In the past, the history of middle schools introduced the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which was promulgated by Hong Xiuquan and took up a lot of space.

This "celestial system" has a wide range of contents, covering politics, economy, life, production, religion, marriage, family and other aspects.

Experts, textbooks and teachers all praised it as a revolutionary and advanced programmatic document.

If nothing else, just saying that "there are fields to plow, food to eat, clothes to wear, money to earn, uneven everywhere, and no one is hungry" and saying that "all men in the world are brothers and all women in the world are sisters" makes the poor brothers in the world swoon.

In addition, regarding marriage and family, the document emphasizes that "all marriages in the world are rich and poor", denies buying and selling marriages, advocates that the state treasury should bear all the expenses of each marriage, adopts a unified standard, that is, giving 1,000 yuan and 100 kilograms of grain, emphasizes "frugality" and opposes extravagance and waste.

Moreover, the focus is on this "harmony". While promulgating the Land System of China, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom issued a notice solemnly announcing: "It is only natural that men should be men and women should be women, men should learn agriculture, industry and commerce, and women should learn to point fingers, and a man and a woman should get married." Strict monogamy.

Needless to say, this is completely different from the backward concubine system, and its advanced nature is clear at a glance.

However, people seldom study the real reason why Hong Xiuquan and Yang made this request.

In fact, there are more men than women, so do it.

In jintian uprising, congregations from all over the country took part in the uprising with their families. In order to break the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, Hong Xiuquan and Yang forcibly separated their families, demanding "separation of men and women" and replacing family organizations as social cells with military organizations to meet the needs of mobile operations.

However, the targets ordered by Hong Xiuquan and Yang did not include the top leaders of their own movements.

They can not only live with their wives and children, but also have wives and concubines in mobile operations to expand their families.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang asked their men to write down the mantra of Heaven, sternly warning the soldiers that "the remaining demons have not been extinguished yet, and it is not yet time to get married", "But when starting a business, there must be a country first, a family later, and public affairs first and private affairs later", and promised that once the devil's atmosphere is swept away and peaceful reunification is realized, the heavenly father will be merciful, reward your merits and show your wealth.

At the beginning, the soldiers were neither tired of their families nor worried about men and women. They kill the enemy with heart, full of energy and fierce fighting.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang are very happy when they see it. They took Tianjing (now Nanjing) as their capital, and continued to prohibit husband and wife from living together, with special emphasis on "men and women are not close."

Hong Xiuquan issued a special edict, stipulating: "If the elder brother puts on lanterns on the seventh day, the younger brother will be beheaded." "Where a husband and wife commit a crime privately, both men and women will be beheaded."

It is inhuman to kill a couple in the same room.

According to People, the Tianjing Women's Museum "forbids men to enter, and mother and son, husband and wife stop talking outside the museum".

Chen Yucheng's uncle Chen Zongyang secretly met his wife Xie Wanmei, and both husband and wife were beheaded.

Yang Shu (Minister) Lu Xianba "occupies an important position and doesn't know how to behave." Because he stole his wife, he "let the husband and wife commit crimes together." But because of Yang, although he had to be pardoned for death, he was deprived of the status of Marquis and made great contributions.

Hong Xiuquan and Yang were so strict with the soldiers that they were taken into the harem one by one.

According to Xiao Wang Tianguifu Hong, the son of Hong Xiuquan who was captured by the Qing army, "Lao Wang is my father, and I have eighty-eight queens." That is, Hong Xiuquan has 88 wives and concubines.