The patriot’s blood is the seed of Freedom’s tree. Thomas Campbell

The Red Turban Rebellion in China, 1351-1368
By the mid-fourteenth century, dissension among the Mongolian leadership and corruption and greed of the government officials
had greatly weakened the central government. At the same time, there was an upsurge of opposition to the Mongol leadership
among the Han Chinese peasants, fueled by inflation and hardship caused by famine and flooding. The “Red Turbans,” or “Red Scarves,”
was a secret society of peasants whose aim was to overthrow the Mongols and re-establish the Song Dynasty.