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Sun En
Sun En was a leader of the Five Pecks of Rice Daoist sect who led a great rebellion along the south-east coast of Eastern Jin China from 399. His seaborne forces threatened the capital Jiankang before being repelled; he drowned himself in 402. Suppressing the revolt raised the general Liu Yu, who founded the Liu Song dynasty in 420.
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