As the last peasant uprising movement in Chinese history, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was of great significance. As the name suggests, the leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement were committed to building an ideal kingdom of blessings, land and clothing, and the vision of land and land represented the aspirations of Chinese peasants for land. In feudal society, the land did not belong to the peasants, but to the king. The launch of the Taiping Rebellion greatly encouraged the peasants and allowed the uprising to develop rapidly. However, the Taiping Rebellion ultimately failed, and the reasons for the defeat have also been revealed. First of all, Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, adopted the methods of worship and superstitious theology in order to gain popular support.
He claimed to be the Son of God and the brother of Jesus, and he used mystical forms to gain the trust of the people. This form was greatly beneficial in the early days of the Taiping Rebellion, attracting more and more people to support his uprising. However, with the development of the movement, a chaotic situation of intertwined divine power and imperial power gradually formed, causing serious infighting and even leading to the later rebellion of Yang Xiuqing. And Hong Xiuquan's superstition also led to the use of superstition to govern the country, which doomed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement to failure. Secondly, after Hong Xiuquan achieved certain achievements, he began to indulge in pleasures and delegated power to Yang Xiuqing, no longer caring about the government. This phenomenon of corruption also accelerated the decline of the Taiping Rebellion.
However, at this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was being strangled by the combined forces of China and foreign countries. At the critical moment when the fruits of the revolution should have been consolidated, Hong Xiuquan lived in the palace, indulging in pleasure all day long, and having fun with his 88 concubines. At the same time, the soldiers in front were fighting bravely to kill the enemy, while the monarch in the rear was at ease. This situation led to the centrifugation of the soldiers, and also laid a hidden danger for the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in the later period. The confusion of military strategy was also an important reason for the failure of the Taiping Rebellion. Throughout the development of the Taiping Rebellion, there was a lack of a complete strategy for planning and then acting. In the early stages of development, the Taiping Rebellion developed relatively smoothly because it did not suffer too much external hindrance and interference.
However, as its power grew, and the late Qing Dynasty and the Western powers began to pay attention to the Taiping Rebellion, military strategy became particularly important. Due to the limitations of the peasant class, the military activities of the Taiping Rebellion were almost chaotic. For example, after the Jintian Uprising, Hong Xiuquan did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, but instead stationed at the mouth of the Great Yellow River for 57 days. Such a military strategy led to the rapid decline of morale, and also provided an opportunity for the Qing ** to mobilize troops to support, which ultimately led to the defeat of the Taiping Rebellion. Therefore, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement can only be regarded as Hong Xiuquan's ideal kingdom.
Although in the process, he developed a series of policy documents and programs of positive significance, but in the end they failed due to their own limitations.