Apart from fighting against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, why is there no slogan of fighting against the Yuan Dynasty and restoring the Song Dynasty?

I believe everyone is familiar with the slogan of "anti-Qing dynasty and regaining sight", and activities of "anti-Qing dynasty and regaining sight" abound in history. Until the Republic of China, there was still the slogan of "opposing the Qing Dynasty and regaining sight". After the Ming Dynasty was destroyed by the Qing Dynasty and China was ruled by Manchu, many organizations in the Central Plains carried out many activities to "fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty".

But why didn't similar "anti-yuan revival" activities take place in the Yuan Dynasty, which was also founded by ethnic minorities? In fact, anti-Yuan activities did exist in history, but the number was small. The most famous "anti-Yuan Fu Song" activity belongs to the "Red Scarf Army Uprising" at the end of Yuan Dynasty.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, many contradictions between the Mongolian rulers of the Yuan Dynasty and the vast number of Han people in the Central Plains intensified. Mongolian aristocrats exploited the Han people and the government taxed them. At the same time, it is accompanied by various natural disasters. Because the Yellow River has not cleaned up the silt all the year round, floods often burst its banks, causing people to be displaced and living in poverty. In this way, under the background of natural and man-made disasters, the famous "Red Scarf Army Uprising" appeared among the Han people who had been oppressed by the Mongols for a long time.

Under the oppression of the Yuan government, Han He decided to revolt and established the White Lotus Sect. When the first uprising broke out, it was suppressed by the government. Han Shantong was also killed by soldiers of the Yuan Dynasty in the battle. Liu Futong ran faster and was lucky to survive. Although the first uprising failed and his companion was killed, it did not make Liu Futong give up the idea of uprising, but made him more determined to carry out the uprising. Liu Futong learned from the failure of the first uprising and launched the second uprising, which was the "Red Scarf Army Uprising" that shocked the whole country at that time.

Different from "fighting against the Qing Dynasty and regaining sight", the slogan of the Red Scarf Army is relatively more obscure, and it is called "fighting the darkness with the Ming Dynasty". The "Ming" here refers to the rebels, and the "dark" refers to the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty. The huge lineup of the Red Scarf Army made many ordinary people who were dissatisfied with the rule of the Yuan Dynasty see hope and joined the Red Scarf Army to participate in the uprising. In A.D. 1335, he led an uprising army to capture Bozhou, and established his good friend Han's son as "Wang Xiaoming" with the title of "Dasong". This is a revolutionary regime established by the peasant class.

The Red Scarf Army led by Liu Futong defeated the army of the Yuan Dynasty general Hess and Gong, and later defeated the 300,000 elite of Timur, which was far from its strength, and matched Kyoto. At the same time, the Red Scarf Army in the south also captured Hubei and Hunan. At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang inherited the army of his father-in-law, Guo Zixing, and led the army to capture Nanjing.

In A.D. 1357, the Yuan Army gradually counterattacked the Red Scarf Army, and at this time, the Red Scarf Army also experienced internal contradictions and divisions. 1363, Zhang Shicheng who surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty killed Liu Futong, the soul of the Red Scarf Army. Seeing the dead leader of the Red Scarf Army, Liu Futong, and the divided Red Scarf Army, "Wang Xiaoming" Han Liner had to turn to Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already in power, so Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the banner of "opposing Yuan and restoring Song Dynasty".

As Zhu Yuanzhang became more and more powerful, after clearing all the obstacles on the road to the new dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to drown "Wang Xiaoming" Han Liner in time to seize the world situation. Soon after, Zhu Yuanzhang succeeded in winning the throne, changed the country name to "Daming" and established the Daming Dynasty.

In fact, whether it is "anti-Yuan and restoration of Song Dynasty" or "anti-Qing and restoration of Ming Dynasty", although it is under the slogan of overthrowing the current dynasty and rebuilding the old dynasty, it is actually only to overthrow the existing regime. After the regime was overthrown, who should do it for the emperor depends on their respective abilities.