Ten fun facts about Hong Xiuquan
Fact 1
He established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom over varying portions of southern China.
Fact 2
He established himself as the “Heavenly King”
Fact 3
He was the self-proclaimed brother of Jesus Christ.
Fact 4
Hong showed an interest in scholarship at an early age, so his family made financial sacrifices to provide a formal education for him.
Fact 5
While proclaiming sexual equality, the sect segregated men from women and encouraged all its followers to pay their assets into a communal treasury.
Fact 6
Hong stayed at the Yuan Floral Hall where he studied, preached, developed his revolutionary theory and wrote many of his famous works.
Fact 7
Hong started studying at a school called Book Chamber House at the age of seven.
Fact 8
He was able to recite the Four Books after five or six years.
Fact 9
Hong received translations and summaries of the Bible written by the Christian missionaries Edwin Stevens and his assistant, Liang Fa.
Fact 10
He preached a mixture of communal utopianism, evangelism, and Christianity.
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