Taiping Document Research

The Taiping official documents is an important reference of our research to understand the history of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. First, by carding the history of the taiping heavenly kingdom official document, summing up every stage of the document in the practice, clerical staff, instrument system and style appearance changes and characteristics of the rendered. Second, the etheric flat to the kingdom of heaven is reformed and innovation of official document as the center, analysis of the taiping heavenly kingdom official document distinctive features. At the same time, place the taiping heavenly kingdom official document under the historical background, analysis the difference between the taiping heavenly kingdom official document and contemporary the qing court documents and contact. Further in-depth study from "compare",find the limits of feudal nature and development of taiping heavenly kingdom official document. Based on the perspective of cultural interpretation of the taiping heavenly kingdom official document for macroscopic analysis, elaborated the taiping heavenly kingdom official document and political system, western culture, Chinese folk custom and social mentality in close contact. To coordinate, dig the evolution of the taiping heavenly kingdom official document to modern development brought about by the new document factors, know the history of the taiping heavenly kingdom official document value and practical significance.As the change of revolutionary situation, the taiping heavenly kingdom official document experienced different stages of development. Before the Jintian uprising, Hong xiuquan used a different propaganda way instead of paper documents, such as poetry and password, which laid a broad mass base for the revolution. From those early poetic creation and documents, the farmers revolutionary leader already began to have the consciousness of the official document. Hong xiuquan established Yongan organizational system. The taiping heavenly kingdom used official documents to regulate the army discipline and management of social order. Specification of official document format and building system of official document for the first time, which marked the shape of the taiping heavenly kingdom official document. With its capital in Nanjing, a large number of Jiangnan scholar joined the paperwork of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. Division of labor in document organization was increasingly reasonable. According to the government need, new type of official document appeared constantly. Official document writing and processing system was increasingly perfect. The taiping heavenly kingdom official document came to a mature stage. Document processing efficiency was high, and in the long-term practice of writing, formed a characteristic different from that of the feudal dynasty official document. Tianjing incident gave a heavy blow to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and paperwork, the paperwork institutions was rebuilt in the end after several twists and turn. After1856, the revolutionary situation changed dramatically. The taiping heavenly kingdom official document has continuously explored. On the one hand, innovation on system of official document in official document and adopted many positive and effective measures; on the other hand, reformed the style of official document,further abolished floating blarney, advocating up a pragmatic style, to open new ethos of the modern document writing. Revolution of the taiping heavenly kingdom failed under the double blow of the Qing dynasty and the foreigners.Hong xiuquan indulged in worship of god all day long. The document also showed a dependence on religion and superstition. Official document of the mandatory authority was also weakened. Processing efficiency of official document was greatly reduced, the taiping heavenly kingdom official document gradually declined with the revolution.Taiping Heavenly Kingdom by the feudal official documents to a great extent. Written in languages, skills, document system and other aspects of the feudal Qing Dynasty official documents as a representative of a certain inherited. At the time of writing skill, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom also chosen ancient documents writing skills, aiming at enemy weaknesses,such as cited historical facts, figures, psychological analysis techniques. In the document system, the feudal character of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom document was obvious. In essence, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom document failed to break away from the feudal nature. Document guiding ideology was not scientific, the talent level was low, the talent system unreasonable factors impede and restrict the development of Taiping official documents.The Taiping official documents played a part as the transition stage in the development history of the ancient documents. Compared with the previous peasant uprising document, the taiping heavenly kingdom official document had inherited revolutionary sprite. Due to the political system was extremely characteristic, official documents showed more unique features. The taiping heavenly kingdom created many new document types. Different from the previous documents, poetry, religion language, dialect, revolutionary lingo were widely used in the taiping official document. Document content rich diversity, which contained morals education, women’s rights, restore agricultural production, encourage the development of the industrial and commercial policy. The taiping heavenly kingdom also used official document as a diplomacy tool which helped to promote the development of trade and religious propaganda. The taiping heavenly kingdom was outstanding in official document work. Any other peasant uprising in the history was difficult to compare with the taiping heavenly kingdom in document work. Although the writing normative aspects was not ideal, However, compared with the "official document backlog" in Qing dynasty, the popular writing style of Taiping official document was concise and fluent to some extent which accelerated the circulation of documents, improved administrative efficiency and has a positive significance to the modern official document.The taiping heavenly kingdom not only had a complete organization, but also had their own values. The corresponding social practice activities appeared around the values. Traditional culture and western culture collided with each other. Under the background, the taiping heavenly kingdom official document reflected the change of political system, and also reflected the characteristics of the western culture and Chinese folk customs. It also reflected the people in this era of social psychology and mentality of the intimate contact with clerical staff.The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom document in the history of the development of ancient document belongs to the transitional stage. It follows the part of feudal language, in the format and the system also inherited some of the previous generation of document. History was not long, but the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom document had experienced several stages of development and evolution, this change was regular. Language had evolved from simple to complex, from less to more trend; aspects of document processing system for division of clear and demand became more refined. The document validity with the decline the revolutionary situation experienced strong to weak. The evolution of the Taiping document was in accordance with the development of the ancient official documents. Document played an "important role double-edged sword" in the Taiping revolution. In the anti Qing struggle, though, to complete the outstanding revolutionary propaganda work, but it also became an important reference for the Qing government to crack the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom military strategy. Although the Taiping regime was only more than ten years of history, but the revolution affected modern Chinese. Taiping documents also was not a small impact to modern China ideological and cultural circles. The revolutionary sprite and the religion led modern people of salvaging the country roads and deep development of national culture. The Taiping document’s spirit of reform opened the new atmosphere of modern official document writing, advocating simple and smooth style, which still has a positive practical significance.