Red Eyebrows / 赤眉

The Red Eyebrows / 赤眉 are one of the uprisings named in 126.王莽之死：神圣帝国的回旋镖，和回旋镖的回旋镖 as the [[XinDynasty|Xin dynasty]] unraveled. The episode places them in a wider crisis of displacement, inflation, natural disaster, frontier stress, and popular violence under [[WangMang|王莽]].

The source does not make 赤眉 the episode’s main subject. Their wiki role is to mark the social and military pressure that turned Wang Mang’s ideological state project into collapse, alongside [[LulinRebellion|绿林]] and the [[KunyangBattle|Battle of Kunyang]].

Key Claims

• The Red Eyebrows represent the popular-revolt side of Xin collapse.
• The uprising is connected in the episode to state policy failure rather than treated as isolated disorder.
• Their presence helps show that legitimacy claims failed at the social level.

Connections

• Wang Mang / 王莽, Xin dynasty / 新朝, and Wang Mang Reforms / 王莽改制 - regime and policy context.
• Lulin / 绿林, Battle of Kunyang / 昆阳之战, and Liu Xiu / 刘秀 - collapse and restoration branch.
• Dynastic Legitimacy Backfire / 王朝合法性回旋镖 - legitimacy failure frame.