The difference is 1. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is more organized and disciplined than the Boxer Movement. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had a strict hierarchy, unified organization and leadership, and a clear offensive line, while the Boxer Rebellion was too scattered without unified organization and leadership.
The background of their uprising is different. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was not satisfied with the rise of decadent rule in Qing Dynasty, but the rise of the Boxer Movement was due to the rampant foreign religion and the blow to it.
They move for different purposes. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom aims to establish an ideal society of Datong: it is uneven and warm everywhere, with fields to cultivate, clothes to wear, food to eat and money to pay, while the slogan of the early Boxer Movement: "Help the Qing Dynasty to destroy the foreign countries" aims to eliminate foreign invasion and help protect the Qing country;
4. In terms of revolutionary program and political power, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has a clear revolutionary program, "China's land system", which established a political power against the Qing court, but the Boxer Movement did not;
5. In the attitude of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing court suppressed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement from beginning to end, while the Boxer Movement suppressed it bloody first, then waved and then suppressed it.
Similarity 1. The leading class, the main body of the movement and the way of struggle: all are peasant movements led by the peasant class, with the peasant masses as the main body and armed struggle as the main form.
2. Organizational form: All of them use religious associations to mobilize and organize the masses, which are superstitions.
3. Result: It failed under the joint suppression of Chinese and foreign reactionary forces.
4. Function: It dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary forces at home and abroad.