Editing Revolt of the Three Feudatories (section)

==Declaring rebellion==
In December 1673, Wu Sangui ended his connection to the Qing dynasty and instigated the rebellion under the banner of "opposing Qing and restoring Ming" (反清復明). Wu courted Han Chinese officials to join the rebellion by restoring Ming customs and cutting off [[queue (hairstyle)|queue]]s.<ref name="Spence 1990">Spence (1990)</ref>

Wu's forces captured [[Hunan]] and [[Sichuan]] provinces. In 1674 both Geng Jingzhong in [[Fujian]] and after Shang Zhixin, the man who massacred Guangzhou, died, his son followed suit in [[Guangdong]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Spence|first=Jonathan|title=The Cambridge History of China|year=2002|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hi2THl2FUZ4C|volume=9|isbn=9780521243346|page=159|publisher=Cambridge University Press }}</ref>  At the same time, [[Sun Yanling]] and [[Wang Fuchen]] also rose in revolt in [[Guangxi]] and [[Shaanxi]] provinces. [[Zheng Jing]], ruler of the [[Kingdom of Tungning]], led an army from [[Taiwan]] and landed in Fujian and Guangdong to fight and join the rebel forces.<ref>{{Cite book |editor=[[National Defense University (Republic of China)|三軍大學]] |title=《中國歷代戰爭史 第16冊 清（中）》 |publisher=中信出版社 |year=2013 |isbn=9787508637112 |location=Taiwan |page=32 }}</ref>

Wu entrusted the [[5th Dalai Lama]] to negotiate with the [[Kangxi Emperor]] about dividing China along the [[Yangtze]], with Wu ruling the south and Qing retaining the north, but the Emperor rejected this proposal.<ref>{{cite journal |author=孟鴻 |year=2018 |title=康熙、吳三桂、五世達賴與噶爾丹 |url=https://tpl.ncl.edu.tw/NclService/JournalContentDetail?SysId=A17014472&cn%5B0%5D=627&q%5B0%5D.f=JT&q%5B0%5D.i=%E4%B8%AD%E5%9C%8B%E9%82%8A%E6%94%BF&page=15&pageSize=1&orderField=score&orderType=desc |journal=中國邊政 |issue=214 |page= |pages=15-54}}。</ref> Later on in 1678, he declared a new dynasty, the Zhou, invoking [[Zhou dynasty|the name]] of the great pre-imperial dynasty.<ref>{{Cite book|title=The Search for Modern China|last=Spence|first=Jonathan D.|publisher=W. W. Morton & Company|year=1999|isbn=0-393-97351-4|pages=50}}</ref>