Hong Xiuquan - Wikipedia
Hong Xiuquan [b] (1 January 1814 [a] – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu [c] and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty.
Hong Xiuquan | Chinese Prophet, Taiping Rebellion Leader
Jan 1, 2025 · Hong Xiuquan was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64), during which he declared his own new dynasty, which centred on the captured (1853) city of Nanjing. This great upheaval, in which more than 20,000,000 people are said to have been killed, drastically altered
Hong Xiuquan: The rebel who thought he was Jesus's brother
Oct 17, 2012 · Hong Xiuquan, who led the 19th Century Taiping rebellion, showed Communists a peasant uprising was still possible in the modern age.
Hong Xiuquan Biography - Facts, Childhood, Family Life
Hong Xiuquan was a Chinese religious prophet and revolutionary, who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing Dynasty. He had established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over several parts of southern China, over whom he ruled as the ‘Heavenly King’.
Taiping Rebellion: Causes, Definition & Death Toll | HISTORY
Feb 22, 2018 · The Taiping forces were run as a cult-like group called the God Worshipping Society by self-proclaimed prophet Hong Xiuquan, and resulted in the rebels seizing the city of Nanjing for a decade.
Hong Xiuquan summary | Britannica
Hong Xiuquan , or Hung Hsiu-ch’üan , (born Jan. 1, 1814, Fuyuanshui, Guangdong, China—died June 1, 1864, Nanjing), Chinese religious prophet, leader of the Taiping Rebellion (1850–64).
Taiping Rebellion - Wikipedia
The uprising was led by Hong Xiuquan, an ethnic Hakka who had proclaimed himself to be the brother of Jesus Christ. Hong sought the religious conversion of the Han people to his syncretic version of Christianity, as well as the political overthrow of the Qing dynasty, and a general transformation of the mechanisms of state.
Hong Xiuquan - New World Encyclopedia
Raised and educated as a Confucianist, Hong failed the civil service examinations four times. In 1837, during an illness, Hong had a religious vision, in which a man with a golden beard told him to purify the land of evil, and a middle-aged man instructed him on exterminating demons.
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Hong Xiuquan always wanted to be a scholar. From a young age, his rural family had sacrificed to give him the chance to study. And within a few years, he could recite many of the classic Chinese texts from memory.
Hong Xiuquan | BDCC
An attempt by Yang Xiuqing (Hsiu-ching), Hong’s “East King” (Dong Wang), to usurp the throne in 1856 resulted in the deaths of four leaders, which weakened the Taiping Tianguo. Hong died on 1 Jun 1864 during the siege of the city by the Manchu authorities. His 16-year-old son, Hong Tian-kuei-fu, succeeded him on 6 Jun 1864.