Brief introduction of Hong in Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, how did Hong die?

Hong Jiaoxuan of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Hong of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a native of Fuyuan Water Village, Huaxian County (now Huadu District), Guangdong Province. Her original name is Yang. Because she is the daughter of the heavenly father, Hong Xiuquan admitted that she was her sister and changed her name to Hong. She is Xiao Chaogui's wife, and the date of birth and death is unknown. Hong played a very important role in the establishment and growth of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and was the right-hand man of Hong Xiuquan and Xiao Chaogui.

According to historical records, Hong of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was an outstanding woman who participated in the Tianjing Incident and one of the legendary women in the history of China. She made great contributions to the establishment and rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In addition, she is Hong Xiuquan's younger sister, and has a very close relationship with Yang and Xiao Chaogui, so she once became the core figure of the Catholic Church.

Since the establishment of the Church of God, the number of people has been expanding. By 185 1 year, the number of believers in the church of God had increased to tens of thousands. Hong Xiuquan thought the time was ripe, so he erected the banner of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in Jintian Village, calling himself the King of Heaven, and established the East King, the West King, the South King, the North King and the Wing King under its banner. Later, Hong Xiuquan made a decision for Hong and married Xiao Chaogui, the Queen Mother of the West. However, Xiao Chaogui soon died in the siege of Changsha, and Hong became a widow in an instant.

In A.D. 1854, after the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom captured Nanjing, Nanjing was designated as the capital of the Kingdom of Tian Ping and renamed Tianjing. At this time, Hong Xiuquan was completely immersed in womanhood, and the military and political power of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was completely in Yang's hands, which made Hong Xiuquan and many generals of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom dissatisfied. Hong seized the opportunity, united with the anti-Yang forces, planned a banquet to assassinate him, and the Tianjing Incident began. Since then, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom has been weakened and ended in failure, and Hong's ending has become a mystery.

How did Hong die?

During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, many female generals appeared, among which the most famous was the Queen Mother Hong. In Historical Records, Hong is a beautiful woman with superb martial arts. However, there are many records about the cause of Hong's death in Historical Records.

There are different opinions about the record of Hong in history, but Hong is a princess, formerly known as Yang, and she had a high prestige in the early days of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, which is no problem. This is mainly because she is brave and good at fighting, and she is the leader of all female believers. There are not many official records about how Hong died, so we can only look for clues from unofficial history and folklore.

About the death of Hong, some unofficial history thought that he was killed by the disorderly army during the Tianjing Rebellion. It is not impossible for Hong Xiuquan to kill Yang and Wei Changhui while pacifying the civil strife, and then kill this energetic person together. If Hong really died in the Tianjing Rebellion, then her body was discovered ten years after the Qing army invaded Tianjing. If the Qing army finds Hong's grave, it will definitely transport her body or part of her body to Beijing, and this matter will definitely be recorded by the Qing court.

If Hong was killed when Tianjing fell, then the Qing army must have a record of killing her. But in historical records, there is no such record. There is also a saying that when the city of Kyoto was breached that day, Hong disguised himself as a civilian woman and went to Shanghai with the fleeing crowd. Later, she went to the United States with foreign missionaries, began to practice medicine in San Francisco, and eventually died young.