The Liang Province Rebellion of 184 to 189 begins as an insurrection of the Qiang peoples against the Han Dynasty in the western province of Liang of 2nd century China, but the Lesser Yuezhi and sympathetic Han rebels soon join the cause to wrest control of the province away from central authority.
This rebellion, which closely follows the Yellow Turban Rebellion, is part of a series of disturbances that lead to the decline and ultimate downfall of the Han Dynasty.
Despite receiving relatively little attention in the hands of traditional historians, the rebellion nonetheless has lasting importance as it removes Han Chinese power in the northwest and prepares that land for a number of non-Han-Chinese states in the centuries to come.
