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Who initiated the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement? What is its purpose? What is the main content? Time?
The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was launched by Hong Xiuquan with many purposes, but the most direct purpose was to overthrow the rule of the Qing government. The time was from the first year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty to the third year of Tongzhi (185 1 year-1864).

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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 to make up for the fiscal deficit caused by a large number of opium imports, the Qing government increased the intensity of tax collection. The peasants were hungry and cold, and they rose up in succession. Finally, a large-scale peasant uprising led by Hong Xiuquan broke out at the end of 30 years in Daoguang.

1844 (twenty-four years of Qing Daoguang), Hong Xiuquan and Feng Yunshan preached in Guangxi and secretly carried out anti-Qing activities. /kloc-in the summer of 0/850, Hong Xiuquan issued a general mobilization order, calling on all local believers to "organize a camp" in Jintian Village, Guiping. 185 1 year 1 month 1 1 day, Hong Xiuquan gathered more than 20,000 people in Jintian Village, Guangxi Province to formally declare the uprising and establish the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, with Yang, Feng Yunshan, Xiao Chaogui, Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai as the leading core.

jintian uprising

After the rebel army went north, it entered Hunan and Hubei from Guangxi, occupied Nanjing on 1853, made its capital and renamed Tianjing. After that, it had a long-term tug-of-war with the Qing government. 1In July, 864, Hong Xiuquan died, Nanjing was captured by the Qing army, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement basically ended. The remnants fought in various places until 1868.

Taiping rebellion

The Taiping Revolution is the biggest peasant revolution in the history of China. From 185 1, * * persisted to 14, and its influence expanded to 17 province, which effectively attacked the feudal rule and foreign aggression in the Qing Dynasty, promoted the collapse of feudal society, stopped the process of China's colonization, and left an extremely important page in the history of China.