Hu Chenjing

At the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, the "Eight Kings' Rebellion" depleted the country's power. The Xiongnu, Xianbei, Jie, Di, and Qiang took advantage of the situation and invaded. It was known in history as the "Five Husbands Rebellion in China". During this period, the Han people in the north were massacred and the population dropped sharply. According to the "Book of Jin", "the scholars and women of Zhongzhou fled to the south of the Yangtze River for sixteen or seventy years." The continuous wars made the northern half of the country at war. As the Jin Dynasty moved southward, a large number of displaced people fled in large numbers. Some refugees formed a "begging army" under the leadership of Sima Teng in Bingzhou, with the goal of "begging for life" as their survival goal. It had the dual nature of an official organization and self-defense for the refugees. Although the Hu regime has an absolute advantage in military strength, it is full of internal conflicts and attacks on each other. The Han people struggled to survive in the cracks.