The name of a city usually contains the culture and history of the place. A good name is often impressive.
After dynasty changes and historical changes, the names of many provinces in our country have experienced changes. Some names have been abandoned, while some names have been retained to this day.
After the establishment of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, they also carried out "major name changes" to various provinces, but the names they changed were more bizarre than the last, making people laugh and laugh.
The Taiping Rebellion
After the Opium War , conflicts in Chinese society intensified. In order to save its own power, the Qing Dynasty signed many unequal treaties with Western countries.
These treaties made the people who were already living in dire straits even more painful. In order to resist the corrupt rule of the Qing Dynasty, people all over the country revolted and fought bravely and tenaciously against it.
Among these vigorous anti-Qing and anti-imperialist movements, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement led by Hong Xiuquan, Yang Xiuqing, Feng Yunshan and others opened a new chapter in modern Chinese history.
Everything has two sides. Although the peasant rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fought bravely and often won battles, most of these peasants were illiterate and could not read a single Chinese character. Even the cultural levels of the rulers varied.
Therefore, some of the policies implemented by the Taiping Rebellion are really illogical in today's eyes, which makes people laugh.
Modify place names
For example, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established its power, it ordered to modify the names of various provinces in China.
A name can be described as a business card for a city. Its role is self-evident. A catchy name can double people's good impression of this place.
It would be fine if the place names changed by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were beautiful names with cultural heritage. However, in order to avoid the names of the rulers, they simply changed the names of these provinces randomly, which not only has no aesthetic feeling, but also has no meaning.
When Yong'an was established, Hong Xiuquan sealed six kings, including himself, namely Dong Wang Yang Xiuqing, West King Xiao Chaogui, South King Feng Yunshan, Bei Wang Wei Changhui and Wing King Shi Dakai.
According to the tradition of feudal autocracy, the names of emperors need to be taboo, but most of these are only limited to the words used by the people, not provinces.
But these kings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not think so. They felt that since they were kings, they should be unique, so they went even further. Not only did they ask the people at that time not to use the words in their names, they also changed the names of the provinces. The name of
Nan Wang Feng Yunshan is very common, and there are many provinces with these words, such as Shanxi, Shandong, Yunnan, etc.
In order to avoid his own name, Feng Yunshan ordered these provinces to be changed to Shanxi, Shandong and Yunnan. Looking at this nondescript homophonic name, the people living in these three provinces at that time must have been very speechless.
Xiao Chaogui, the king of the west, saw that the king of the south had changed, so he could not be left behind, so he changed the name of Guizhou to Guizhou . After the name was changed, the big province sounded like an unknown small place.
Moreover, the nickname of Guangxi Province at that time was "Gui", and as the origin of the Taiping Rebellion, Guangxi was regarded by the Six Kings as a feng shui treasure land blessed by God, so they worked hard and renamed Guangxi Province "Guifu Province" . Even if
has the same word, you can still understand it a little bit, but the provinces with the same pronunciation as Liuwang are not spared. For example, the "jiang" in Jiangxi and Zhejiang was changed to the "jiang" of Meng Jiangnu.
In addition, even Taiwan Province was not spared. They added a cursive prefix to the prefix "Taiwan" and became "Moss Bay".
Do you think these are the ridiculous things the Six Kings did? Of course not only that, they even renamed Tianjin Province "Zuili Province", just because Tianjin was a political center of the Qing Dynasty. The Six Kings believed that the people living here were "sinners" and should quickly surrender to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom to wash away their sins, so they gave Tianjin the title Zuili Province.
Through the strange thing of changing the name, we can see the ignorance and arrogance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's ruling class. They became complacent after achieving a little victory, and became so confused that they collapsed in the middle of the business before they started their business, and were eventually severely suppressed.
If a country wants to develop, it really cannot do without knowledge and culture. I wonder if your hometown is among the provinces renamed by the Taiping Rebellion?
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