Chuanchu Anbaili Uprising: A Large-scale Anti-Qing Uprising in the Middle Qing Dynasty

Chuanchu Anbaili Uprising (1795-1804) refers to the armed anti-Qing uprising of Christians in An Baili in the border area of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Henan and Hubei during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty in China.

Most of the earliest participants were white lotus believers. It first broke out in the border areas of Sichuan, Chu and Shaanxi, and then spread to Sichuan, Chu, Shaanxi, Henan and Gansu provinces. It lasted for nine years and was the largest peasant war in the middle of Qing Dynasty.

This large-scale uprising cost hundreds of thousands of troops in sixteen provinces of the Qing Dynasty, and resulted in the death of more than ten senior military attaché s, including prefect and company commanders, and more than 400 intermediate military attaché s below lieutenant level. According to statistics, around the Qing Dynasty, more than 200 million taels of silver were invested, which was equivalent to five years' fiscal revenue of the national treasury, and the national treasury was empty. The Sichuan-Chu Uprising marked the beginning of the decline of the Qing Dynasty, and to some extent denied the so-called prosperity of Kanggan.