Chen Youliang was the founder and first emperor of the dynastic state of Chen Han in Chinese history.
10 Facts About Chen Youliang
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Chen Youliang was one of the military leaders and heroes of the people's revolution at the end of the Yuan dynasty.
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Some say he was born with surname Chen Youliang, while others say he was born with surname Xie.
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Vietnamese records say that Chen Youliang was the son of Chen Yiji or Tran Ich Tac, a Tran dynasty leader who settled in the Yuan dynasty.
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In 1357, Chen Youliang proclaimed himself "King of Han" in Jiangzhou, and emperor after Xu Shouhui died.
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Chen Youliang appointed Zou Pusheng as Grand Preceptor and Zhang Bixian as prime minister.
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From 1359 to 1363 Chen Youliang's fleet was the strongest on the upper Yangtze River.
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Chen Youliang's power was at least as great as that of another rebel state, Wu, led by Zhu Yuanzhang, founder of the Ming dynasty.
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Chen Youliang descended from a fishermen family in Hubei, meanwhile Tran Ich Tac was appointed as a court magistrate in Huguang, hence it was unlikely that a high-rank magistrate like Ich Tac had a fishermen son.
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Chen Youliang's clothes were taken back by his subordinates in a boat and sent to the south slope of Sheshan, approaching the Wuchang Bridge Head of Yangtze River Bridge in Wuhan City, Hubei Province for burial.