During the creation and prosperity of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, she was a legendary woman, the right-hand man of Hong Xiuquan and Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West, and one of the most famous female generals in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and her presence made important contributions to the development of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
According to Yeshi, she also participated in the "Tianjing Incident", and this heroic woman was Hong Xuanjiao.
Hong Xuanjiao, formerly known as Yang Yunjiao, year of birth and death unknown. Because she is the daughter of the "Heavenly Father", she was recognized by Hong Xiuquan as her sister and changed her name. In the 30th year of Daoguang, the number of followers of the Divine Society had reached tens of thousands, and Hong Xiuquan thought that the time was ripe for an uprising, so he set up the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jintian Village and established a political regime.
self-proclaimed king, and crowned Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai and others as kings. Soon, Hong Xuanjiao was ruled by Hong Xiuquan and married Xiao Chaogui, the king of the West. But soon after the marriage, her husband died in the siege of Changsha, and Hong Xuanjiao became a widow overnight.
She did not indulge in grief, but chose to follow Hong Xiuquan and continue her unfinished business.
In the third year of Xianfeng, Nanjing fell, and after the Taiping army entered the city, it was renamed "Tianjing" and designated as the capital of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Taiping Rebellion was on the rise across the country, but after the rebels moved into Nanjing, the tide was reversed, and the leaders began to indulge in pleasure.
Hong Xiuquan ordered all the female dependents to gather together to establish a "women's pavilion", and appointed Yang Xiuqing as the general manager and Hong Xuanjiao as the supervisor. He began to search for beauties across the country to enrich his harem.
Yang Xiuqing and others spent a lot of money and built a large number of palaces. However, the internal contradictions of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom gradually deepened, and Hong Xiuquan's hedonistic life led to the military and political power being held by Yang Xiuqing, which made the generals, including Hong Xiuquan, deeply dissatisfied with Yang Xiuqing.
Hong Xuanjiao saw through their thoughts, so he secretly united with the anti-Yang forces, and at the same time persuaded Hong Xiuquan to secretly summon Wei Changhui back to Beijing to conspire with him. Wei Changhui hurried back to Tianjing from Anhui, and Hong Xuanjiao, in order to stabilize Yang Xiuqing, changed the norm, took the initiative to show favor to Yang Xiuqing, and proposed to hold a grand reception banquet for the king of the north in his name.
Yang Xiuqing and Wei Changhui have always been at odds, he thought that Hong Xuanjiao really wanted to help him regardless of his previous suspicions, so he followed Hong Xuanjiao's advice, which led to the "Tianjing Incident" that shocked the world.
At the banquet in the East Palace, Wei Changhui led the army to the East Palace, and more than 20,000 people fell under his sword. After learning the news, Shi Dakai quickly returned to Tianjing and accused Wei Changhui of indiscriminately killing innocents.
However, Wei Changhui thought that Shi Dakai and Yang Xiuqing were in a gang and intended to kill him. Shi Dakai escaped by chance, but his family was not so lucky, Wei Changhui ** Yiwang Mansion again, and his family members who stayed in Tianjing were wiped out.
After that, Hong Xiuquan ordered Shi Dakai to be arrested, and he had to flee to Anhui for refuge. This incident dealt a serious blow to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and only the loyal king Li Xiucheng remained.
At this time, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was faced with a situation of internal and external difficulties, and the Qing ** united with the foreigners and strengthened the encirclement and suppression of them. In the third year of Tongzhi, the Qing army broke through Tianjing City, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was declared a failure.
There are different opinions about Hong Xuanjiao's final fate. One theory is that she was killed in the Tianjing Rebellion, another is that she was killed by the Qing army during the fall of Tianjing, and some say that she disguised herself as an ordinary woman and fled to Shanghai with the city's inhabitants before the Qing army entered the city, and then followed the missionaries to the United States, where she opened a clinic in the San Francisco area to practice medicine.
However, the truth of these claims is unknown.