People's evaluation of the Taiping Rebellion uprising has always been different. This is normal. Everyone has different knowledge angles and different opinions. On whether the Taiping Rebellion is a historical process or purely a disaster, it can be mainly From two perspectives, one is what kind of court it is opposed to, and the other is its influence on the subsequent political situation.
First of all, what kind of court does the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom resist? We must also start with the reasons why the changes in the late Qing Dynasty could not be truly realized. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, we all know that Japan and Russia were also behind in the same period. But Japan and Russia both thrived in changes, but the Qing Dynasty did not. In fact, this is closely related to the Manchu government. During the Ming Dynasty, China's firearms did not lag behind the West, but by the Manchu Dynasty, it had plummeted.
This is also because the Manchu and Qing dynasty was achieved through horse riding and archery, and its confidence in force came from riding and archery. If you tell them about guns and other areas they are not good at, they can't afford to play with you. What confidence can they keep? Simply put, don’t play with firearms. Apart from horse-riding shooting, can your farming people also play horse-riding and archery of nomads?
This is true in the military, and it is the same in politics and ideology. The essence of "shave hair and change clothes" and "literal prison" is to destroy the national confidence and spiritual will of the Han people. In this way, for the Manchu dynasty, the problem was not how or how deep the country was eroded, but rather worrying that any changes or progress in the country would bring a series of uncertain factors, thus depriving them of control over the country.
The Manchus are regarded as the conquerors of China and are not eroded by the Han culture. Therefore, it is not surprising that words such as "measure China's material resources and the level of civilization of the country". Therefore, since the establishment of the complacent Qing government , it has decided to limit China's progress and development. Until the Manchu government stepped into the coffin,It is also continuing to build a "Royal Chamber".
Second, the influence of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom on future generations. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed in the end, it severely shook the foundation of Manchu rule. The Manchu government had to rely on and Han officials to continue to rule. From then on, the Han rulers began to control the local government. Real power, and set off the " Westernization Movement" locally, and at the same time, the Chinese nation, which was castrated by the Manchu dynasty for a long time, began to awaken and rebuild the country's confidence.
Just two months after the Revolution of 1911, 15 provinces declared independence from the Qing government, and the Manchus were forced to withdraw from the stage of history. This has the profound influence of the Taiping Rebellion, that is to say, without the Taiping Rebellion, the Han people would not be so easy to grasp the local power. If the rulers of the Han Dynasty could not control the real local power, then there would be no downfall of the Manchu government during the Revolution of 1911.
This is the subjective and objective progress of the Taiping Rebellion. Some people attribute the losses caused by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom army, calling it an evil religion. This is unfair. The Taiping Heavenly Army was indeed organized in the form of "jumping" in the early days. However, it should be understood that this is still an era in which the wisdom of the people has not yet opened up. "Jumping God" is not the original version of the Taiping Army, but the belief of the people at that time. The Taiping Army was only temporarily used. It cannot be regarded as an evil religion.
The Boxer Movement thirty years later and the ten-year catastrophe more than a hundred years later, compared with the Taiping Army, the Taiping Army’s early "jumping" is easy to understand. In fact, the power holders who held the power of the Taiping Army were all enlightened. After the capture of Tianjing, they opened imperial examinations and opened women's subjects, and the country was completely renewed. These can show that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only used "jumping gods" instead of indulging in them. .
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