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Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping Rebellion
The Taiping
Rebellion, also known as the Rebellion of Great Peace, was a revolt
that took place on a large scale against the authoritative forces of
the Qing Dynasty in China. The rebellion lasted from the period 1850
to 1864 by profane Christian convert Hong Xiuquan-led army and civil
administration. Hong Xiuquan launched the Heavenly Kingdom of Great
Peace with its capital in Nanjing. He had a control over the major
parts of Southern China with more than 30 million people ruled under
him. His regime was manly characterised by theocratic and
militaristic powers, consisting of various social reforms, such as
rigid gender distinction, foot binding abolition, land
socialisation, private trade eradication and the removal of
religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion for
Christianity, since Hong Xiuquan was supposedly the younger sibling
of Jesus Christ.
The areas infected by
the Taiping rebellion were always overwhelmed and pestered by Qing
army, and the rebellion was also gradually ceded by the Qing forces
in support of the French and British armies. This led to a death
toll of about 20 to 30 million people owing to the wars and its
resultant starvation. This civil war is also regarded as the one of
the deadliest conflicts in the history so far. Mao Zedong, Chinese
military and political leader, considered the Taiping rebellion as
early heroic revolutionaries as against a corrupt feudalism. The
relics of the Taiping period can be found today at the Taiping
Kingdom History Museum in the city of Nanjing.
The heavenly army of
the Taiping Rebellion is considered as one of its key strengths, for
constituting a high degree of discipline and fanaticism. Its army
used to wear a red jacket with blue trouser as their typical uniform
with long hairs, known as Chngmo in China. As compared to
the 19th century armies, the Taiping army also included a
large number of women working for them. Any war often resulted into
diffusion of heavy blood and brutal with the usage of less weapons
and small arms. The armies were able to get to the number of
somewhere between 1 million to 3 millions only by the year 1856. The
major aim of the rebellion was to consolidate their position in the
major cities and expand their presence in the surrounding cities
against imperial forces. Besides, there were numerous other pro-Taiping
groups propagating their own forces into play.
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