Jintian uprising was an armed uprising in Guiping County (now Guiping City, Guigang City, Guangxi Province) led by Hong Xiuquan, leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. 1844 (twenty-four years after the Qing Daoguang reign), Feng Yunshan and Hong Xiuquan successively came to Zijingshan in Guiping to establish a congregation. Soon, this kind of worship organization spread all over Zhou Xun, Linzhou counties and Xinyi, Gaozhou and other places in Guangdong. The conditions for an armed uprising are gradually maturing.

In June of the 30th year of Daoguang (1July of 850), Hong Xiuquan gave the order to organize a group camp. More than 0/0000 people from all over the country gathered in Jintian to prepare for the uprising, and defeated the Qing army twice in Caicun River near Wang Si, Pingnan and Jintian, with great momentum.

From the end of 1850 to the beginning of 185 1 0, after years of preparation, the leading group composed of Hong Xiuquan, Yang, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai organized a group camp in Jintian Village, Guangxi, and launched an armed confrontation with the Manchu court. Hong Xiuquan solemnly announced the uprising in Jintian Village.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Rebel Army became the Taiping Army, sealed the commanders of the five armies, and promulgated concise military laws. All the officers and men began a vigorous Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement from Jintian, with their hair changed and red scarves wrapped around their heads.

2. Father Ma incident

Father Ma incident, also known as "Xilin religious case", is one of the excuses for France to launch the second opium war. 1853 (the third year of Xianfeng reign in Qing dynasty), a French Catholic priest, Male, illegally sneaked into Xilin County, Guangxi, China, and put on a religious cloak to commit aggression.

1856 (in the sixth year of Qing Xianfeng), Zhang Mingfeng of Xilin County arrested 26 people, including Malai and illegal believers, and sentenced them to death according to law, and the rest were punished according to their crimes. The French government used this as an excuse to provoke the war of aggression against China. 1857 United Britain to send troops to invade China.

3. Arrow event

1853, Britain and the United States and other countries made representations to China on "amending the treaty", but they were rejected. 1856, 10 year 10 8 October, the British invaders created the Yarrow Incident. The Yarrow Incident is one of a series of events in which modern Britain trampled on China's sovereignty and damaged China's jurisdiction.

4. The Second Opium War

The Second Opium War was a war of aggression against China jointly launched by Britain and France with the support of Russia and the United States. In order to further open the China market and expand the interests of aggression in China, Britain and France used the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement in China as an excuse to jointly attack the Qing government under the pretext of Yarrow Incident and Ma Fu Incident.

This is a war of aggression against China launched by Britain and France to expand the rights and interests of aggression. The American and Russian fishermen benefit. The Tianjin Treaty and the Beijing Treaty signed by the four countries forced the Qing government to lose more territory and sovereignty in China, and foreign aggression expanded to coastal provinces and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River. The degree of semi-colonization of China society has further deepened.

5. Westernization Movement

Westernization Movement, also known as Tongzhi Reform and Self-improvement Movement. From 65438 to 1990, the Westernization Movement in the late Qing Dynasty introduced western military equipment, machine production and science and technology to save the rule of the Qing Dynasty.

186 1 year 1 month1day, Yixin, together with Gui Liang and Wen Xiang, launched the "six articles of overall planning for westernization" and launched a westernization movement aimed at Qiang Bing, a rich country.

186 1 After the coup, Cixi started to use the Westernization School, introduced advanced western science and technology on a large scale, and set up modern military industry and civilian enterprises. In the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, the Beiyang Navy was completely annihilated, which marked the failure of the Westernization Movement that lasted for more than 30 years.

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