Taoist Yu Ji and others, he took religious salvation as his responsibility, organized the masses with some religious ideas and social and political thoughts, and preached in the early days of the establishment of Ning (168- 172). In the first year of Zhong Ping (184), Zhang Jiao called himself "the general god" and led the masses to launch an uprising with the slogan "Heaven dies, Huang Tian should stand, and the age is in Jiazi, and the world is prosperous", which was known as the "Yellow Scarf Uprising" in history. Soon Zhang Jiao died of illness, and the insurgents were quickly suppressed by the Han Dynasty.

Zhang Jiao was a native of China in the Eastern Han Dynasty (about the 2nd century AD) and the founder of Taiping Road, an early Taoist school. He and his two brothers, Zhang Bao and Sean, both believe in Taoism.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three brothers founded the organization Taiping Dao, which was mainly influenced by Taiping Jing and the early popular idea of "Huang Lao", and transformed this idea into their own teachings and widely publicized it to believers. The doctrine of Taiping Taoism advocates that there are ghosts and gods in the sky to monitor people's behavior, increase or decrease their life span according to the good and evil of people's behavior, and requires people to do more good deeds and less bad things.

After more than ten years' efforts, Taiping Road in Zhangjiao has developed to many parts of the country, and the number of believers has reached several hundred thousand. Zhang Jiao preached as a leader. According to historical records, he mainly relied on treating others to expand his influence. Zhang Jiao also called himself "the teacher of great virtue" and regarded himself as the forerunner of the public. He established an organization "Fang" of military and political integration according to the whole country, with 36 parties, which the leaders of all parties called "Qu Shuai" and had great influence among the people.

At that time, because of social corruption, political darkness and people's poverty, Zhang Jiao took advantage of the trend and put forward the slogan "Heaven will die, and the world will be fine at the age of 60" and launched the Yellow Scarf Uprising. After the failure of the uprising, Taiping Road basically disappeared.