Describe the background of Hong Xiuquan's founding worship of God.

Hong Xiuquan was born in a farming and reading family. At the age of seven, I went to school in the village bookstore and was familiar with the four books and five classics. The elders in the village are very optimistic that Hong Xiuquan can win fame and honor, but he failed in three rural examinations. After losing the election for the third time in Guangzhou, he was already 25 years old (1837, he was regarded as 1 year old when he was born). After this blow, he was seriously ill and was once in a coma. An old man said to him in his illusion: by God's will, he was ordered to come to earth to slay the devil. From then on, Hong Xiuquan was taciturn and behaved strangely. At this time, Hong Xiuquan was not satisfied with the failure of the exam. Six years later, in the spring of 1843, he took the provincial examination in Guangzhou again, and the result ended in failure.

In the 16th year of Qing Daoguang (1836), Hong Xiuquan received "Advice from Christian Liang Fa" when he was taking the exam in Guangzhou. After careful reading, he was moved by preaching the Christian meaning of God and sprouted the idea of believing in God and pursuing equality for all. [2] Comparing the contents of the book with my hallucinations when I was seriously ill before, I think that I punished the devil by God's orders, abandoned the book of Confucius and Mencius, stopped being a Confucian scholar and converted to Christian teachings, and simply replaced the Confucius memorial tablet at home with God's memorial tablet. Although he had never read the Bible, Hong Xiuquan began to spread the Christian doctrine he understood to everyone, calling it "the worship of God".

Hong Xiuquan made a special trip to Guangzhou to study Christian teachings, but he was not baptized because of "impure faith". Later, he claimed to be the second son of God and called Jesus a brother in heaven, and used this as a means to organize and manage the peasant uprising team. Although the worship of God benefits from Christianity, it is very different from Christianity in many ways. Hong Xiuquan launched an anti-Qing armed uprising, and established the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom with the worship organizations and members as the basic force.