The first party blockade occurred in the Han Dynasty

On July 12, 167, the disaster of the Eastern Han Dynasty's party suppression was two attacks on scholars and students in the Huan and Ling periods of the Eastern Han Dynasty, with far-reaching impacts. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, relatives and eunuchs alternately controlled the government, and the emperor became a name only. On the one hand, they wantonly plundered the people's wealth and dared to seize it; at the same time, they controlled the power of selecting officials, abused relatives and friends, confused right and wrong, and blocked the career careers of a large number of moral and knowledgeable intellectuals. At that time, there was a limerick circulating among the people that ridiculed the official selection system: "When you raise a scholar, you don't know how to write; when you observe filial piety and integrity, your father lives in a different place; when you are in cold life, you are as clean as mud, and when you are in high places, you are as timid as chickens." "We can see what fatuous figures the officials selected under the control of relatives and eunuchs are. The darkness of politics, social turmoil, and the uncertainty of the destiny of the country and personal future prompted some officials and intellectuals to put forward discussions and sharply criticize current politics, disparage relatives and eunuchs who usurped power and stole the country, and praise honest officials who were not afraid of power and worried about the country and the people. The so-called "Qingyi" gradually formed the so-called "Qingyi". This kind of Qingyi later developed and led to the famous disaster of party suppression in China history.

Comment: An important event that led to the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty.