Hong Xuanjiao, whose original name was Yang Yunjiao, was the righteous sister of Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King. Yang Yunjiao claimed that in 1837 (the seventeenth year of Daoguang), her soul ascended to heaven, and she met an old blond man who told her, "Ten years later, someone came from the East to teach Ru and others to worship God." In 1847, Hong Xiuquan came to Guangxi to found the Worship of God Sect, claiming to be the second son of the Heavenly Father, and regarded Yang Yunjiao, who was received by the "Heavenly Father", as a righteous sister, and called the sixth daughter of the Heavenly Father and changed her name to Hong Xuanjiao.
It is said that Hong Xuanjiao was beautiful in appearance and beautiful in Chuchu, and was recognized as a great beauty in the worship of God, and Hong Xiuquan promised her to Xiao Chaogui, the Western King, so she was also known as the Western King Niang or Xiao Wangniang. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom advocated equality between men and women, and at the beginning of the uprising, it issued a military order to "divide male camps and female camps", strictly prohibiting husband and wife from sleeping together.
Hong Xuanjiao was appointed as the commander of the female battalion and became a hero of the storm. In December 1852, when Xiao Chaogui attacked the hunan provincial capital of Changsha, he was hit in the chest by a shell and died at the age of 32, and Hong Xuanjiao became a widow ever since.
After the establishment of the capital Tianjing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom divided hundreds of thousands of people in Nanjing into the men's camp and women's camp, and the women's camp was renamed the women's pavilion. The Heavenly King enfeoffed Hong Xuanjiao as the Minister of Grace and was responsible for the affairs of the women's pavilion. During the Tianjing Incident, Wei Changhui, the King of the North, went on a killing spree, killing Yang Xiuqing and his family, bodyguards, and generals totaling more than 20,000 people, causing The Wing King Shi Dakai to start an army campaign against Anqing.
In order to appease the anger of the people, Hong Xiuquan issued an edict condemning Wei Changhui: "Er, I am not the King of the East, I have no intention of killing him, but now that I have taken it, his subordinate He Gu has killed him as much as he can, and he should remember the good heart of the Heavenly Father, and it is advisable to be lenient." Wei Changhui was annoyed and angry, and shouted, "I have done great harm to qu, and now I blame me, and I want to sell my name", so he led his troops to attack the Heavenly King's Palace. Hong Xuanjiao led the loyal Andi Touhou to defend the Heavenly King, and the Hakka female soldiers showed their might and defeated the rebels, and Wei Changhui was defeated and retreated to the Northern Palace, disguised as a civilian, and wanted to go out of the city and was captured by the patrol. Hong Xiuquan tortured Wei Changhui with five horses and sent the first rank to shi dakai camp for examination.
Hong Xuanjiao made great contributions to the neutrality of the Tianjing Incident, and won the trust of Hong Xiuquan, the Heavenly King, and entrusted her with the heavy responsibility of defending the Heavenly King's Palace. On July 19, 1864, the Xiang army attacked Tianjing and besieged the Tianwang Palace, and Hong Xuanjiao led the remnants to set themselves on fire in front of the TianwangFu, staging a legend that can be sung and wept.