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Compared with previous peasant wars, what are the new features of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement?

New features:

While opposing feudalism, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom undertook the task of opposing foreign aggression.

The leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom advocated learning from the West. Hong Xiuquan used western religions to transform into a religion that worships God. Hong Rengan put forward China's first plan to develop capitalism.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom put forward a strong desire to completely smash feudal land ownership.

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement also influenced and promoted the anti-colonial struggle of people in other Asian countries.

Historical factors: The historical background of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement is very different from the peasant uprising in the past, that is, it happened in the process of China's semi-feudal and semi-colonial. The principal contradictions and revolutionary tasks in China society have changed.

Brief introduction: The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was a peasant uprising war against feudal rule and foreign capitalist aggression initiated by leading groups such as Hong Xiuquan, Yang, Xiao Chaogui, Feng Yunshan, Wei Changhui and Shi Dakai in Jintian Village of Guangxi during the period from the first year of Xianfeng to the third year of Tongzhi (1-0/864).

Logo failure: 1864, Tianjing, the capital of Taiping Tianjing, fell.