The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom existed for 14 years, it reached the peak of the old-style peasant war, but also an unprecedented peasant war in the history of the world, the confrontation between the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Qing Court was also very fierce, because the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not shave its hair, did not braid, and spread its head, so the Qing Court scorned it as "long-haired body thief", "hair thief", etc., and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not want to show weakness, scornfully called the Qing Court "Qing Demon", "Hu Demon" and so on.
As we all know, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was a peasant regime, and Hong Xiuquan, who founded the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, claimed to be the second son of God and the younger brother of the Savior Jesus, and was called "Heavenly King" after the founding of the country. In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a very small number of people have read books, and it is very rare to say "Zhi Hu Zhi Ye" at a time, and the modern Chinese character simplification movement first occurred in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
In order to improve everyone's literacy rate, the jade seals and official documents of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are written in simplified form, in addition, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has also "greatly renamed" the provinces, one is more than one strange, I am afraid that you can't stop laughing.
Shandong and Shanxi were renamed Shandong and Shanxi, and it was extremely common to avoid secrets in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so the names of Feng Yunshan, the king of the South, had the words "Yun" and "Mountain", so Shandong and Shanxi changed their names, and Yunnan was also renamed "Yunnan".
And because the name of The Western King Xiao Chaogui has the word "Gui", so Guizhou was renamed "Guizhou", in addition, Guangxi Province was also renamed "Guifu Province", from this name, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a special affection for Guangxi, which also stems from Hong Xiuquan's origins in that year, it was in Guangxi Guiping that established the "Worship god Society", the earliest batch of people who responded to Hong Xiuquan are also Guangxi people, the Western King Xiao Chaogui, the Eastern King Yang Xiuqing, the Northern King Wei Changhui, the Wing King Shi Dakai and others were born in Guangxi.
The word "Guifu" means that it is hoped that the heavens will always bless them with glory and tengda; the three provinces of Xinjiang, Zhejiang and Jiangxi have been renamed As New Jiang, Zhejiang Jiang and Jiang Xi.
In the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom promulgated the "King Ding Respect and Avoidance Words", it is clearly stipulated that 12 characters are banned, and 57 characters are avoided, according to the types, the words avoided by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom can be divided into religious avoidance words, superstitious avoidance words, feudal avoidance words and malicious avoidance words.
Among them, the superstitious and taboo words are "bad, injured, disabled" and other words, together with the sound words can not be said, said unlucky; religious avoidance words, such as "big brother", which is a common name today, but in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom called "big brother", facing the head killing.
A copy of the Heavenly King's edict that has been preserved to this day says: "The big brother of the world is the only one, the heavenly brother Jesus is also, the heavenly brother Jesus and some people outside call the big brother, on the heavenly law should pass through the clouds and snow also." ”
Although Hong Xiuquan has his own brother Hong Renfa, he can only call Hong Renfa "the eldest brother". Nowadays, when we look at what Hong Xiuquan said about "Heavenly Father", "Zhengyue Palace", and the children of "Zhengyue Palace", I know at a glance that it is nonsense, but at that time, Hong Xiuquan consolidated his position with this series of operations.
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was also very powerful in the early stages, but in the end, it could not escape the situation of pleasure and the proliferation of internal contradictions.
And the malicious avoidance word is to clearly oppose the emperor, the emperor does not like them to respect, the emperor likes them resolutely resist.
The last place to change its name, Tianjin, because Tianjin is close to Beijing, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, Tianjin was used as the residence of the viceroy directly under the jurisdiction, so the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom changed the name of "Tianjin" to "Sin Li", which has a great derogatory meaning.