Traveling, you must not only appreciate the beautiful natural scenery, but also understand the profound cultures of various places. Each place has its own history, which may be long, heavy, bright, or colorful. In some ancient cities, ancient capitals, and ancient towns, history and scenery are often more exciting. For example, Nanjing, the famous ancient capital of my country, is like this. Many people say that it is the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties. In fact, if you look through history, you can see that Eastern Wu, Eastern Jin, Southern Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Southern Tang, Ming, Taiping Rebellion, The Republic of China and others all established their capitals in Nanjing one after another, so it was at least ten dynasties (some people say twelve dynasties).

Among the ten dynasties that established Nanjing as the capital, the Taiping Rebellion was the largest and most influential peasant uprising in Chinese history. It lasted for 14 years and its power grew to 18 provinces and swept across most of China. At its peak, a branch of the Taiping Rebellion could attack the core of the Qing Dynasty and threaten the security of the capital. The capital of Tianjing (now Nanjing) has left a strong mark in Chinese history.

Today, in Zhanyuan, which is known as the first garden in Jinling, along the Qinhuai River in Nanjing, there is China's only special museum for the history of the Taiping Rebellion. It is a special museum for China to collect, store, display, publicize, investigate and study the cultural relics and historical materials of the Taiping Rebellion. It can systematically understand the history of the Taiping Rebellion and its influence on future generations. It is worth a visit.

Zhanyuan, where the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Museum is located, is one of the four famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River. It is located in the core area of the Qinhuai Scenery Belt of Confucius Temple in Qinhuai District, Nanjing. It is the oldest existing classical garden of the Ming Dynasty in Nanjing. It is said that its history can be traced back to the King of Wu before Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor. It was later given to the mansion garden of Xu Da, the King of Sun Yat-sen. It is famous for its rockery and named after Ouyang Xiu's poem "Looking at the Jade Hall, as in the sky." In the Ming Dynasty, it was called" The First Garden in the Southern Capital." During the Taiping Rebellion period, it was once the Mansion of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, and Lai Hanying, the Deputy Prime Minister of Xia Guan, and later the Mansion of Xiao Youhe, the Young King, and is now a national key cultural relic protection unit and a national AAAAA tourist attraction.

In addition to the gold-lettered signboard of the First Garden of Jinling, there are also two museum signboards hanging on the gate of Zhanyuan. One is the General Exhibition of Nanjing Museum and the other is the Taiping Rebellion Museum. This Taiping Rebellion Museum was originally built by the Taiping Rebellion historian Luo Ergang and others in December 1950. On October 1, 1956, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Memorial Hall was established at the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Palace site on Tangzi Street. In May 1958, it moved to Zhanyuan Road. In January 1961, it was renamed the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum has a total of 4 exhibition halls, which are divided into nine parts: prologue, historical background, Jintian Uprising, founding the capital of Tianjing, system and policy, persistence in struggle, resisting aggression, defending Tianjing and the succession. It introduces the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with pictures and texts. The entire process.

With concise written materials and a large number of physical historical materials, the museum truly reproduces the tragic and tragic journey of the Taiping Rebellion in the past 18 years. In addition to the development history, there is also an exhibition hall that displays the five themes of the Taiping Rebellion: military, economy, art, foreign relations and influence, including some precious cultural relics and historical materials.

According to staff, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom History Museum has a total of 1657 cultural relics in its collection, including 42 first-class collections, including the original engraved official books "Regulations on the Imperial Order of Officials" and "Records of the Imperial Order of Military Orders" issued by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the "Purpose" approved by the Heavenly King Hong Xiuquan for the issuance of official books.

In addition to some graphic introductions, the museum also restored some major historical events, such as the "Tianjing Incident", truly recreating the historical development at that time.

Although the Taiping Rebellion ended in failure, it made important contributions to China's historical development. This has been positively evaluated by leaders from all over the world. For example, the "Tianchao Farmland System" and "New Chapter for Counselors" promulgated by the Taiping Rebellion Movement are great creations of the peasant class, giving certain material benefits to the peasant class and reflecting the strong desire of the peasant class for freedom and equality. The "Tianchao Farmland System" is the first programmatic document involving politics, military, economy, etc. proposed in the history of Chinese peasant wars. It is also the first specific plan for the allocation of land by peasant insurgents in history. It embodies the idea of equality and plays a role in promoting a certain role.

In addition, after the Taiping Rebellion established its capital in Tianjing (Nanjing), it actively implemented foreign trade policies and carried out normal foreign trade. The foreign trade policy is active development, equality, mutual benefit, and independence, which is in sharp contrast to the Qing government's closed door to the world, surrendered and flattered foreigners, and lost power and humiliated the country. Moreover, it has a very tough attitude towards foreign opium imports. In 1854, Yang Xiuqing wrote in a letter to the British envoy when talking about trade: "Not only Britain, but all countries trade. All brothers in the four seas are brothers. The establishment of the port will be settled later, and things that harm people will be prohibited." Give the invaders a head start.

Visiting this museum gave us a really deeper understanding of the Taiping Rebellion. Since they rose up in the Jintian Uprising, they pointed the finger of their struggle at the Qing Dynasty, opposed the feudal hierarchy, and advocated the idea of equality. The anti-feudal struggle of the Taiping Rebellion dealt a heavy blow to the rulers of the Qing Dynasty. As for the anti-imperialist struggle, the banner is also very clear. Wall, the leader of the foreign rifle team, and Brode, the French admiral, died under the sword of the Taiping rebels. In 1862, a foreign invader came to Nanjing and suggested to Hong Xiuquan that after working together to defeat the Qing army, China should be divided equally. Hong Xiuquan immediately refuted sternly: "When I fight for China, I want to have the whole plan; when everything is done, the world will laugh; when it fails, I will attract ghosts into the country. "This also fully reflects his patriotic stance.

I have to say that this museum is worth a visit!