佛祖統紀 35.139

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初鉅鹿張角奉事黃老。以妖術教授。號太平道。呪符水以療病。令病者跪拜首過。或時病愈。眾共神之。角分遣弟子周遊四方轉相誑誘。十餘年間徒眾數十萬。自青徐幽冀荊揚兗豫八州之人莫不畢應。凡三十六方。方猶將軍也。大方萬餘人。小方六七千。角弟子唐周上書告之。有詔逐捕角等。角勅諸方俱起。皆著黃巾以為標幟。故時人謂之黃巾賊。旬月之間天下響應（角起於靈帝中平元年）。詔皇甫嵩討角。嵩與角弟梁戰。大破之斬梁。角先已病死。剖棺戮屍。傳首京師（後漢書皇甫嵩傳）。

Earlier, Zhang Jue of Julu served Huang-Lao and taught with occult arts, calling it the Taiping Dao. He chanted over talisman water to cure illnesses, ordering the sick to kneel, prostrate, and confess their transgressions. Sometimes their illnesses were healed, and the multitude collectively regarded him as divine. Jue dispatched his disciples in all directions to deceive and entice people one after another. In over ten years, his followers numbered several hundred thousand; from the eight provinces of Qing, Xu, You, Ji, Jing, Yang, Yan, and Yu, there was none who did not respond. In all, there were thirty-six divisions (fang); a division was like a general. A large division had over ten thousand people; a small division had six or seven thousand. Jue's disciple Tang Zhou submitted a memorial exposing him, and an edict was issued to hunt down and arrest Jue and the others. Jue ordered all the divisions to rise up together, all wearing yellow turbans as their insignia. Therefore, the people of the time called them the Yellow Turban Bandits. Within ten days to a month, the realm responded in resonance (Jue rose in the first year of the Zhongping reign period of Emperor Ling). An edict ordered Huangfu Song to suppress Jue. Song battled Jue's younger brother Liang, greatly defeated him, and beheaded Liang. Jue had already died of illness earlier; they opened his coffin and mutilated the corpse, sending his head to the capital (Hou Han shu, 'Biography of Huangfu Song').