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| | Kungfu Magazine: E-Zine Feature Article |
 | | Some twenty vessels strong at their peak, the Red Junk Opera Company traveled the rivers of Guangdong (Kwangtung), through towns such as Zhaoqing (Siuhing), Foshan (Futsan), and Guangzhou (Kwangchow, Canton), performing popular drama for the common villagers and townsfolk. |
 | | Organized by Chen Lanjisi, head of the Tiandihui (Increase Brotherhood Society), they wore a hong jin (hung gam, red turban, perhaps in homage to the Red Turban Rebellion that had threatened the Mongol Yuan dynasty before it fell to the Ming) as a way of identifying themselves, and attacked several local villages. |
 | | The Taiping Rebellion would rage until 1864, when Hong Xiuquan died in disgrace among his concubines, one of over 20 million deaths that would occur during the struggle. |
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