"Chaos is ruled by the pole, darkness is light, and the way of heaven is also." ——Hong Xiuquan, "The Awakening of the Original Path"
Speaking of Hong Xiuquan, many people will think of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, in the early days of the uprising, the Qing government can be described as busy, and Hong Xiuquan took advantage of this time to quickly develop his own power.
However, because of the serious internal and external troubles in taiping, the reform movement ended in failure. It is reported that at that time, 30,000 remnants left China, and now that more than a hundred years have passed, do you know how these people are? Where did they flee?
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement
After the end of the Opium War, the Western powers coerced China into signing many unequal treaties. These treaties have created very visible pressure on the people to live.
In the face of the Qing government's wanton expropriation and tyranny, the civilians, who had a very difficult life, fell into an even more terrible disaster. In order to rebel against the Qing court, the peasants rose up one after another.
It is reported that in the decade after the end of the Opium War, there were hundreds of anti-Qing uprisings in China. As a multi-ethnic settlement, Guangxi was faced with increasingly excessive treatment by the Qing court.
The people joined Hong Xiuquan's camp and launched a large-scale Taiping National Uprising in 1851. This uprising did have a certain impact on the Qing court.
However, over time, the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Tianjing, fell in 1864, and the movement ended in utter failure. After the failure of the Taiping Rebellion, Li Shixian's troops led more than 200,000 of his men to flee.
Due to the encirclement and suppression of the Qing court and foreigners, Li Shixian's troops were seriously reduced, and in order to survive, Li Shixian led the people across the ocean to the present-day Chilean city of Iquique.
Iquique, Chile
The city is located in the north of Chile and is the capital of the Tarapacá region. As a seaport city, Iquique is bordered by the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Akatama Desert to the east.
Its presence has greatly contributed to Chile's economic development and trade sales. It is also worth mentioning that Iquique is also a very famous tourist city, which has a climatic condition that combines desert and ocean.
For those who wish to better feel the beach and the ocean, Iquique is undoubtedly a good place to go. It should be noted that the maximum temperature here in summer is only 27 °C, and the minimum temperature in winter is also about 13 °C.
In addition to the average tourist, Iquique attracts a large number of extreme sports enthusiasts, who carry out their various extreme challenges here.
Chinese development
Here let's turn the topic back to Lee Se-hyun's troops. At that time, the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom that arrived in Iquique city were actually only more than 30,000 people.
After they accepted the invitation of the Kingdom of Chile, they became a famous "brown army" in the history of chile, and because of their outstanding performance in the attack on Mokegua, Chile decided to give them Iquique after the end of the war.
It is precisely because of this that Li Shixian's troops were able to stay in Chile smoothly. Now, more than 100 years have passed since they left for Chile, and after several generations of multiplication, the remnants of Li Shixian and their descendants have been completely integrated into Chilean life.
And now there are a total of 200,000 Chinese living in the city. They still retain the habits of the Chinese in their daily lives, and even highlight the Chinese culture in some buildings and art decorations.
On December 15, 1970, China and Chile formally established diplomatic relations, and later, with the continuous development of China, Chilean Iquique also signed a contract with Nanning, Guangxi, China as a sister city.
Since then, when many Chinese people travel abroad, they will also go to Iquique, Chile, to see what kind of life is now being lived by those who have deep ties with China.
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