The significance of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement;

1 accelerated the decline and collapse of the Qing Dynasty and even the whole feudal system.

2. A large-scale armed struggle was waged against foreign invaders, which quickly broke the western invaders' attempt to colonize China.

3. Compared with previous peasant wars, it is better ideologically and organizationally, and it is the highest peak of peasant wars for thousands of years.

4. The leaders of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also advocated trade with other countries, and later put forward the first plan to develop capitalism in China.

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Background of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement:

After the Opium War, China began to become a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. With the help of a series of unequal treaties such as treaty of nanking, western powers invaded China politically and economically.

In order to pay up to 28 million yuan in war reparations and urban redemption fees, and make up for the fiscal deficit caused by a large number of imported opium (the average annual outflow of Daoguang was 65.438+10 million silver in 27-28 years), the Qing government stepped up the collection and increased the tax revenue by more than 1 to 3 times.

At the same time, a large number of foreign industrial products were dumped, which destroyed the handicraft industry in urban and rural areas of China, and farmers and craftsmen went bankrupt one after another. The landlord class seized the opportunity to annex land and aggravated exploitation.

The intensification of ethnic contradictions has promoted the intensification of domestic class contradictions, and farmers are hungry and cold, and they have risen up. In the ten years after the Opium War, people of all ethnic groups spontaneously rebelled against the Qing Dynasty 100 many times.

Guangxi is a multi-ethnic area, and the rulers of the Qing Dynasty were very harsh on the ethnic oppression and class exploitation of the majority of ethnic minorities. In addition to natural and man-made disasters, the vast number of farmers are suffering, and resistance struggles have broken out one after another. Finally, a large-scale peasant uprising led by Hong Xiuquan broke out at the end of Daoguang 30 years.

The result of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement:

1June, 864, Hong Xiuquan died of illness, and the young king Tianguifu Hong succeeded to the throne. On July 1864 and 19, the Xiang army collapsed 10-foot wall near the Taiping Gate in Tianjing and swarmed into the city. Xiang troops from other directions also entered the ladder. The Taiping rebels in the city either died or set themselves on fire, and no one surrendered.

The fall of Tianjing marked the failure of the peasant war in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops scattered in the north and south battlefields of the Yangtze River still fought bravely and tenaciously against the attack of the Qing army.

After the capital of Tianjing was broken, Li Xiucheng broke out with the young king and soon separated. 1864 On July 22nd, Li Xiucheng was captured and killed on August 7th. The young king met Hong Rengan in Dongba, Jiangsu, and entered Jiangxi via Zhejiang. He was captured in June+10 in 5438 and killed in Nanchang in June +065438+10 in 65438. ?

The Taiping Army led by Wang Shi, Li Shixian and Kang Wang, Wang Haiyang, moved to Jiangxi, Fujian and Guangdong in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and southern Anhui, and was finally defeated by the Qing army in Jiayingfu (Meizhou), Guangdong in February 1866. ?

On their way back to Tianjing, Taiping Army and Lai, who were on an expedition to Shaanxi, were defeated by the Qing army in Hubei and Anhui on June 1864+0 1, and the rest were led by Lai, who co-edited with the Nian army and persisted in the anti-Qing struggle to 1868.

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