Talking about the uprising movement, four words should appear in everyone's mind: Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The main reason why this uprising movement was so impressive was that its nature was so indistinguishable that it is still controversial today, and that they were completely overthrown after a brief victory. Such a story full of reversals is naturally loved by people. As for whether the ideas advocated by the rebels of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom are correct and what their impact is, we may as well analyze them together.
First of all, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement dealt a certain degree of blow to the feudal dynasty. Around the 1940s, a group of God-worshipping teams appeared in front of everyone, and their development was extremely fast, and soon they were fully formed, and at this point, the Taiping Army was born. Under the leadership of Hong Xiuquan, they ran amok in the central and southern regions and took Nanjing with a single blow. In order to consolidate people's hearts, Hong Xiuquan named Nanjing the "Holy Land of Taiping" to make these believers more loyal.
The Taiping Army had such a starting point, and it was supposed to rise all the way up and successfully defeat the feudal dynasty. Who knew that they had only experienced eleven years from rise to destruction. Like other uprisings, Hong Xiuquan and others chose to carry out such an unknown activity because they could not find a breakthrough for the long-term oppression, and could only rise up to resist and try to lead the people at the bottom to overthrow the ruthless rulers. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was eventually successfully suppressed, they inflicted a huge blow on the late Qing feudal dynasty, and it is no exaggeration to say that they accelerated the speed of the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
Secondly, the time when the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occurred was relatively special. Before the advent of the Taiping Rebellion, no Western culture had been able to successfully invade China, and even had such a radical group of believers in China. At that time, the main enemy of the Central Plains Dynasty was the nomadic peoples living on the northwestern border, and the rulers focused all their attention on these nomadic peoples, but did not pay attention to the Western powers far away on the southeast coast.
It wasn't until the Western powers set foot on Chinese soil by force that they realized how big a mistake they had made. It was because of this invasion that Christianity was also successfully known, and Hong Xiuquan and others took advantage of the role of "God" to frantically expand their ranks.
The significance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is so great because it represents not only the contradiction between the people at the bottom and the rulers, but also the contradiction between China and the Western powers. Therefore, even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom failed later, it could still become a reference model for future generations, and they could gain rich experience and lessons from this movement.
Finally, the Taiping Rebellion combined reform and destruction. The positive effect of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was that they alleviated the oppression of the people at the bottom to a certain extent, giving them a certain chance to breathe. After Hong Xiuquan took power, he devoted himself to liberating all peasants, hoping to create a fairy tale world for those poor people.
The negative effect of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is naturally the destruction of society, no matter what form of uprising will inevitably provoke war, as long as there is a war, the economic level will regress, and the people will also suffer from war. Although the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was carried out vigorously, Hong Xiuquan, who came from the bottom of the family, did not realize how much harm he had caused to this land.
In general, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was the result of a combination of invasions by Western powers and oppression by feudal rulers. Today, we do not need to discuss whether it has any meaning, the law of alternating between the old and the new is irresistible, and even if there was no Taiping Heavenly Kingdom at that time, there would still be other uprisings trying to overthrow the ruthless rulers. Therefore, while criticizing the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we must also recognize the positive effects it brings. Only in this way can we be regarded as an objective and calm analysis of historical facts.