1856 One morning in September, 3,000 persevering Taiping Heavenly Kingdom soldiers surrounded the mansion of the heavenly king Hong Xiuquan. Who is the commander of this army? North king? Wei changhui. At that time, the sky was getting brighter and 3000 armored soldiers rushed to the gate of Tianwangfu. However, as the city gate opened with a loud noise, more than 800 female soldiers armed with broadswords and spears shouted from the Heavenly Palace, struggling to fight their way out, and were killed together with the astonished 3,000 soldiers. This is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom female soldier who guards the Tianwangfu, the earliest female believer of Hong Xiuquan, and the first batch of female soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Then, why did Hong Xiuquan use female soldiers as the guardians of Tianwangfu? And why are the female soldiers of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom so willing to be Hong Xiuquan's last line of defense? For some time, many media have disclosed the little-known history of female soldiers in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from prosperity to extinction.
The birth of female soldiers in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began on 185 1 year 1 month1day. On this day, Hong Xiuquan swore an uprising in Jintian, Guangxi, and at the same time promulgated five military disciplines, the second of which was? Not a man and a woman, okay, set up a women's camp. This is the earliest female soldier record of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The birth of female soldiers in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom completely rewrote the most powerful power pattern in male society.
In the heyday of the late Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, this political, military and religious regime had more than100000 female soldiers, which was the largest female military organization in the world at that time. However, at the same time, the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom widely chose concubines and flocked to them.
After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured Wuchang, the system of separation of men and women was implemented, which was extremely embarrassing when the cause of the Kingdom of Heaven was in full swing. So, 1855, after a year and a half in Tianjing, Hong Xiuquan finally gave the order to dissolve the women's museum. At the same time, there is a law that allows couples to set up a media official to take charge of this matter. This is not so much the dissolution of the women's museum as the awarding of honours to officials of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Out of concern about the affair between the guards and the harem, more than a thousand female soldiers in Guangxi became the guards of the Heavenly Palace.
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Until 1864, the capital of Tianjing was broken, and a large group of troops were killed in the Heavenly Palace. These female soldiers held high the banner of defending the Heavenly Palace to the death and even set themselves on fire with the fanaticism peculiar to religious people. Although the female soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom finally disappeared, from them, it not only reflects the difficult course of China women's struggle for their own independence, freedom and liberation, but also indicates that the era of modern female soldiers in China is coming soon.