Hong Xiuquan has more than 1000 concubines and maids in the Heavenly Palace, while the contemporary "feudal" Emperor Xianfeng has only 18 concubines in the palace, and the number of beauties they have is 1.
Moreover, the strict implementation of the "women's pavilion" system and forced labor system after the Taiping Army occupied the big cities in the early days made all the women in the old weak towns become "reform-through-labor prisoners" who dug ditches, built walls and carried them, which seriously damaged the physical and mental health of women in the Taiping Army occupied areas.
When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was still worshipping God, there was a female believer, Hu Jiumei, who was very devout. She helps the congregation clean the house every day and gives all her belongings to join the club. So at that time, there was a saying that "men learn from Feng Yunshan and women learn from Hu Jiumei". At the beginning of the attack, there were many Hakka women in the camp. Under the system of separate camps for men and women, these people are really brave and can fight. Moreover, if women are controlled by the mind, their loyalty to "organization" and "religion" is much higher than that of men. The Taiping Army went all the way down to Nanjing, and there were Guangxi women with big feet everywhere.
In fact, when the Tianjing incident happened, the "heroines" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom were at their best. Hong Xiuquan instigated Wei Changhui to kill Yang. After being impeded, he tried to kill Wei Changhui to pacify Shi Dakai.
The "Northern King" was furious and his men wanted to break into the "Heavenly Palace". More than 1000 Hakka women in charge of guarding the city risked their lives, brandished knives and grabbed guns, and swore to defend Hong Xiuquan, finally forcing Wei Changhui and his men to flee.
The words that best reflect the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's disrespect for women and Hong Xiuquan's madness are the 500 poems written by this leader.
This thick booklet is kept intact in the British Museum in London. Only about 10 poems were written in the tea garden in the name of the heavenly father, and the remaining 490 capitals were "poems" used by Hongwang to scare and "teach" the concubines in the palace. They are completely vulgar and plain. Let's look at Bi Tianwang's Literary Creation from this aspect and understand why Hong Xiuquan failed in four subjects. At his level, he won't win the exam forty times.
During the years, Hong Xiuquan ordered his concubines to recite these "poems" similar to folk songs, thinking that their Guide to Action in the Palace contained a lot of Hakka words and nonsense rhetoric, which was really ironic.
In poetry, Hong always compares himself to "the sun" and "sunshine" and compares all his concubines to "the moon". Because Hong Xiuquan lied about marrying the daughter of the Emperor of Heaven when he was in the "Heaven", he called wet dream's object the Queen Mother of the "Palace of the First Month". On the contrary, his original wife Lai became the "Palace of the First Month", ranking second.
Hong Xiuquan's harem has 88 concubines with official names, collectively known as the "Deputy Moon Palace". At the same time, there are female officials in the palace, who have the functions of "unifying education", "promoting education" and "promoting prevention". There are many titles such as "Wen", "boots", "robe" and "director", all of which are concubines. Therefore, Hong Xiuquan's private life is much richer than that of the "feudal emperor" Xianfeng Emperor.