In modern China, a peasant uprising movement had a profound impact on our country. After the leader of the uprising Hong Xiuquan occupied Nanjing, he began to enjoy the expansion of his power.
Hong Xiuquan likes women, so he dominates many women in Nanjing. The number of concubines is unimaginable. It was this kind of enjoyment that made Hong Xiuquan fail in the later period. How many women did he harm?
The background of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
Hong Xiuquan is a Confucian student who is familiar with the Four Books and the Five Classics. From a young age, he hoped to be an official in the imperial court in the future. He was driven by his ideals to take the imperial examinations and took many examinations with no results. After winning a good ranking, Hong Xiuquan had no choice but to start a transformation in the face of failure in the imperial examination and became a teacher of teaching and educating people.
Hong Xiuquan came into contact with Christianity later, and influenced by Christianity, Hong Xiuquan took another path. Under the influence of Christian thought, Hong Xiuquan founded the God Society and began to propagate religious thoughts.
At the beginning of the promotion, many people did not believe it, which cast a shadow over Hong Xiuquan’s missionary journey. Hong Xiuquan did not choose to give up, but changed a place to continue preaching. After changing the place of preaching, Hong Xiuquan united with local people with lofty ideals to carry out together, and the God Society also got a new life here. Slowly formed an armed force that is not weak.
The Qing government sent people to solve the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement . This time the campaign against the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not succeed, but instead allowed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to win. After that, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement became out of control, and many people joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's uprising.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement has brought great benefits to farmers. The most obvious of which is that farmers have fields and can cultivate on the fields. This has brought great benefits to farmers. This is why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement can be supported by farmers. s reason.
After Hong Xiuquan led the rebel army to capture Nanjing, he lived a life of reluctance to think of Shu, and forgot to continue to overthrow the Qing Dynasty's goal. After all, Hong Xiuquan's feudal thoughts in his head have not been changed. Now he has only realized that he wanted to live a good life as an official. He only saw the achievements in front of him and did not consider the future.
Hong Xiuquan’s harem
Hong Xiuquan established a political power after he captured Nanjing, and Hong Xiuquan formulated corresponding systems. Most of these systems were implemented in accordance with the Qing Dynasty system. Apart from the system, Hong Xiuquan also stipulated himself To live a life like an emperor, people have to perform emperor etiquette to themselves.
In addition, Hong Xiuquan also established his own harem. Some people who saw the opportunity to get promoted took the initiative to dedicate some beauties to Hong Xiuquan, and Hong Xiuquan happily rewarded this person.
The women in Hong Xiuquan's harem are all beautiful and beautiful, most of them are women from large families, with gentle personalities. Hong Xiuquan and his concubines are singing and singing every night.
In short, after the capture of Nanjing, Hong Xiuquan established a huge harem. There were more than 200 women with the titles of empress and concubine, and there were as many as 2,000 other lowly women. In total, Hong Xiuquan had two harems. More than a thousand people, such a number is very shocking.
I think there were not so many concubines in the harems of many emperors in ancient times. It can be seen how surprising it was that there were so many concubines at that time.
What happened to the harem?
After the death of Hong Xiuquan, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement came to an end. The Qing government resolved the troubles of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which had been uprising for many years. Then, after the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, where did these concubines of Hong Xiuquan go?
Some women went to death with Hong Xiuquan, because in ancient times women had to abide by the corresponding rules, that is, after their husbands died, they had to go to death together.It is to express my loyalty to my husband.
Some women chose to support the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and took up weapons to fight. In the end, many women died in the battle. Some women were arrested by the Qing army. This is the ending of Hong Xiuquan's harem concubines.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement is a revolution we carried out spontaneously. It has a high historical significance. We have seen the fearless spirit of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the courage to fight against external forces. Although it failed in the end, it did not. It has brought us far-reaching influence, promoted the occurrence of national bourgeoisie , and promoted people's ideological progress.
Concluding remarks:
Hong Xiuquan wanted to do something in the beginning, and was supported by many people. However, Hong Xiuquan’s own personality was flawed and he was dazzled by victory after success. Having followed the old life of the Qing government, if Hong Xiuquan kept her sober at that time, I believe the Taipingtian Congress would have a different ending.
References:
"Tong Jian"
