Near the end of the Han Dynasty, in the reign of Emperor Ling, the open corruption and incessant factionalism of the government causes famine, plague and lawlessness to grow rife across China, even in the civilised mainland. Under such circumstances, as they often do, people flock to new masters, men who can grant them the luxury of imagining a better tomorrow.

In the Taoist community, often shunned by the Confucian scholars and officials, three travelling healers, brothers from Julu, found between them the sect of the Huangjin, the Yellow Headscarf that marks the followers of an apocalyptic philosopher known as 'The Way Of Peace'.

Believing that a great change is coming, the death of the old world, the 'Blue Sky' of the past tainted with Han's lies and failures, and that in the year of 184 AD, the sky will turn yellow, the most fortuitous and spiritual colour in Chinese culture, as a sign that heaven and earth shall at last correlate as one and the Gods themselves shall serve as the only masters of humanity, thereby making the empire obsolete as the new masters of the world would be men who heal, not destroy.

The Zhang Brothers, Jue, Bao and Liang, soon develop a vast following gathered from far and wide. Among the tides of starving peasants, dispossessed labourers and fellow disciples come disillusioned scholars, glory-seeking warriors, idealistic elites and hidden manipulators. Eventually, as the rebellion grows, spreading across China in a swarm of anarchy, the Zhang brothers must rely on tactics that do not become them in order to control their following. For to overthrow authority itself requires authority. Separating their throngs into tactical divisions and placing them under the command of men with experience and authority, often themselves resembling the very people they wish to depose, the Yellow Scarf Rebellion steadily becomes its own antithesis, ideals breaking under the weight of the grim realities of conflict, and in the face of a horde comprised primarily of angry desperate men on a rampage, those most at risk are the same poor, miserable lower classes that these rebels emerged from.

(From Left To Right)

(Top Row)

Zhang Bao, Zhang Jiao, Nanhua (Behind), Zhang Liang

(Upper-Middle Row)

Bo Cai, Guan Hai, Zhang Mancheng, Bu Si, Guo Xiantai

(Lower-Middle Row)

Liu Pi, Peng Tuo

(Bottom Row)

Xu Feng, Gong Du, Ma Yuanyi, Zhang Kai, Feng Xu