Believed to be of Turkic-Persian origin, he was a military commander on the northeast frontier.
Poet Du Fu wrote The Man With No Family to Take Leave Of in honor of the event named after him. He was a protégé of the concubine Yang Kuei-fei and was killed by his own son. Believed to be of Turkic-Persian origin, he was a military commander on the northeast frontier. He captured the city of Lo-yang and forced the emperor Hsüan Tsung to seek refuge in Szechwan after capturing the imperial capital of Xi'an in 755 CE. His revolt finally ended in 763 CE. FTP, identify this man who fomented a rebellion from which the T'ang dynasty never recovered.
Poet Du Fu wrote The Man With No Family to Take Leave Of in honor of the event named after him.
{An Lushan}