You will understand from the private life of the leader Hong Xiuquan. After he just won a little victory, he indulged in pleasure, selected concubines on a large scale, and even made many requirements. Not only did he need to be beautiful, but there was also a rule that women cou

At the end of the late Qing Dynasty, it was a period full of turmoil. People from all walks of life rebelled one after another. The most famous one was the Taiping Rebellion , but this regime did not last long. Why is this?

You will understand from the private life of the leader Hong Xiuquan . After just winning a little victory, he indulged in pleasure, selected concubines arbitrarily, and even made many requirements. Not only did he require beautiful appearance, but there was also a rule that women could not accept.

China was trapped in a difficult situation, but God should be worshiped after all.

In 1840, the Opium War broke out, and the Qing government resisted to no avail. Finally, the "Treaty of Nanjing" was signed in 2 years. The signing of this unequal treaty has something to do with the strength of the great powers, and even more to do with the corruption of officials in the Qing government.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, corrupt officials were rampant and exploited the people. The social classes were even more solidified and there was little mobility. It was difficult for a poor family to have a noble son. Repeated failures in the imperial examinations often happened. Hong Xiuquan was trapped in this situation. situation.

He has been committed to taking the imperial examination, hoping to become an official and change his family life. But after his short-lived appearance in the county examination, he failed to pass the examination again. In anger, he decided not to take the exam.

In the midst of confusion, he read "Good Words to Encourage the World" and was inspired by the Christian teachings in it. He came up with the concept of belief in God and the equality of all people. He therefore abandoned the Four Books and the Five Classics and the Confucian and Mencius books, and founded He founded the "God Worship Religion" and began to preach.

This missionary activity allowed Hong Xiuquan to complete the original manpower accumulation for the uprising. In 1847, Hong Xiuquan and his followers smashed temples and statues in Xiangzhou, challenging the feudal tradition. In 1851, they came again He went to Jintian, Guangxi and launched a peasant uprising, aiming to establish a society where "everyone is equal" and overthrow the decadent rule of the Qing Dynasty.

The representatives of this uprising were the peasant class, so many farmers who had been living in poverty for a long time participated in the uprising, such as Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and others, and their morale was also very high. A temporarily formed peasant army defeated the Qing Dynasty and retreated steadily, changing its generals over and over again.

The internal construction of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom army, which continued to win along the way, also became more perfect. Hong Xiuquan moved into Nanjing in 1853, which is also known as Tianjing in history. Here, he promulgated the famous "Chinese Land Acre System" , and in the following more than ten years, the peasant resistance war spread to most of China.

However, this anti-Qing and anti-invasion struggle ultimately failed. In the end, Hong Xiuquan was beaten by the Qing army until he ran out of food and could only survive by eating grass roots. Eventually, he became ill and died early.

This failure was certainly due to the strength of the regular Qing army. On the other hand, the bigger reason was that after Hong Xiuquan achieved some achievements, he indulged in pleasure and eventually failed to make progress, which led to the failure of the Taiping Rebellion. And he proclaimed himself emperor, and his inclusion in the harem is a typical example.

Luxurious food and clothing, emerald eyebrows and red cheeks, rape

After Hong Xiuquan attacked Tianjing, he couldn't curl up and became emperor. And he began to show off his style, and made a lot of kings, and made more than 2,000 kings successively. At the same time, he lived extremely extravagantly, and he also began to draft girls and formulated a series of requirements.

This first day is about appearance. Everyone loves beauty, and Hong Xiuquan is no exception. Naturally, in his jurisdiction, all good-looking women will come. The second point of

is to make equal to . Although he was once a farmer, he is now a king, and he may become the master of the entire world in the future. Naturally, those commoner women who were worthy of him can no longer stand by his side, so must be from aristocratic families. Women, this might be able to win over the influence of aristocratic families and increase their own strength.

The third one is women need to be virgins. There seems to be no problem with this rule of , but it was reasonable at the time, but it seems very unreasonable now.If a man has three wives and four concubines, he is a romantic, and if a woman does not have a virginity, she is unclean, and she still has strict feudal ethics.

So it seems that when Hong Xiuquan made his fortune, he carried advanced Western ideas, such as "everyone is equal", but when it came to accepting concubines, he still had certain limitations of feudal consciousness. Of course, this is only one aspect. His biggest feudal consciousness is that after he has a certain career, he still starts to become king and indulge in pleasure like the emperors in the past.

You must know that many emperors in history still restrained themselves after achieving great achievements. For example, Liu Bang, who was criticized by everyone, after becoming the emperor, he personally went to the Northern Expedition the Huns . Hong Xiuquan obviously did not have such awareness, so the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Movement failed.

Conclusion

Hong Xiuquan, as the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom , was originally expected by the public. Finally, a class representing the interests of farmers emerged. Moreover, he did make many bold moves in the early stage to improve the interests of farmers and shaken the feudal rule. When people thought that he would continue to drastically change the dynasty, he could not change his bad nature. He became obsessed with his own small achievements and did not want to make progress. He squandered money and expanded the harem. His posture seemed to surpass the standards of those emperors. So the situation soon turned around, and he himself died of illness, and the sensational Tianping Heavenly Kingdom movement failed.

In fact, Hong Xiuquan’s energy is equivalent to playing a game and clearing the dungeon. How can he reach the end if he is overwhelmed by the little equipment along the way?

The same goes for doing things. If you don’t restrain yourself and become complacent about your achievements halfway through, start to relax and enjoy yourself, then you will stop moving forward, and you will never reach the end, and you will never succeed. . Therefore, when doing many things, especially when doing something big, you must have the mindset of first suffering and then sweetness, or enjoying the results until the end, so that the probability of failure will be much smaller.

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