"Chang'an a moon, the sound of ten thousand households pounding clothes", "Gusu City outside the Hanshan Temple, midnight bell to the passenger ship", "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls full of amber light", Chinese civilization for five thousand years, we can often see the ancients from ancient poems to describe the scenery of various places, praise for the humanities of various places.
However, with the passage of time, many ancient city names have changed. For example, Chang'an, which was once the old name of Xi'an, means long-term peace and stability, was the first place in history to be called "Jing", and the "History" called it "the golden city of thousands of miles, the country of heaven". At the same time, Chang'an is also the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, ranking first among the four ancient capitals. However, zhu Yuanzhang later changed it to Xi'an, which means to stabilize the northwest, and has been used for more than 600 years.
There is also Murong Fu in Jin Yong's novels, who often gives him the title of Murong Gusu when he reports to his home, and Gusu sounds like a more beautiful place. After changing to Suzhou, although it is normal, it does not lose its beauty. Later, Luzhou was gone and changed to Hefei; Jiuyuan was gone, becoming Baotou; Lanling became Zaozhuang, and Langya became Linyi.
If you can still accept all this, then the renaming of the provinces during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom will laugh off your big teeth and bluntly say that it is too strange.
Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, were both from the peasant class, and Hong Xiuquan was more cultured than Zhu Yuanzhang, and had taken the imperial examination many times, but both were named Luosun Mountain. Perhaps all this buried in his heart a dissatisfaction with the rulers of the time.
Later, in Guiping County, Guangxi, Hong Xiuquan dragged his cousin Feng Yunshan, his brother Hong Renjiu, and some like-minded people to launch the Jintian Uprising, and later the ranks became larger and larger, and Hong Xiuquan became the King of Taiping, and later changed his name to Heavenly King.
As the saying goes, it is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country. Zhu Yuanzhang held Jiangshan for 276 years, while Hong Xiuquan, like Li Zicheng, although he laid down Jiangshan, did not hold it. When fighting the country, there was only one purpose, that is, to establish a dynasty, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also conquered more than 600 cities in its glory. However, when the dynasty was established, it evolved into a political struggle, people's hearts were scattered, every day they thought about it was a conspiracy, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom only lasted for 14 years.
However, at the beginning of its establishment, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also carried out a series of drastic reforms, proposing that there was land and farming, food and food, clothing and clothing, and money and envoys, but it was too idealistic and did not take shape in the end.
Hong Renjie lived in Hong Kong for many years, came into contact with the advanced capitalist system in the West, and also wrote a modern program such as the "New Chapter of Senior Administration", which should be said to be an ideologically advanced young man, but it is still inevitable to fall into the cliché, such as his renaming of the provinces across the country.
China's feudal thinking for thousands of years has always believed that it is necessary to avoid the name of the emperor, and when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was somewhat inflated, not only the name should avoid the name of the king, but even the names of places in various places should be avoided.
The first thing to avoid is the name of the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan and these five kings of the southeast, southwest, and northwest wings, and some special words should also be avoided. For example, words like "dragon, master, lord, king" should also be avoided. In the territory of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hong Xiuquan did not allow anyone with the surname of Hong, so they had to change their surname to "Tong". There was an Anhui man named Hong Ronghai, who had to change his surname to Tong when he joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and later surrendered to the Qing army, and the first thing he did was to change back to his surname.
Even Hong Xiuquan's cousin prince's family was not spared, the Wang surname has been a large population surname since ancient times, but Hong Xiuquan did not allow the people to use the word "Wang", so he had to change his surname to "Huang" or "Wang", and there was no longer a Wang surname in the vast Taiping Heavenly Kingdom rule.
In addition to the avoidance in the name, Hong Renjie's change of names to the provinces is the most unacceptable. At that time, Hong Xiu's full name was Nanjing at the time of the emperor, because there was a heavenly king, so it was renamed Tianjing, which means "Heavenly Kingdom Beijing Division". The meaning is already obvious, directly against the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, Fengtian Province became "Fengtian", and I didn't know what to add.
Feng Yunshan, the king of the South, in order to avoid "clouds", changed yunnan province south of Caiyun to Yunnan province, and "yun" means rapeseed or weeding, how to feel a smell of grass. Of course, "Shan" should also be avoided, so Shanxi and Shandong Provinces cannot use the current word, and have changed to "Shanxi" and "Shandong". What do you think of the Taihang Mountains, is it that the majestic mountains have become corals on the bottom of the sea in the blink of an eye? It was a bit of a gibberish.
The Western King Xiao Chaogui avoided "Gui", Guizhou Province was changed to "Guizhou", and people who did not know thought that they had arrived in Guangxi. The southeast of Suzhou was changed to Sufu Province, and there is a Guifu Province that still does not know which one is talking about.
Also suffering from the "poisonous hands" are Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Xinjiang, who do not know what taboos they have committed, and have changed it to "Zhejiang Jiang, Jiang Xi, and New Ginger". It may also be influenced by Western open-mindedness and forget the connotation of traditional Chinese culture, but you don't have to say, it is quite grounded. And the change of Heilongjiang to "Oolong River" is really enough.
However, the most ruthless change was the Beijing-Tianjin region closest to the Qing Dynasty, which was directly changed to a province under the jurisdiction of the Qing Dynasty, of course, which also included most of Hebei and a small part of Henan and Shandong. Perhaps in the eyes of the victors, this is the center of the previous dynasty, so it is the loser. As the capital of the province, Tianjin naturally had to change, and to avoid the word "tian", it became "TimJin".
This chaotic change, it is estimated that they are confused, this is the end of the expansion, in fact, they only occupy half of the Jiangnan, do not know what their surname is, which is also one of the reasons for their failure. It is said that before the fall of Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan had a total of more than 2,700 kings, all of whom were leaders, and who else was the leader!