Evaluate the historical value and shortcomings of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

The Tianping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was a movement against feudalism and imperialism, although it failed, but people still spoke highly of it, for example, it opened the beginning of the old democratic revolution, it dealt a heavy blow to the feudal ruling class, the Chinese feudal dynasty ruled for a very long time, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement strongly shook the political foundation of the Qing Dynasty and accelerated its decline. Not only for **, but this movement also had an impact on the people, and to a certain extent, it inspired the people to have the courage to fight against the feudal dynasty. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement not only shook feudalism internally, but also dealt a deep blow to imperialism externally, and it taught the invading powers a stern lesson.

However, in order to correctly evaluate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, in addition to positive evaluations, there should also be negative evaluations. Although the Taiping Rebellion had many positive effects, it certainly had negative effects. The Taiping Movement organized the masses as a religious organization, and it had the idea of worshipping God, which was not scientific, and it also harmed the peasant war.

Moreover, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was led by the peasant class, and the limitations of this class at that time meant that they could not put forward a correct and complete political program, and they were unable to maintain unity within the group, so the movement was doomed to failure. The Taiping Rebellion was a brave movement, it was the stage of the peasant class, but they did not have many of the conditions and qualities needed for war, so it also left a lesson for future generations. Only by seeing the experience of history and the lessons of history can our society develop better, which is why we evaluate the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement from both positive and negative aspects.

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Analysis: First, the Taiping Revolution reached the peak of China's old-style peasant wars.

Second, it dealt a heavy blow to the reactionary rule of the Qing Dynasty and accelerated the decline and collapse of the Qing Dynasty's rule.

Third, it has dealt a blow to foreign aggressors and hindered the process of China's semi-civilian localization.

Fourth, the spirit of resistance of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom inspired the will of the Chinese people for revolutionary struggle.

Fifth, the Taiping Revolution was also part of the revolutionary struggle of the people of the world at that time, which promoted the national liberation movement in Asia and shook the European continent.

The peasant class is not the representative of the new productive forces and relations of production, and it is unable to overcome the class limitations inherent in the small producers, and thus it is unable to fundamentally put forward a complete and correct political program and social reform program, unable to restrain and overcome the growth of corruption in the leading group itself, and unable to maintain the unity of the leading group for a long time.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom used religion to mobilize and organize the masses, but after all, the doctrine of worshipping God was not a scientific ideological theory, and it not only failed to correctly guide the struggle, but also brought a certain degree of harm to the peasant war, and also failed to treat Confucianism correctly. They also lack a rational understanding of the Western capitalist invaders.

First, it accelerated the decline and collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the entire feudal system.

2. While opposing feudalism, it also undertakes the task of opposing foreign aggression. A large-scale armed struggle was waged against foreign invaders, breaking the attempts of Western invaders to rapidly colonize China. Spike teasing.

Third, compared with China's previous peasant wars, it was ideologically and organizationally superior, and it was the highest peak of China's peasant wars in thousands of years, and had a far-reaching impact on the later anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles of the Chinese people.

Fourth, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also advocated trade with other countries**, and later put forward the first plan for the development of capitalism in China.

5. In the middle of the 19th century, the first national liberation movement emerged in Asia. The Taiping Movement and the anti-colonial struggles of the people of Persia, Indonesia, India and other countries promoted and influenced each other, and jointly struck at Western colonialists.