Taiping Heavenly Kingdomball

Taiping Heavenly Kingdomball was an oppositional state in Qingball from 1851 to 1864, established by Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Rebellion. Its capital was at Tianjing, which is present-day Nanjing. It got raped destroyed by Qingball and other western countries because its "Christianity" is totally fake (Hong said he is the brother of Jesus).
== The Taiping Rebellion ==
Hong Xiuquan was a peasant-scholar who did not do well in the Imperial Civil Service Exam, and who, aside from farming, taught local students for a living. Hong was influenced by traces of Protestantism in Cantonball ( Guangdongball), Qingball, spread by missionaries at the time. He allegedly had a fever and saw visions of God.
Hong turned out to be a student of Christianity with unconventional ambitions, and was, by a twist of fate, denied baptism. Disillusioned, Hong decided to create his own cult - The Congregation of God-Worshippers (拜上帝会). Cults among the Chinese peasantry existed throughout the Qingball's clay. These cults often incorporated pantheistic elements from Chinese folk religions.
Through mystic rituals, magical illusions, and conversion experiences, the Congregation became a local influence in Hong's home province of Guangdongball, attracting mostly the Hakka people, a minority subdivision of Han Chineseballs, in Guangdongball and Guangxiball. Inevitably, the Congregation provided solidarity, both ethnic and religious, to people in it. The Hakka and the ethnic majority are in constant conflict in the region, with Qingball siding with the majority. Continued conflicts between Qingball and the cultists eventually led to the peasant rebellion which we now know as the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Due to corruption of Qingball's bureaucrats themself, the severity of the rebellion was never adequately conveyed to Qingball's favor in time; otherwise Taipingball would have been put down much earlier.
The Taiping proved to be incredibly unified, partially because of the cohesive forces provided by a shared faith, partially because the cult is monotheistic, and partially because of strict disciplines based on an extreme version of Confucian ritualism (礼教). Yet one fatal flaw of the Taiping is that it openly vilified Confucius, despite observing strict Confucian rituals. This alienated educated elites and small aristocrats (士大夫) from the rebellion, thus failing to sustain strong support from within and provoking strong opposition from the elites. As Taipingball took more populated cities, it also absorbed many undisciplined forces, as bandits, mobs, and criminals would commit crimes and atrocities in the name of the Taiping, creating tombstones for about 25milion victims. Hong Xiuquan was only a fervent cult leader, yet he was no leader. As the Taiping crumbled from within, it was also crushed from without by Qingball's Imperial Xiang Army funded by British Empireball.
Lastly, it is important to 
note Taiping Heavenly Kingdomball also implemented numerous policies similar to communism, such as abolishing private property and the creation of a classless society. This inspried Mao Zedong Thought. On a silimar note, note that Hong Rengan, the cousin of Hong Xiuquan and one of the leaders of the Taiping, wrote New Treatise on Political Counsel (资政新篇) which was the first Chinese work laying out the exposure of toxic Capitalism. Hong Rengan was the brain among the disorganized rebelling peasants, yet his advice was overlooked by the rest of the leadership.
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