The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement put forward a clear revolutionary program was the

The programmatic document put forward by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was the Tianchao Tianmu System, and in the later period, the Zizheng Xinzhu (New Essay on Government) was also put forward.

The Tianchao Tianmu System was a programmatic document issued during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, which was promulgated after the establishment of the capital, Tianjing (present-day Nanjing), in 1853 (the third year of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's Decade of Happiness). It was proposed by Hong Xiuquan on the basis of the idea of equality elaborated in the writings of the Original Way to Save the World and the Original Way to Wake Up the World.

The Heavenly Mou System centered on solving the land problem of the peasants, and it involved a wide range of policies and measures in economic, political, military, cultural, educational and social reforms. The main contents include:

1. Declaring that all land and wealth belonged to the Emperor. It determined that "all fields should be ploughed together, all meals should be eaten together, all clothes should be worn together, and all money should be used together". It divided the land into nine classes, good and bad evenly matched. The land was then distributed equally among the population, regardless of gender, on a household basis.

2. It provided for a sub-county administrative system, established township officials at all levels, and provided for the selection, promotion and demotion of township officials, as well as for their rewards and punishments. The "Two Secretaries of Departments" were responsible for the management of production, distribution, education, religion, justice, and the local armed forces.

3. It stipulated that the surplus grain and money should be paid to the State Treasury, and that the rest of the harvest from each family's agricultural and sideline industries should be paid to the State Treasury in accordance with the system after deducting the rations.

4. Abolition of feudal marriage. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom did not implement the rule of equal division of land in its occupied areas, although it enacted it many times.

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Impact:

The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution took place at the early stage of China's entry into modern society, and it was both a purely peasant war and a democratic revolution of the old bourgeoisie, which can be regarded as the prelude to the old democratic revolution in China's modern history.

It promulgated the Tianchao Tianmu System, which developed the idea of peasant egalitarianism to its peak. Formally, the rule of the Qing Dynasty continued for nearly half a century, but during this half century, the Chinese people, influenced and inspired by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolution, never stopped fighting against the feudal dynasty, and half a century later finally broke out in the Xinhai Revolution.

But the lessons of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement's failure are equally profound. This great war participated by millions of people, due to the leading group of political premature feudalization, organizational failure to always maintain the unity of the leadership core, military strategic decisions repeatedly failed, as well as diplomatic inexperience, so that its leaders did not really understand the essence of the powers, and finally suffered internal and external repression, trapped in the defeat.

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