The shun dynasty was an incel dynasty? Was zhang xianzhong an actual incel?
Not quite, but much of the rebel armies, especially in the early stages of the rebellions, were composed of poor, young, wifeless men (called
guanggun, "bare branches", in Chinese). Because they lacked family ties and the mainstream of Chinese society did not have much place for secular unmarried men, the
guanggun had little choice but to join wandering groups of male vagrants—and because the Chinese state disapproved of these groups, seeing them (perhaps correctly) as little more than bands of marauding rapists, rioters, and would-be rebels, it cracked down harshly on them. This made the
guanggun class of frustrated young men perhaps the easiest demographic to mobilize against the state.
Chinese policy makers were apparently unwilling to face the fact that the issue would not fix itself without righting Late Imperial China's ridiculous sex ratio (estimated at about 120 men per 100 women) by banning female infanticide and polygamy and instead spent administrative resources fighting the symptoms (the
guanggun bands) as well as it could.