张献忠 / Zhang Xianzhong

Overview

张献忠 / Zhang Xianzhong enters the wiki through Hanji 388-4 as one named actor in the episode’s explanation of late-Ming and early-Qing Sichuan devastation.

Current Profile

The current profile is intentionally narrow. Hanji 388-4 does not give a full biography of Zhang Xianzhong; it uses “张献忠屠蜀” as part of a broader causal cluster that also includes other armies, famine, epidemic, and tiger disaster. The page therefore records his role as a symbol and source-scoped contributor in the episode’s 四川战乱人口毁伤 argument.

Key Characteristics

• Late-Ming rebellion figure named in the episode’s Sichuan catastrophe narrative.
• Associated by the source with “屠蜀” and extreme civilian suffering.
• Not treated as the sole cause of Sichuan’s demographic collapse in this source.
• Used as part of a multi-cause war-disaster explanation involving armies, famine, epidemic, and social breakdown.

Evidence

• Sichuan catastrophe role: Hanji 388-4 names Zhang Xianzhong’s killing in Sichuan while also listing other armies, famine, epidemic, and tigers.
• Source-scope boundary: Hanji 388-4 uses the case to discuss civilian cost in乱世 rather than to produce a documentary biography or responsibility allocation.
• Regional memory function: Hanji 388-4 places Zhang Xianzhong in the same frame as Song-Yuan Sichuan devastation, making him part of the province’s repeated-war-disaster memory.

Qualifications

This page does not settle the historiographical debate over Zhang Xianzhong, exact death counts, or the division of responsibility among Zhang’s forces, Qing forces, Ming remnants, famine, epidemic, and ecological effects. It records only what Hanji 388-4 contributes.

What Changed

• Created the entity from Hanji 388-4 as a source-bounded actor in Sichuan war-devastation memory.

Relationships

• 四川 - regional setting of the catastrophe narrative.
• 四川战乱人口毁伤 - concept where Zhang Xianzhong is one named causal actor.
• 明朝 - late-dynastic setting for the collapse branch named by the source.