Lulin / 绿林

Overview

Lulin / 绿林 is synthesized as the uprising force that moves from disease-hit mountain rebels into Xiajiang and New Market branches, then from loose anti-新朝 revolt into a Han-restoration coalition, before helping bring the 长安 endgame into view and making 王莽’s legitimacy collapse bodily visible. 126.王莽之死：神圣帝国的回旋镖，和回旋镖的回旋镖 places Lulin beside 赤眉 as part of the revolt field created by Wang Mang’s policy, frontier, monetary, disaster, and social failures. Hanji 660-2 adds the branch-formation layer after epidemic loss: 王常 and Cheng Dan become Xiajiang troops, while Wang Feng, Wang Kuang, and Ma Wu become New Market troops. Hanji 663 adds the coalition-formation layer: New Market, Pinglin, Xiajiang, Nanyang, and Liu-family actors need a common Liu-lineage title, but choose 刘玄 over 刘縯 partly because he seems controllable. Hanji 666 gives the immediate Chang’an breach and palace-fire layer. Hanji 667 gives the focused terminal scene: Han troops press Jian Terrace, Wang Mang is killed, and his body and head become objects of dismemberment, display, and popular revenge.

Current Profile

Lulin’s current wiki role is not a complete military history of the movement. It is the revolt-side pressure that exposes how sacred legitimacy and reform ideology fail once people, soldiers, and local powerholders no longer experience the regime as protective. In the Wang Mang-focused source, Lulin joins Chimei and Kunyang as evidence that coercive moral rule has lost practical legitimacy. Hanji 660-2 makes the earlier internal split more concrete: epidemic loss drives survivors out of the mountain field, with Xiajiang and New Market names attached to different leaders before the later Liu-family coalition stage.

Hanji 663 pushes that role back into coalition formation before Kunyang. The source shows anti-Xin actors moving beyond loose armed groups: Han forces and Xiajiang troops win against Xin commanders, Liu Yan fights around Yuyang and Wan, and Qing-Xu groups begin adopting general titles, documents, city attacks, and anti-Wang-Mang proclamations. Inside that widening revolt field, New Market and Pinglin commanders join the search for a Liu-family ruler but resist Liu Yan’s leadership because it would reduce their control.

Hanji 666 sharpens that role into an urban collapse sequence before Wang Mang’s death. Han troops defeat the Nine Tiger generals, local offices and great clans shift toward Han banners, attackers enter Chang’an through Xuanping Gate, and palace resistance weakens as eunuchs and insiders flee. The source also shows the movement’s mixed meaning: restoration, revenge, merit-seeking, and wealth-seeking coexist around the capital.

Hanji 667 then turns the same endgame into a terminal body scene. The troops around Jian Terrace do not merely defeat Wang Mang’s side. They turn the fallen ruler into a public sign: 杜吾 kills him, another officer identifies the body through the imperial ribbon and cuts off the head, soldiers divide the corpse, and the displayed head becomes a target of crowd violence.

Key Characteristics

• Anti-Xin uprising force whose pressure belongs to the social and political collapse of Wang Mang’s rule.
• Disease-disrupted rebel field whose Xiajiang and New Market branches precede the Liu-lineage coalition.
• Coalition field that uses Liu-lineage restoration while still containing factional control struggles among New Market, Pinglin, Xiajiang, Nanyang, and Liu-family actors.
• Part of the wider Lulin-Chimei-Kunyang revolt field that shows sacred and Confucian legitimacy failing under material breakdown.
• Force associated in the current wiki with Chang’an entry and the Jian Terrace endgame rather than a full campaign reconstruction.
• Urban-collapse actor whose capital entry mixes Han-restoration legitimacy with merit-seeking, revenge, and seizure of wealth.
• Political violence setting in which Wang Mang’s death moves from regime defeat into public corpse humiliation.

Evidence

• Revolt-field placement: 126.王莽之死：神圣帝国的回旋镖，和回旋镖的回旋镖 places Lulin beside Chimei and Kunyang as part of late-Xin collapse.
• Governance-failure context: 126.王莽之死：神圣帝国的回旋镖，和回旋镖的回旋镖 connects Lulin to Wang Mang’s reform, frontier, price, and coercion failures rather than to a stand-alone bandit story.
• Epidemic and split: Hanji 660-2 says Lulin rebels suffer heavy disease loss and split away from the mountains into Xiajiang and New Market branches.
• Branch leaders: Hanji 660-2 links Wang Chang and Cheng Dan to Xiajiang troops and Wang Feng, Wang Kuang, and Ma Wu to New Market troops.
• Coalition formation and Liu-lineage title: Hanji 663 says anti-Xin commanders seek a Liu-family royal descendant to match public sentiment and make Liu Xuan Gengshi emperor.
• Factional control struggle: Hanji 663 says New Market and Pinglin commanders prefer Liu Xuan because Liu Yan is harder to control.
• Chang’an breach: Hanji 666 says Han troops push through Xuanping Gate into Chang’an after Xin’s outer defense collapses.
• Mixed urban motive: Hanji 666 presents Chang’an as a prize field where restoration claims, revenge, honor, and material gain all operate.
• Palace fire: Hanji 666 says local youths gather people and burn the Weiyang Palace gate as the city disorder widens.
• Jian Terrace endgame: Hanji 667 narrates Han troops closing on Jian Terrace and the final killing of Wang Mang.
• Postmortem hatred: Hanji 667 records the dismemberment, head display, and tongue-directed public revenge after Wang Mang’s death.

Qualifications

This page does not reconstruct the full Lulin command structure, regional origin, or campaign chronology. Hanji 660-2 supports the disease-and-branch layer, but Cheng Dan, Wang Feng, Wang Kuang, Ma Wu, exact epidemic loss, and branch geography remain source-scoped. Hanji 663 supports the coalition-formation and Liu-lineage selection layer, but New Market, Pinglin, Xiajiang, Liu Liang, Wang Kuang, Wang Feng, Wang Chang, Zhu Wei, Zhang Ang, and exact faction boundaries remain source-scoped unless later pages require separate treatment. Hanji 666 and Hanji 667 use “Han troops” across Chang’an, Weiyang Palace, and Jian Terrace scenes and keep many actors source-scoped, including Deng Ye, Li Song, Wang Xian, Zhang Han, Wang Yi, Wang Lin, Wang Xun, Dai Yun, Zhu Di, Zhang Yu, Gongbinjiu, Wang Sheng, Miao Xing, and Tang Zun. The sources support Lulin’s current role as a branch field, coalition, endgame, and legitimacy-collapse actor, not every detail of the movement’s internal organization.

What Changed

• Added Hanji 660-2 as the disease-and-branch layer before the Xiajiang/New Market coalition sequence.
• Preserved Hanji 663 as the coalition-formation layer where Liu-lineage restoration needs factional control through Liu Xuan’s elevation.
• Preserved Hanji 666 as the Chang’an breach, palace-fire, and mixed urban-motive layer before the Jian Terrace killing.
• Preserved Hanji 667 as the focused Jian Terrace, Wang Mang death, and postmortem public-revenge layer.

Relationships

• 王莽 - defeated ruler whose final death scene defines Lulin’s current terminal role.
• 新朝 - regime whose collapse creates the Lulin endgame.
• 长安 - urban prize and breach setting in Hanji 666.
• 未央宫 - palace-fire setting that marks the collapse of Xin’s last court space.
• 赤眉 - parallel revolt force in the late-Xin and early-restoration collapse field.
• 王常 - Xiajiang actor now tied to the earlier branch-formation layer.
• 昆阳之战 - related military rupture exposing Xin military and political fragility.
• 更始帝刘玄 - Liu-lineage figurehead elevated from within the anti-Xin coalition.
• 刘縯 - stronger leadership alternative whom New Market and Pinglin commanders resist.
• 张卬 / Zhang Ang - pressure actor in the coalition’s Liu Xuan elevation decision.
• 复国王室名义合法性 - title-use mechanism visible in the choice of a Liu-family emperor.
• 刘秀 - later Eastern Han founder connected to the revolt aftermath.
• 公开尸体羞辱 - body-violence concept extended by the Wang Mang endgame.
• 意识形态过度控制 - governing-failure frame behind the revolt field.
• 王朝合法性回旋镖 - legitimacy frame explaining why sacred authority could turn against Wang Mang.