Jintian Village on the eve of the Jintian Uprising: The Wei Changhui family and the Xie family quarreled, and people with this surname became melon-eaters

Jintian Village on the eve of the Jintian Uprising: The Wei Changhui family and the Xie family quarreled, and people with this surname became a melon-eater

January 11, 1851 AD, which was also the year 1850 in the lunar calendar On December 10, 2011, Hong Xiuquan's 38th birthday, Yang Xiuqing, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui, Shi Dakai and other leaders of the God Worshiping Church announced an uprising and openly declared war on the Qing Dynasty. The uprising took place in Jintian Village, Guiping County, Guangxi.

Kanata Village, which was originally unknown in books, was written into modern history because of this incident, and has been known to outsiders ever since.

The Jintian Village area was originally a barren mountain. Looking back, it was developed by the ancient indigenous Yao people, but it did not form a concentrated village. Later, a Han people who moved here drove away the Yao people and opened it up as a village. This person is He Guilong.

He Guilong was from Zhejiang. He was a soldier stationed in Guiping, Guangxi. He later chose to occupy Jintian, but he had no children, so he married a son-in-law named Xie. The man named Xie did not change his surname to He, so He is the ancestor of Xie, the oldest surname in Jintian Village.

The ancestors of Wei Changhui, the northern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, were Hakkas who moved to Guangdong hundreds of years later. It was the second most common surname in Jintian Village at that time.

In addition, the surname Huang also moved into Jintian Village, becoming the third most common surname in Jintian at that time.

After hundreds of years of reproduction, at the time of the Jintian Uprising, Jintian Village had a population of about 700 people. Among them, half are named Xie, two to three hundred people are named Wei, and there are about a hundred people named Huang.

By the time Wei Changhui was born, the Wei family and the Xie family were already on the same page. The Wei family had a great business, but the Xie family was numerous and powerful, and had many talented people, and had a special relationship with the county government.

The Wei family gave up their life as landlords and joined the rebellion because they were bullied by the Xie family and filed a lawsuit. Wei Changhui bought the status of a scholar and was awarded the title of "Chengjun Jinshi" when his father celebrated his 70th birthday. The plaque (actually not considered against the rules, just too immodest and showy) was sued by the Xie family for being illegal. The Xie family relied on their connections to win, while the Wei family lost money and was embarrassed. After being led by Xiao Chaogui, they became angry. Then he destroyed his family and joined the rebel organization, vowing to vent his evil anger and find another way to get ahead.

Regarding the Huang family, the three are in a weak position. When the Xie and Wei families fight, they are just spectators, not interfering, and seeking peace.

Several hundred members of the Wei family joined the Taiping Army, and their property was donated and confiscated. Of course, the Xie family would not have joined the Taiping Army without me. There is no record of whether the Huang family participated in the Taiping Army. Maybe not, maybe there was, but what is certain is that even if they participated, Jintian Huang's surname was in the Taiping Army. There are no famous representatives either.

The Wei Changhui family gained some status and so-called wealth after joining the Taiping Army. Wei Changhui was granted the title of King of the North and ranked fifth overall. The Wei family lived in the luxurious Beiwang Mansion in Tianjing and were over eighty years old. The old man Wei Yuanjie also believed that the rebellion in Jintian was worthwhile.

But this kind of wealth was extremely short-lived. Within three years, the Wei family fell into political infighting and suffered a disaster.

Nearly two hundred years have passed since this period of history about Jintian. At that time, Jintian Village was full of grievances and resentments. Things have changed. Today, the ancestors of the people named Xie and Huang in Jintian have survived. Despite the war, they still stayed in Jintian Village and multiplied silently. However, the Wei family never came back after following the Taiping Army out of Jintian Village more than a hundred years ago.

Only a few old people in the village still like to talk about these past events. As for others, they only care about this new golden field that no longer has anyone named Wei.