On The Family System Of The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

This paper is to make a statement for the development and its content of the family system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from the angle of family sociology. The family system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom had arisen new property on Chinese family development, and had carried out the basic transform to Chinese traditional family pattern.This paper has discussed the family system of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom from four aspects. First, it has analysed the beginning and extension of breaking up the family. Secondly, has made a statement for the society lives of Tianjing after canceling the family of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Again, according to the theory of family sociology, has discussed all-sidedly the influence and consequence on the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom after canceling family. Finally,has generalized the situation of resuming family in the later stage of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It was very strict for male trip and female trip in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. From the group battalion of Jintian revolt to occupation Wuhan, this kind of distinct battalion between male and female, enlarged continuously and popularizes all city residents. There are two main reasons for the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom carrying out tight distinction between male and female and canceling the family. One of the ideological cultural origin of canceling family was based on the equal and average idea in Christianity, which came from HongXiouQuan. He received influence of western Christianity savior deeply and combined the big same thought of the Confucianism. On the basic of them, he had made the average ideological view on economy and politics. At the same time, the asceticism in western Christianity had also produced important influence on him. Another, the needs of the military war. On the group battalion in Jintian, Bai God joined rovolt ranks all family under the stern war environment. It was necessary for the convenience of marching and fighting to dismiss family temporarily and carry out the male and female policy that divided into battalion. After the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupying Nanjing, it had carried out a special set of political and economic system in Nanjing. Its basic spirit coincided approximately with the equalitarianism ideological and religious idea of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. On politics, it was the establishment of various battalions,Ya and house system. First, male and female were divided into different house completely that had been carried out vigorously and speedily after occupying Nanjing. Secondly, it was the specific cooperation and division of labor in male's and female's house after dismissing the family. Finally, it was the establishment of the house for the old person. On economy, public property and equalitarianism was the notable characteristic of the economic life after male and female were divided into different house. It included the origin of public property and equalitarianism, the origin of the source and supply system and the implementation of the holy storehouse system. Family has been the foundmental unit of the entire society since the very beginning of private ownership. But the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom tightly differentiated male and female and carried out the policy that man and woman were divided into house, which meaned that family had been cancelled and lived an ascetic life of military communism. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom implemented this policy which had caused a series of serious influence and consequence. First,it deviated seriously from the developed law of the family system. As the basic organization form of human life, family undertakes important function in human life and social development. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom isolated male from female and cancelled the family, which was a rebel against developed law of the family system undoubtedly. Secondly, it had arisen too drastic reaction in the nongovernmental and Peace military after canceling family. The nongovernmental produced the panic, couples lived together and homosexuality was...