We know that there have been many revolutionary movements in modern Chinese history, each of which has its own significance, taking the Xinhai Revolution as an example, which successfully overthrew more than 2,000 years of feudal society, liberated people's minds, and to a certain extent promoted the reform of Chinese society, which has a profound historical impact.
Looking back, the backwardness and weakness of the Qing Dynasty, coupled with the crazy invasion of foreign powers, handicraft industry and agriculture could not be developed, resulting in the people's life being miserable, under the pressure of hunger and cold and the continuous exploitation of the landlords, the vast number of peasants decided to rise up and launched a huge movement, that is, the famous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in history.
In fact, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was not just a simple peasant uprising, it was also a movement with the nature of an old class revolution, and some experts felt that this movement could be regarded as the beginning of the old democratic revolution in China's modern history. At that time, the promulgation of the "Field And Acre System" pushed the egalitarian ideas of the peasants to the extreme, which in turn influenced and inspired the broad masses of the people, and in short, this movement was the largest peasant uprising in history for thousands of years.
After fourteen years, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement has continuously expanded its power, dealt a fierce blow to the feudal rule of the Qing Dynasty and foreign invaders, accelerated the end of feudal society, and effectively prevented China from embarking on the road of colonization. It has left a strong mark in China, but does this mean that it only has a positive meaning, not a negative meaning?
In fact, there has always been a great controversy in the evaluation of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the early stage was indeed developing in a good direction, but in the end, it became more and more bizarre, and even greatly violated the original intention. During this period, there were also several very strange events, and perhaps it was precisely because of this that the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement would fail, and its end was inevitable.
First of all, there are male barracks and female barracks in the army, and it is inevitable that there will be some exchanges between each other, which is a normal phenomenon, and nothing will be said. But then it suddenly changed, and the men's and women's halls were built separately, so that men and women in the army could live separately, even ordinary people had to do this, and what was even more bizarre was that no relationship could live together, such as mother and son, father and daughter, husband and wife, etc. were not allowed.
Secondly, Hong Xiuquan sealed nearly a thousand princes before and after, they can choose women at will to supplement their harem, very absurd and depraved, Hong Xiuquan's own harem concubines up to more than two thousand people, too many people can not remember and do not get the title, direct number. It also requires that the subordinate officials must sacrifice beautiful women every 3 months, otherwise they will be killed.
In addition, Hong Xiuquan, who called himself "God", stipulated at that time that all people could only celebrate these two festivals, one was the Dengji Festival and the other was the Baoye Festival, both of which were strange requests to satisfy Hong Xiuquan's own wishes. Such a Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, fortunately, did not succeed. Otherwise the people will suffer even more.