Shi Dakai (1820-1863) (石達開), also known as Wing King (Lord of Five Thousand Years}, was a commander in the Taiping Rebellion. The Taiping Rebellion or Rebellion of Great Peace was a large-scale Revolt against the authority and forces of the Qing Government in China He eventually became disgusted with the continuing in-fighting amongst Hong Xiuquan's followers. Hóng Xiùquán ( January 1 1814 &ndash June 1 1864 born Hong Renkun (洪仁坤 Courtesy name Huoxiu (火秀 was a Hakka Chinese who He was of half-Hakka and half-Zhuang parentage. The Hakkas ( Hakka language: Hak-kâ; Mandarin Chinese: Kèjiā) are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people who live predominantly Shi, along with the rest of his family, became followers of the teachings of Hong in 1849. [1]
Disillusioned, Shi led an army of 100,000 out of the Taiping capital in 1857. He fought six years throughout central China against the much larger armies of the Qing Dynasty. Not to be confused with Qin Dynasty, the first dynasty of Imperial China On the banks of the Dadu, a river in Sichuan, he stopped for three days to celebrate the birth of a son, as he was a prince of the Heavenly Kingdom. The Dadu River (大渡河 a tributary of the Yangtze, also known as the Tatu River, is located in the Sichuan province of China. ( Postal map spelling: Szechwan and Szechuan) is a province in western China with its capital in Chengdu. The Qing finally caught up with Shi Dakai and although pleading that he quickly be killed and that the 2,000 men who were the faithful remnants of his troops be spared, he was slowly dismembered and all his men were massacred.
Sources
- Hessler, Peter. Peter Hessler (b June 14, 1968) is an American writer and Journalist. River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze, 54, 56. ISBN 0060855029.
References
- ^ Spence, Jonathan. God's Chinese Son, 114. ISBN 0393315568.
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