清咸同年间,贵州黔东南广大苗区,在太平天国革命影响下,爆发了以张秀眉为首的苗族农民大起义,起义从咸丰五年(公元1855年)三月十五日展梅尼誓师开始,至同治十二年(公元1873)底失败,历时十八年。起义军先后攻占了镇远、平越(今福泉)、思州(今岑巩)、石阡、思南、铜仁、黎平、都匀等广大地区,席卷半个贵州;并挥戈东进入湖南的镇筸、麻阳、沅州、晃州、黔阳、会同、靖州等地,威震湘、桂、川、滇诸省,时间之长,规模之大,在贵州苗族史上是唯一仅有的。 In the same year, in the vast Miaoli area in southeastern Guizhou Province, under the influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom revolution, a Miao ethnic peasant uprising led by Zhang Xiu Mei broke out. The intifada began with the Maunee pledged on March 15 in Xianfeng for five years (1855 AD) To the Tongzhi years (AD 1873) at the end of failure, which lasted eighteen years. The rebel forces captured a large area of ​​Zhenyuan, Ping Yue (now Fuquan), Sizhou (now Cen Gong), Shiqian, Sinan, Tongren, Liping and Duyun, sweeping half of Guizhou. Guizhou, Guangxi, Sichuan, Yunnan provinces, long time, large-scale, in Guizhou Miao history is the only .