The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was once renamed as a province, and its name is getting better and better. What's the name of your hometown?

"Chang 'an Road" wrote: "Where flowers fall, brothels bloom, songs are full of songs and a glass of wine. The beauty advised me to eat, drink and be merry. Since ancient times, Zhu Yan has never been here, and you have never met foreign guests, Chang 'an Avenue. I will be old as soon as I come back. "

The word vividly shows the prosperity of Chang 'an at that time, and the name Chang 'an is also full of dreams, which makes people full of yearning just by listening to the name. But with the passage of time, the names of many cities have changed. Chang 'an was also changed to Xi 'an by Zhu Yuanzhang, but the long flavor contained in the word Chang 'an has been lingering over Xi 'an, which reminds people of the elegance thousands of years ago.

Therefore, the name of a city is particularly important to this city and will not be changed easily. However, during the reign of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in history, the place names in various places changed greatly, and many jokes were made!

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was a large-scale peasant uprising led by Hong Xiuquan in the late Qing Dynasty. Born in Guangdong, Hong Xiuquan took part in many imperial examinations, but all failed in Sun Shan. Unsuccessful, he was very dissatisfied with the times and rulers at that time. Later, in Guiping County, he led Hong and others to launch the jintian uprising. With the expansion of the ranks, the armed forces of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also developed. They conquered hundreds of cities, owned half of the country at that time, and had a stable political power.

In the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, a series of reforms were carried out, and the Land System of China and the New Chapter of Senior Minister were promulgated, which put forward an idealized society of farmland sharing and grain sharing. Although it didn't come true in the end, it all has very positive significance. However, after all, the peasant uprising has its limitations, and it still retains feudal thoughts in thought. For example, China has been avoiding the name of the emperor for thousands of years. During the reign of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, we should not only avoid the names of the heavenly kings, but also avoid the place names of the provinces. Therefore, the rulers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom changed the names of various places.

At first, all kinds of names were taboo names for King Hong Xiuquan and five other leaders. Because Hong Xiuquan's surname is Hong, he is not allowed to have the same surname, so he has to change his surname to Tong. He also banned people from using wang xing, and wang xing could only be changed to "yellow" or "king". This practice also caused a lot of people's dissatisfaction at that time, but they were afraid to say it.

Because surnames are very important in ancient times, no one wants to change the surnames handed down by ancestors. After many people surrendered to the Qing army, the first thing they did was to change their surnames back.

In addition to the name, Hong's renaming of the provinces is even more unacceptable. At that time, many provinces were occupied by Taiping Heavenly Kingdom troops. In addition to avoiding the name of the ruler, there is another reason for changing the place name to erase the traces of the Qing Dynasty, and there are provincial names belonging to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom itself. At that time, Hong Xiuquan proclaimed himself emperor in Nanjing, so he changed Nanjing to Tianjing. Because it avoids the word "Tian", Fengtian becomes a "Fengtian". Although the pronunciation is the same, the meaning is different. The word "Tian" gives people a rustic feeling and makes people laugh and cry.

Andy Gui, the king of the West, changed Guizhou to "Guizhou" because he wanted to avoid the word "expensive", with the same name as Guizhou in Guangxi. It is easy to be confused. Heilongjiang was changed to "Wulong River". This name sounds really unattractive. Moreover, Feng Yunshan, the king of the South, changed Yunnan into an "unsuccessful" southern province because there was a cloud in his name. Although they are all homophones, they are all variants, which are difficult to write and tacky.

However, the provinces closest to the Qing Dynasty changed the most, and Tianjin Province was changed to "Tianjin", which also means anti-Qing. Many other provinces were renamed by the rulers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and some even changed their names directly according to their personal preferences, such as changing the one with the river to ginger, Zhejiang to Zhejiang ginger, and so on. I guess they're all confused.

During the reign of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, many provinces changed their original names. Lost its original charm. Without careful consideration, it was changed and laughed at. Hong Xiuquan is also a farmer, who has read four books and five classics, but the fact that he changed the names of provinces shows his feudal thoughts. He can lay down half of the Qing Dynasty, but he can't manage these areas well.

Although the rulers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom played a joke on renaming the province, their patriotic stance was true. After Hong Xiuquan stabilized the political power, foreign envoys negotiated with him, trying to carve up China's territory with him after the victory of anti-Qing, but Hong Xiuquan decisively refused. Said a very classic sentence, he said "after the job is done. If I share the territory with foreigners, everyone will laugh at me; If it fails, it is to let foreigners enter the territory of China and attract wolves into the room. " . This shows that Hong Xiuquan still has a patriotic heart anyway.

In the end, the emperor was defeated, but in general, the peasant uprising still had great limitations. Even though the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom advocated an ideal society in which everyone was equal, it was still realized with feudal ideas. He didn't do what he imagined, and the ruler didn't escape the pursuit and yearning for power. When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom first established political power, palaces were built on a large scale, and Hong Xiuquan was a group of wives and concubines who were addicted to having fun. Don't ask questions about national affairs. With power, Hong Xiuquan lost his original heart.

Before the fall of Tianjin, Hong Xiuquan made more than 2,000 people king. Inside the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there was intrigue and mutual suspicion of power. The civil war continued and was finally strangled by China and foreign countries. It can also be said that infighting is an important reason for the demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If we made concerted efforts with Qi Xin, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not perish so soon. There is a poem that describes them like this: "Wang Mian's robes are flourishing, and the heavenly brothers and heavenly fathers are inclined. Taiping was completely defeated at this point, and I regret the mutiny. "

Indeed, although their anti-feudal struggle dealt a heavy blow to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty to a certain extent, they could not get rid of the shackles of feudal society in thought and behavior, lost their initial heart and were carried away by power, which led to the decline and demise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the later period.

History develops and advances, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement opposes feudal society. The starting point was good, but it didn't change the nature of feudal society at that time. Even if the Taiping heavenly kingdom army did not fail in the end. They were equivalent to changing a group of rulers, and the people's life at that time would not change.