The Heavenly King of Great Peace, as he was named. Hong Xiuquan the leader of the Taiping Rebellion in the early 19th century of china, who claims to have visions of God, as he described him fairly with a golden beard calling Jesus the “older brother of Hong” making of Hong the Christ’s younger brother and the son of god. Hong Xiuquan is a revolutionary phenomenon in the old days of the chinese empire, unemployed and a frequent failure in the civil service examination, which was the civil bureaucracy made by the ruling dynasty, Qing. Hong failed the test for the fourth and final time, and was in a state of deliria. By trusting his faith, and believing that god was on his side, Hong began his rebellion against Qing dynasty.

The uprising Hong Xiuquan established his own kingdom with a population of about 30 million and named it “The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom”. With the help of the poor and the religious community, Hong made his own rules to serve every marginalized one of his people, for a start, women were officially able to take the civil service examination and for the first time there were women officers and military leaders. He also outlawed slavery, sex work, alcohol and opium. Although he changed the community for the good to its people, some of his trades were extreme and suppressed. Men and women were separated and even the married one can’t live under the same ceiling due to his religious beliefs.

In 1847 Hong began his adaptation of, as came to be known, “Authorized Taiping Version of the Bible" and he presented it to his followers as a version of the authentic religion that had existed in ancient china before it was changed by the Confucius and the imperial system.

The fall of The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was in 1864, Qing forces had invaded the kingdom after hearing about the death of Hong Xiuquan, that happened due to a food poisoning, although some stories proclaim that it was suicide. Qing forces exhumed, beheaded, and cremated Hong Xiuquan's body, and the ashes were blasted out of a cannon, in order to ensure that his remains have no resting place as an eternal punishment.

This was only a summary of whom this Hong Xiuquan was, but his story is much more interesting than my boring way of telling. The chinese history as a whole is worth your reading, although it’s a journey, but im willing to continue it anyway.