Former site of Jintian uprising of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom

Address of Jintian Uprising

synonym

The former site of Jintian uprising of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom generally refers to the address of Jintian uprising

Jintian uprising address, commonly known as Jintian Yingpan, is located on the rhinoceros ridge on the west side of Jintian village, Jintian Town, north of Guiping City, Guangxi Province. It is 28 kilometers away from the urban area. It has a second-class highway direct to the city. It has five cultural relics, including Wei Changhui's former residence, Xinxu Sanjie temple, fujiazhai, Gulin society and fengmen'ao

It is the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units

It has been listed in the list of national Red Tourism classic scenic spots.

In January 2017, the address of Jintian uprising was listed in the list of national Red Tourism classic scenic spots.

In February 2020, in order to express our gratitude to the medical staff, the park will be open to the medical staff and their parents, spouses and children free of charge from the date of the restoration of the park to December 31, 2020.

Evolution of construction

In 1851, the peasant uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom broke out in Jintian village, Jintian Town, Guiping city.

In 1974, a rest room was built in rhino ridge.

In 1979, the Jintian uprising exhibition hall was built, with a two-story building area of 252 square meters, small scale, unreasonable structure, imperfect supporting facilities and few display contents.

In 1980, the exhibition room was built and the cultural relics of the Jintian uprising were displayed.

In 1987, a memorial building named "former residence of Wei Changhui, the northern king" was built on the original site. The scale and form of the building did not match the historical facts of Wei Changhui's family background and the architectural style of the same period in Hetian village.

In 1990, Li hongxiuquan was like a statue.

Since 2000, we have completed the construction of the site and some surrounding infrastructure, built a 5km long and 4.7m wide asphalt road around rhino ridge, built a 1800m long protective fence and gatehouse on rhino ridge, carried out greening work in some areas, built a 7000 square meter large parking lot, a garbage transfer station, three environmental protection toilets, and maintained the third boundary of the former command post of Taiping army Temple, rebuilt the former residence of Wei Changhui, more than 120 meters wall.

In 2003, it added Rhinoceros Pool, martial arts arena, Hongxiu gold statue, road square Tianwang mansion, stele Gallery, Ming and Qing markets, Wei Changhui's former residence, road, bell tower, battery exhibition area, Tianwang Dragon Boat exhibition area, warship performance area, warship cruise area, green space, road square, library heritage site and other projects.

architectural composition

Jintian uprising site has five cultural relics, including Wei Changhui's former residence, San Jie temple in Xinxu, Fu Jiazhai, Gulin society and fengmen'ao. After rhinoceros mountain pillow Jingshan, the front Jintian plain, the north end of the mountain for the ancient Yingpan, the middle of the Taiping Rebellion when the "flag worship stone.". The lawn in front of guyingpan is the training ground of Taiping army. The northwest slope of the mountain is close to Rhinoceros Pool. To the south of the mountain is the "historical exhibition hall of Jintian uprising of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom". It is a granite body with glazed tile top. It has a simple appearance and forms a garden layout with the reception room, stele gallery and video room. The former residence of Wei Changhui, the northern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is in Jintian village on the east side of rhinoceros ridge. The headquarters of the God worship Association once set up its home, where the congregation fired weapons day and night, and then transported them to the Rhinoceros Pool for secret collection. After the uprising army went north, the Qing soldiers burned down the houses. The existing former residence of Wei Changhui was restored in 1987. Xinxu Sanjie temple, 4 kilometers east of guyingpan, is the former headquarters of the Taiping army. There are nearly 30 inscriptions in the temple, which are precious materials for studying the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Main attractions

Rhinoceros ridge

Rhinoceros ridge is a north-south mound, facing the Jintian plain, backed by the Muqun mountain, and facing the Fengmen depression, a key pass in the south of the Bauhinia mountain.

Guyingpan

Guyingpan is located at the north end of rhinoceros ridge near Jintian village. It is the place where the army and people of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom swore to revolt. According to legend, Yingpan was originally built by Yao people's uprising army in Datengxia of Ming Dynasty. On the eve of Jintian uprising, Taiping Army rebuilt and strengthened it. Yingpan is 35 meters long and 22 meters wide. It is surrounded by earth walls with a height of 3 meters and a bottom width of 2 meters.

Rhinoceros Pool

Rhinoceros Pool was originally a pool formed by purple water flowing under rhinoceros ridge. It was the place where the Taiping Rebellion army collected weapons. It has farmland in the West and North and rhinoceros ridge in the East and south. Because the sediment of the surrounding fields has been washed into the pond by rain for a long time, the area of the pond water is becoming smaller and smaller, and weeds are growing. Some of them have been reclaimed as farmland by villagers.

Flag worship stone

In the middle of guyingpan, there used to be a round platform. In front of it, there was a big stone about 1 meter above the ground, called Baiqi stone. It is said that on January 11, 1851, several leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom boarded the platform. Hong Xiuquan announced the uprising and built the name "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom". An apricot yellow flag rose slowly beside the flag worship stone.

History Gallery

The uprising history exhibition room was built in 1980, located in the southeast corner of the training ground, west of the Jintian uprising address depository. The imperial edict issued by Hong Xiuquan, the knives, spears, flags and weapons used by the Taiping army, the charcoal, anvil and iron slag left behind, and the top load of the Qing Dynasty officials and other objects and historical materials are displayed in the room. It reproduces the whole process of the Jintian uprising and is a miniature of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising.

Building Weapons Division

The former residence of Wei Changhui in Jintian village is the site of the building weapons department. In the spring of 1850, the headquarters of God worship society moved from Zijingshan to Jintian village, and immediately started to build weapons and prepare for armed uprising. According to the local people's legend, "members of the God worship Association opened 12 iron stoves in Wei Changhui's horizontal house, built weapons day and night, and secretly stored the forged knives and spears in the Rhinoceros Pool at the foot of the camp for the use of the uprising." As expected, he got thousands of weapons in Rhinoceros Pool, which became the main weapons during the uprising.

Wei Changhui's former residence

The former residence of Wei Changhui, the northern king of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, is located in Jintian village on the east side of rhinoceros ridge. The former residence is a brick and wood structure building sitting in the north to the south. There are two upper and lower, left and right wing rooms, horizontal rooms, gatehouse and moon pool in front of the house, covering an area of 330 square meters. After the Taiping Uprising, Wei Changhui's house was burned by the Qing soldiers. In 1987, in memory of Wei Changhui, the northern king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Guiping County Museum built Wei Changhui's former residence with two rooms and three bays on the original address, with a construction area of 260 square meters and an area of 1280 square meters.

Gulin Society

Gulin society is located in the pass of Zijing mountain. It is the place where Feng Yunshan, the southern king of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, went to work as a coolie and organized the masses to worship God. It is also an important activity place of Jintian uprising.

Headquarters site

The site of Taiping army headquarters is located in shitoujiao village, 15 kilometers away from Jintian village. On the third day of the Jintian uprising (January 13, 1851), the Taiping Army stormed out to the East and occupied the Dahuang River Estuary on the Bank of the Xunjiang River, with its headquarters in shitoujiao village. The village, a big landlord surnamed Chen, made a fortune by selling tobacco and soil. He occupied all the good fields near qiaotang and Liantang, and built a manor with more than 200 houses. The big house was surrounded by huge stones, and there was a moat outside. The stone foot got its name.

Fengmen'ao

Fengmen'ao battle site is located in the southern mountain pass of Zijing mountain, which is the only way for Jintian plain to enter and leave Zijing mountain. In August 1851, the Taiping army launched a fierce battle with the Qing army.

San Jie Temple

Sanjie temple is located in Xinxu in the center of Jintian plain. After Taiping army moved from Zijingshan to Jintian in August of the lunar calendar in 1851, it took sanjiemiao as the front command post, where Hong Xiuquan once commanded the famous battle of breaking through Xinwei. It was first built in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. It has been repaired in all dynasties. It has two entrances and three bays and four in one courtyard. It is of brick and wood structure. The existing architectural techniques and materials are Lingnan style in the middle and late Qing Dynasty. It is well preserved. There are 26 inscriptions on the walls of the temple from Kangxi period to Daoguang period

In the Sanjie temple, there are more than 20 inscriptions, such as the stele of rebuilding Sanjie temple in Xuanli Xinxu and the stele of Anliang treaty. The inscriptions reflect the local social, economic and class conditions before the Jintian uprising, and are important materials for studying the history of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Fu Jiazhai

Fujiazhai is located at the north end of Mocun village, 1.5km southwest of Molong village committee of Jintian town. It is a large courtyard of Fu Jiping, the landlord in Xianfeng Period of Qing Dynasty. The building plan of the village is rectangular. It is southeast to northwest, 156.48m long from south to north, covering an area of 4281.2 square meters. The original building is a four in three Bay courtyard, followed by a five storey turret, etc., which constitutes a well-organized building The grand Zhuangyuan. In June 1851, the Taiping Army became the former army command post, under the command of Xiao Chaogui, and beat back the enemy's siege many times, which created favorable conditions for the later Xinxu breakout. After the withdrawal of the Taiping army, the Qing army carried out a retaliatory ransacking of Mo Village, leaving many broken walls in the Fujia village, which is an important memorial site of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Cultural relic value

The Jintian uprising of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom is a great peasant revolutionary war against feudalism and aggression in modern Chinese history. It is also the peak of Chinese peasant war for thousands of years

. As the witness of the largest peasant uprising in Chinese history, the address of Jintian uprising is of great historical value and significance