Xiang was a place in
Guangxi
Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...
province where there was an idol to
Gan. Feeling that Gan was an embodiment of immorality and other evils,
Hong Xiuquan
Hong Xiuquan (1 January 1814 – 1 June 1864), born Hong Huoxiu and with the courtesy name Renkun, was a Chinese revolutionary and religious leader who led the Taiping Rebellion against the Qing dynasty. He established the Taiping Heavenly K ...
,
Lu Liu and
Feng Yunshan
Feng Yunshan (; 1815 – June 10, 1852) was the South King of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, a distant cousinJen Yu-wen, The Taiping Revolutionary Movement 22–23 (1973) and early accomplice of Hong Xiuquan, and an important leader during the Ta ...
destroyed the idol and desecrated the temple to Gan in the 1840s.
Xiang later became one of the early bases of the
Taiping.
Sources
Spence, Jonathan. ''God's Chinese Son'' (New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 1996) p. 100, 110
References
See also
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Xiang Army
file:Zeng Guofan.png, 150px, Zeng Guofan, the leader of the Xiang Army
The Xiang Army or Hunan Army () was a standing army organized by Zeng Guofan from existing regional and village militia forces called ''tuanlian'' to contain the Taiping Rebel ...
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Xiang Rong
Geography of Guangxi
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