We all know that in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there was an uprising that established a regime, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the capital tianjing (Nanjing). In the history textbooks of junior high school, we have learned that Hong Xiuquan, the founder of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, proclaimed himself "Heavenly King" through "divine power", and had a relationship with the Western "God" with his own face, and later there was "Heavenly Father" Yang Xiuqing, "Heavenly Brother" Xiao Chaogui, it was such a group of people who relied on the "Western Imported Religion" to found the "Worship god religion", for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom established by Hong Xiuquan and others, So Shijun felt that it was a group of depressed people, "fooling" the people to overthrow the Qing Dynasty together, even Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, they could not compare.
1. The Kingdom of Heaven is established
At first, we all thought that the main backbone of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was Hong Xiuquan, but in fact, many of the things that were first worshipped by God were not taken care of by Hong Xiuquan, but by Feng Yunshan.
If we just look at the introduction in the textbook, we will always think that Hong Xiuquan is an "anti-Qing fighter" and that saving the people from the depths of the water is a big hero, and if you really go through the historical data, you will find that Hong Xiuquan is not what we think.
Hong Xiuquan was depressed because he couldn't pass the imperial examination, and later Hong Xiuquan thought, since I can't go on my career path, I will go preaching.
At the beginning of Hong Xiuquan's preaching, he pulled his brother Hong Renxuan and his friend Feng Yunshan, carefully check the information and you will find that these three people are all "fallen students", three stinky cobblers, top one Zhuge Liang, these three people's examination did not go through, naturally wanted to open up a new road, Hong Xiuquan was responsible for the spiritual leadership of the "Worship of God Religion", that is, to establish a visible faith for everyone, Feng Yunshan was responsible for expanding the downline, Xiao Chaogui and others were recruited by Feng Yunshan, so Hong Xiuquan established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. A large part of the reason is that Feng Yunshan operated behind.
2. Heavenly Father and Heavenly Brother
We said earlier that the "Heavenly Father" is actually Yang Xiuqing, and the "Heavenly Brother" is Xiao Chaogui, let's first look at this "Heavenly Father", as mentioned earlier, the main backbone of the Worship of God Sect is Hong Xiuquan, the real plotter is Feng Yunshan, without Feng Yunshan, there would be no future "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", and when Feng Yunshan was arrested by the government for some reasons, Hong Xiuquan went to the rescue. Feng Yunshan was arrested, and as soon as Hong Xiuquan left, the entire "Worship god cult" had no main backbone.
In order to appease people's hearts, Yang Xiuqing decided to use the "lowering" technique circulated by the Hakka in Guangxi at that time, which is what we often call "asking so-and-so gods to go up" and so on.
Yang Xiuqing also understands the cohesion of "lowering the servant", in the early years, Hong Xiuquan relied on dreaming, setting up WeChat, in order to make the Heavenly Father God spread all rumors, attracting the attention of everyone, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Uprising recorded that Yang Xiuqing suddenly became mute, could not speak for two months, and the congregation felt strange, thinking that it was an ominous omen.
The Book of Heavenly Love says: "The Heavenly King has been sent to be born, to Allah for the world and save the world from drowning." The world does not yet know to worship the Heavenly Father, and does not know where the Allah is, but still rebels against the Heavenly Father, and it is reasonable to send down the plague and die of disease, and the Heavenly Father is merciful and does not tolerate the mortal people to die of disease, so he sends the Eastern King to the world to redeem him. ”
At first, Hong Xiuquan thought that Yang Xiuqing had broken the siege for himself, but as Yang Xiuqing's "Heavenly Father" went down more and more times, the power of the "Heavenly King" was reduced, which was also a reason why the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would later have infighting.
Two leaders appeared side by side in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, one was Hong Xiuquan, who had no real power and was really a fictitious one, and the other was Yang Xiuqing, the most noble image of the whole army and the whole people. Because his religious status was higher than that of Hong Xiuquan, he could command and dispatch everything in the country, which was beyond hong xiuquan and even Feng Yunshan's later expectations.
Later, watching Yang Xiuqing play "role play", Xiao Chaogui couldn't sit still, so he played the role of "Heavenly Brother", and the management of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of "Heavenly King", "Heavenly Father" and "Heavenly Brother" was chaotic, how could such management achieve a great cause?
Third, Tianmei
Our textbooks mention "Heavenly Father" and "Heavenly Brother", but we do not mention "Heavenly Sister", in fact, there is this person in the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
When it comes to "Heavenly Sister", we have to mention Xiao Chaogui, and when Hong Xiuquan first met Xiao Chaogui, he also knew Xiao Chaogui's wife Yang Xuanjiao.
Yang Xuanjiao, who was also a peasant woman in Guangxi, only later married Xiao Chaogui, but at that time Yang Xiuqing did not have a wife, and someone also made up Yang Xiuqing and her daytime communication J, and was caught in bed. Yang Xiuqing immediately used the excuse of being a brother and sister to share a bed with his father. (It seems that this "divine power" is good, and the ancients fooled people with this "god saying" but it was a hundred trials and tribulations.) ）
And how did Yang Xuanjiao become a "heavenly sister"?
That is, Hong Xiuquan was telling Xiao Chaogui the story of his dream of seeing God, and Yang Xuanjiao was next to Easter Island at that time, saying that Mr. Yuan had a serious illness and dreamed of an old man... This is to supplement Hong Xiuquan!
The three became tigers, and the surrounding people were so "fooled", that is, because Yang Xuanjiao "saw God" her identity was particularly noble. It is said that Hong Xiuquan was known as "Heavenly Sister" because she had the same dream, saw God together, and was a child of God, so that she could form brothers and sisters among mortals.