Core theme: Using Zhang Jue's life trajectory as a clue, it shows the suffering and struggle of the lower class people in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, depicts Zhang Jue's transformation from a doctor who helped the world to a leader of the uprising, restores the complete process of his family, marriage, faith and career, and reflects the social turmoil and the inevitable of the times before the fall of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Era background: During the period from Emperor Shun to Emperor Ling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, political corruption occurred, relatives and eunuchs alternated in power, party-controlled disasters occurred frequently, powerful tyrants annexed land, famines and epidemics continued, and the people were in dire straits.
