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God Worshipping Society
The
God Worshipping Society
(拜上帝教) was a
heterodox
Christian
sect founded in 1843 by
Hong Xiuquan
,
Feng Yunshan
and
Hong Rengan
in Hua County (花縣; present-day
Huadu District
,
Guangdong
); it soon spread to
Guangxi
. On the 11th day of the first lunar month of 1851, which was also Hong Xiuquan's birthday, the God Worshipping Society proclaimed the
Jintian Uprising
against the ruling
Qing dynasty
, and declared the formation of the
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom
, thus beginning the
Taiping Rebellion
, which has been described as the "most gigantic man-made disaster" of the nineteenth century.
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