Why did the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement break out in Guangxi?

The irreconcilable contradiction between aborigines and immigrants there has created the inevitability of fate.

In Guangxi, people generally call foreign Han people "Hakkas" to distinguish them from local residents.

On the eve of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, there were only 30%-40% local residents in Guangxi. Because Guangxi has always been dominated by ethnic minorities, the local residents we are talking about here only refer to ethnic minorities in Guangxi. The local Han nationality accounts for only a small part of all the Han nationality in Guangxi.

Therefore, in Guangxi in the middle of19th century, except for 30% to 40% ethnic minorities and a few local Han Chinese, Han Chinese immigrants from other places became the mainstream of Guangxi population, which laid a curse for the growth of the contradiction between local people and foreign tourists.

Historical lessons

The failure of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom fully shows that due to the limitations of class and times, the peasant class could not lead the China revolution to victory. In order to overthrow the reactionary rule of the Qing government, we need revolutionary ideas and theoretical guidance that conform to the historical trend and meet the urgent needs of the broad masses of the people.

While opposing feudalism, we should also oppose capitalist powers. Only by opposing feudalism, capitalist powers and bureaucratic capitalism can we accomplish the task of saving the country and the people. The historical experience of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement and the later Revolution of 1911 provided valuable reference for the later revolutionary movements.