Meet Jesus Christ's Chinese Brother | The Life & Times of Hong Xiuquan
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Kevin Macleod - Hidden Past
Chinese Classical Troupe of Beijing - Feast Away in Quit Palace
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Bill Conti - Gonna Fly Now
Courtney Kania Young covering Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Kevin Macleod - Prelude and Action
Kevin Macleod - Investigations
Kevin Macleod - Onion Capers
Nero's Day at Disneyland - Civilizing People
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ayy jack my balls hurt
@@divinity8844 bruh
No u cant make 10 minutes videos instead 5 minutes!
"His mahogony-lined palace"...was "mahogony" a word you were paid to put in? It just seemed so random.
Wait a minute... Is this the guy jet li was fighting in once upon a time in China 2, The guy everyone who thought was bulletproof but actually was just wearing hidden armor
You forgot all the craziness that happened to Hong after he died. His remains were buried by his followers, then exhumed by the enemy forces. His corpse was beheaded and burned, and then reburied, only to be later re-exhumed, fully cremated, and blasted out of a canon so that he would never have a “Final resting place”.
damn the overkill
The resentment is strong 🤣
"Grind his bones to dust, feed the dust to the wolves, and blow up the wolves!"
@@Skadi609 Millions of people perished in his rebellion and it took 11 years to quell it. That's a big reason for the Chinese to hate your bones
That'll do pig... that'll do
So he repeatedly failed a test on Confucius and then had a personal vandetta against Confucius.
We've all been there
So that means he had a big love hate relationship with Confucius. Maybe he simply hated Confucius. Or he might have had a distant relationship with Confucius. Who knows?
@Axiom Steel And also completely inefficient and outdated. It is like reciting the steps and procedures of making stone tools word by word in a period when everyone has a personal AI assistant.
Not really, according to Hong, Confucius is in the presence of God, he just got the bamboo cane for making his name more revered than that of God.
@fabRic_jAck Imagine the world today had china stressed technological development instead of philosophy
Lmfao
Honestly, starting a revolution because you failed an exam is a mood for me.
Sounds like something that would happen in 2020.
honestly, same
That how Hitler get over Germany. He fail it's Art exam.
@@sorban5352 bruh he didn't fail, he got rejected because he can't draw humans (but his drawing of nature is good tho)
@@johanmikkael6903 Fail, rejected...same same
And it was a joke...
Just a little reminder that this guys war killed *TEN* *TIMES* as many people Napoleons did
Ohhhhhh
Just shows you what constant crushed dreams and Religion can do for you.
pretty much every war in china costs 10 times more than any war on the entire planet
can someone romanticize Taiping for us?
Mostly due to famine and disease, which was partially the result of the general collapse of the whole of Southern China to not only this but various other rebellions as well as the Opium War.
Besides which, both the Taiping and the Qing were extremely ruthless and bigoted, and carried out ethnic cleansing campaigns as well as scorched earth policies.
It's generally compared more to the Thirty Years War, in that it was really more a highly chaotic situation where fighting and killing became one of the few ways to avoid starvation. Another comparison might be the Nazi-Soviet War since it was a total war where both sides were b*stards who just wanted to annihilate the other.
Basically, Napoleon et al killed less because they weren't total maniacs but also because they actually knew what they were doing.
oh baby, the heavenly kingdom finally getting some love. The whole Taiping Rebellion sounds like a really bad alt-history that somehow really happened
also it was one of the bloodiest wars in human history that happened the same time as the civil war
@@Wisdomcucco The "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom of Peace" (official name) caused nearly 20 to 30 Million dead people.
To me, it sounds like "bad fanfiction idea that gets deconstructed/has realistic consequences play out" but I guess "bad alt-history" works.
Yeah pretty much, the backstory makes you go "WTF!"
Most bullshit alt-history has a much more tame premise
History is so stupidly fun and unpredictable. It's my favourite story. Props to the writer.
The name's randy random. Glad you like my story.
yes God is indeed the best
@@dnm3732 Yeah sure buddy. I suppose we can blame god for every death and genocide etc. that ever happened.
@@johkupohkuxd1697 dude I think you should calm down because you are on the internet and unless you want to start a massive argument beyond your control things are going to get ugly.
Just like 2020.
Student fails exam 4 times and burns all textbooks out of frustration; other frustrated students help and become a public nuisance.
Reminds me a lot of University
This man is now my favourite historical character. Fails his exam, has an anxious breakdown, accidentally starts a cult and then turns it into a huge peasants revolt. Mad man
Does the cult-starting look accidental to you?
he did not 'accidentally' start a cult, he was already extremely mentally ill and the Hakka felt oppressed, so he started a cult.
It is accidental
@@randomnessrules4971 getting millions of followers kinda does though haha
mad lad
It is my official headcanon that Hong Xiquan is the long lost descendant of Jan van Liden who somehow ended up in China to continue Jan’s Legacy
I was once in a weird debate competition where all the debaters were key players of the Taiping Rebellion and I played out this headcanon. Made it so Nanjing was renamed New Jerusalem, established religious communism and imported a Dutch guy I called Jan van Leiden to try to grant the Heavenly Kingdom legitimacy. It didn’t work and France and the UK still killed everyone, but the headcanon is recorded in somewhere in a UPenn file
@@Apramos77 Bro, that was a wild comment to read
@@Apramos77 im so lost
@@Apramos77 Wow that almost sounded vaguely possible!
@@Apramos77 Headcanon you write down in a file somewhere isn't headcanon anymore, it's just a story.
“Dropout mall ninja who declared himself the son of god” is such a mood. I dunno what mood it is though.
In the distance... BIG MOOD!
*Paul Blart: Mall Christ*
What do you mood?
Seems to be some social media barbarism.
It’s the mood of: when you are sick of other people saying that they are gonna do what you asked them to and just do it yourself
Oh, "manna" - I thought you said "mana." Then again, the idea of a wizard that relies entirely on the power of bread would be totally dope in any setting.
Sounds like a great premise for a D&D character
You should do a video sometime about a Polynesian figure so you can discuss the concept of mana
@@christopherjohnson3311 Ooh, interesting idea!
Like the Culinaromancer from Runescape
@@JackRackam I'll be waiting patiently for a video on Kamehameha the Great or Queen Liliuokani
One of my favorite ways of putting Chinese history into perspective is that the American Civil War and the Taiping Rebellion both happened at the same exact time, yet the Taiping Rebellion killed literally 30 times as many people.
Nobody talked about this one because it was caused by religion, and it's not American. Thats already 2 huge blows to be recognized in Historical noteworthiness.
Must be the other conflicts that came up alongside this Chinese battle royale in the mid-19th Century, & I'd give you a list of examples:
-At the same time around the western fringes of Qing China, they have to stop the Miao, Dzungars, and Panthayans, while skirmishing with the Russians on Outer Manchuria
-The Mexican War, which fueled the flames of the US Civil War
-The Mexican Civil War, alongside the French Intervention in Mexico
-Third Carlist War in Spain, as Spain tries to annex the Dominican Republic in the Restoration War while fighting Rebels in the Ten Years War
-2nd Schleswig & Brothers War in Germany
-Chile's Pacific War against Peru & Bolivia
-Brazil's Separatist rebellions
-War of the Grand Alliance (the Paraguayan hugbox) by Brazil & Argentina
-Tokugawa Japan's ordeal with American (& the West's) gunboats, leading to the Tokugawa freefall that was the Boshin War & the Meiji Restoration
-A January Uprising in Russian Poland
I really need a global demographic statistics graph between 1846-1870, so that I can conclude how many casualties the Great Powers inflicted on humanity at this time.
Edit: saw some massive blanks for Brazil, besides the Triple Alliance hugbox
@@jakespacepiratee3740 yeah because if you want to talk about things like these in mainstream media or those that many people can see they just gonna cause civil war and really egoistical statements without responsibility, good thing this channel had less to none people who are like that
more like 300 times
@@shinsenshogun900 Brazil's what?
If only Hong Xiuquan had noticed he had forgot to put his name on top of the exam
Chinese man: declares himself the Christ.
Shoko Asahara 100 years later: “Ok, how about that, but with more gas bombings...”
* Brother of Christ
I mean to be fair Asahara’s kill count is pitiful compared to Hong’s, the man started a war deadlier than World War 1.
wasnt there an arab fellow that did the same thing in 7th centuary?
@@ANSELAbitsxb na
@@tekmilletbirummet4808 You know, that failed businessman turned bandit with joke religion that turned prophet messiah pedo when people started taking him seriously.
He claimed similar things, also plagiarized and made up things as it suited him, he went on epic trips when kicked rocks and spoke to ants while he was high. Cmon I'm sure you know who I'm talking about?
Speaking of Asian brothers of Jesus, there's also a Japanese legend of Isukiri, a Japanese brother of Jesus who apparently took His place on the Cross. There's even a town in Japan that claims to have the grave of Jesus, and a Japanese family who claim to be His descendants.
@nonya business Historical Asians interpreting Christianity is always a good source of WTF.
this remind me of the last part of Jojo...
There's also a Korean religion where Jesus gets a Mission Failed moment which is taken up by a guy with a gun.
Casually took his place...
Yea seen a video on this im pretty sure.
There is also a Huangchao rebellion that is also famous in Chinese history. In the late Tang Dynasty, a guy failed the exam and then rebelled against the government. He slew from southern China to the north and looted the capital, killed 8 million people. There is also the Li Zicheng uprising at the end of the Ming Dynasty. A postman was fired by the government and then began to rebel, eventually let the emperor commit suicide. Many such stories are in Chinese history.
Every dynasty started as rebellion from the tyranny of the previous one... if that guy ddnot die, he could have started another dynasty...
Let's face it, if we went over every instance in Chinese history of some dude deciding to declare himself emperor and start a civil war or peasant revolt, we'd be here all day.
Hell, a single one of those was enough to spawn a book that's thick enough to be divided into multiple books for publication.
@@selectivepontification8766 you mean the romance of the three kingdoms
Isn't that also the story of the Han dynasty?
A military officer failing a task, realizing the punishment would be death, so he whips a peasant revolt and establish THE Han dynasty?
the recent uprising is atheism CCP leader Mao
One of the problems that led to this guy repeatedly failing civil service exams was likely that these civil service exams were quite likely rigged by this point. Top in your class from the provinces gets exceeded by mediocre students from Beijing once or twice, it's an outlier, 3rd and 4th time, definitely a fix.
Its funny at the same time because the tests were supposed to test your civil governance skills, and yet Hong demonstrated far greater skills than most civil servants despite failing the test so many times. One of the positives of the Taiping Rebels, as noted by Christian missionaries and foreign supporters, is that they had a far superior civil and military organizational capability compared to the Qing. For a man leading an army of militias and peasants, he was able to achieve what 99.999% of Qing scholars and officials couldn't even dream of doing.
Sounds like the Qing brought this upon themselves.
Good to see that education has more or less been the same now as it was over a century ago..
just the same as the college entrance exam in nowadays china……
@@Jake-dh9qk Imagine if they won? How assertive would China be?
"... and this is your heavenly house, and this is your heavenly car, and you may ask yourself 'how did I get here?'"
Same as it ever was
Last time I was this early Da Qin (Rome) executed Hong Xiuquan’s Jewish Brother
would have been interesting to have a new kind of christianity
@@sinoroman It would of honestly just cause more issues within the system we already have: Catholicism, Protestantism, Orthodoxy, Copticism, Nestorianism, Catharism, Lollardism, Aryanism, Anglicanism and Calvinism and more. We don't need another
The romans killed him with the help of the tribe.
@@LeBaron101 Arianism and Lollard are extinct though. And even if they weren't, there are already thousands of different denominations even just within the big three, that it wouldn't matter to add another one or 30.
@@sinoroman it would be Chinese Mormonism, from the same era and just as Divisive.
Confucius: the one guy who ended making a book where there's a test to write the entire book and study for more than 20 to 50 years and simply one to have good morals. Good for the religion, but pretty insane for the test of it. And this guy destroyed it.
Well, wouldn't you get frustrated for failing an exam four times dealing with Confucian texts?
@@maseoembry4165 yes. But the exam isn't just a specific piece of the book for Confuciunism, but the entire bloody book. And slight deviation, immediate fail and before that more than 20 to 50 years to study, a friend of mine whose father is from China and he said it was the most frustrating thing his father had ever done but he managed to get it done on the third try. So he said, "never is he going to do it."
@@arturochambers27 what he doesnt mention in the video is that after remembering everything for the provincial exam u can also take part in the imperial exams if u pass. The imperial exam makes more sense since instead of remembering everything u only need to analyse and make sense of the text which u can write how down the way u interpret the text amd ur opinioms on it and it will be hand corrected by the emperor himself. granted u still need to pass the extremely difficult exam for this and its still not easy to actually succeed the imperial test
@@bingyifg yep indeed, but the Imperial test my friend's father would say was easier. I also nanaged to read the entire book by Confucius completely in one sitting. It was dense.
@@arturochambers27 i would say its easier to write but not easy to pass as in u have no idea how the emperor is gonna perceive ur interpretations
I like how this guy causes 30 million deaths and dies because he ate a bunch of weeds. That sounds like something you'd see in someone's poorly rolled D&D paladin.
"Hong Xiuquan ate all the weeds in his front lawn, fell over dead, and the Taiping Kingdom immediately collapsed."
Hahahahahahahahahaha!
That is the funniest ending to a story I have heard on the internet.
hey got carried away by his vision...
To be far by that point the Qing were besieging Nanjing it’s not like there was hope for the rebellion at that point
Fun fact: the Legalists were most likely the group responsible for implementing the Imperial Civil Service Exam since they were hugely in favor of meritocracy and rule of law which is why the Chinese government bureaucracy has survived for well over 2000 years. The Han dynasty inherited the bureaucracy that the Legalists setup and immediately subverted the whole fucking thing because that is what Confucius would do.
China has always needed a large civil administration to keep people from starving and rebelling, hence their persistent autocracy for over 2000 years. As such the bureaucracy has generally been large and somewhat self-sufficient. It's this institutional strength that held China together for so long, but it probably wasn't robust enough to withstand ambitions from European powers in the 1800s
If anything the Civil Service Exam has been a great contribution to civilization since unlike electing your judges, magistrates, and the needed wheels of beaurucracy which is dangerous (eg. USA), you test people's capacity to serve the government.
@@boozecruiser Nah, that institution was what kept China in check from ambition of the west at the end of the Qing Dynasty and basically extended its life for so long. Zeng Guofan, Zuo Zongtang, and Li Hongzhang literally carried what the dying corpse that was the Qing empire with the corpse still trying to kill them and the enemy still at the gates. The Qing imperial family and their entire aristocracy basically controlled the imperial court in the early years of the Qing because of the distrust of the ethnic Han. Opium War changed everything and basically with the Taiping rebellion, the Imperial family lost control of the south and found that their aristocratic banners that they had relied on so long, absolutely trash. Literally the Qing relied on the Imperial Civil Service Exam at the end of the dynasty.
Which is why Yuan Shikai, who was an ally of Li Hongzhang was able to dissolve the dynasty at the end. Like the imperial family is the reason why many of these top notch officials couldn't modernize China. Had a more competent Dynasty replaced the Ming and allowed the Han chinese (basically the brains of the empire) to take power with in China, they wouldn't have fallen behind in the first place.
Well it was horribly corrupt it’s more so like the literacy tests they would give out to black and poor people in the south. Unless you do it completely perfectly there is no way for a poor farmhand kid to pass.
even then the test can be interpreted any way and you can be failed any way. So unless you bribe someone there is practically no way for you to get into the civil service unless you have a family member already in the civil service, or your family is really rich.
@@kekero540 My understanding of the early implementation of the Civil Service Exam from the Legalists was that they didn't care about reciting poems from some dead asshole; the exams would actually ask hard policy questions concerning current or future events within the nation and ask the exam-takers to justify their answer and how to implement the policy in an essay format. This is then compared with what the current top officials are actually planning on implementing and extra points is given to students that thought about technical/political issues that the officials had not thought of. The Legalists were extremely efficient because of they disregard their own personal pride for the sake of the nation they serve; if someone from the exams had a better idea, then they simply own up to it and adopt the new idea.
One of the reasons why the state of Qin survived and even dominated the Warring States Period was because Legalists took hold in that state when the ruling Qin monarch decided that the nobility should fuck off and invited the Legalist Shang Yang as the new prime minister.
The weirdest part of this for me is that a very similar event happened in Brazil during the 19th century, in which a priest also pretty much declared a theocracy and fended off the government's army in more than 3 occasions. Look it up, it's called the Canudos Rebelion (Revolta de Canudos)
Literally I was researching 19th century Brazil a week ago and never found this, that's insane
@@JackRackam it happened two times, one was the Canudos War, the other was the Constestado War in 1910
Because of this reply I I went to research La Guerra de Canudos; but I wasn't expecting the detailed massacre that happened in what pretty much was an social class war.
@@elg6197 yeah, our army massacred their own. They were just living by themselves, than the government being who it is stepped in and killed everyone. They say that only four people survived. In the folk tales, they said that you can still hear the screams of the agonizing people while in there, and the ruins of the place are filled with bullets.
@@alvarotolentino1589 it's almost like the Christian/pope kingdoms with "the greatest social reformer that ever lived/Jesus" as their role model.. DON'T WANT the lives of the people to improve in any way/shape/or form... how ironic.
I keep getting surprised by how little you exaggerate these stories when I inevitably look them up. "theres no way he died because of a mistranslation of the word manna" *nope, true*
His abrupt mentions of their deaths is the most hilarious parts of these videos
I'm a Chinese history expert and found this rendition outstanding. Even the pronunciation of Hong Xiuquan was very good. Good job in confining a ton of history in 10 minutes. My hat is off to you. Anybody interested in learning more should read God's Chinese Son by Jonathan Spence.
You have any credentials to back up that claim?
@@Tubeite Which claim are you referring to
Spence is awesome - thanks!
Mr. Chinese guy, write on youtube ,,Chinese letters Bible". Jesus is in the chinese ideograms. Thank me later
@@zenodotusofathens2122 do the research and see the Bible in your ideograms from chinese ,, alphabet"
Man, this vid’s story makes me remember of this Austrian fellow that failed an art school exam or whatever and started a war or something idk. Some guys just go crazy after they fail an exam I guess
Hitler never claimed to be Jesus Christ's brother though
@@cheeto4027 Yeah, but claimed the Germanic Race as the holy race.
@@cheeto4027 yes, but he was a vegan
Haha. That australian guy sounds crazy, they do call it a land down under for a reason!
I heard something about that..but it'll never go anywhere I'm sure ....
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience"
I see what you did there, Jacky boy.
What did he do?
@@cinesiosilva8793 He referenced Screen Rant's Pitch Meeting-series by Ryan George. It's a phrase Ryan uses in his videos.
I was looking in the comments for this.
References to other RUclips creators are tight!
I like how history can change from serious to comedic depending on the tone the guy who narrates and writes it takes on
That's why history is my favorite school subject (after biology) and that's why i subscribed to this channel, this is top of the notch commedy, and even educates you
“Seperate but equal”
Nervous American sweat
Plessy v. Ferguson all the way baby!
What are you talking about
One big issue often forgotten with the civil service exam, both in China & many places around the world today, is that they encourage homogeneous thought & intellectual stagnation.
qing was a big exception, as most dynasties before them had at least some encouragement
Your right, when your entire government is built on interpreting a series of old books, there isn't much room for adaptation or improvement. It's generally not good to base any philosophical/moral system on a bunch of old books. Who would ever do such a thing?
I mean isnt it the point of the existance of a government? Most those of who incharge never like change like at all even if its for the better
The bigger issue on the whole concept of meritocracy is: Who defines the merit? Who judges the merit? Once you realize that, then you can see how every system has already been meritocratic - we just didn't agree with what they defined as merit.
If anything Civil Service Exam prevents the concept of electing an inept person on a job where a professional is needed, yes I'm ribbing the USA because they elect their judges, their sherriffs, and even good lord their coroners, one of the main reason why Civil Service is needed is that it determines which ones are more qualified and with the proper skills for the job.
Hitler, doesn't het into artschool:
-O No
This is a pattern
The fact that starting a revolution is easier than passing an exam is concerning to me
@Chicken Stealer
You forget that they got into uni first then they dropped out. Hitler never got into art school in the first place.
@@joellaz9836 and this guy didn’t get into “uni” either
And this is why the democrats want college to be free
What often happens is a society has a system to make rising up the social hierarchy for the average person even if they have to work harder. What often happens is over time an elite group gets imbedded at the top and maintains their position through nepotism. The tests to get in become mostly if not entirely for show and highly intelligent people who worked hard notice a pattern on who passes and who doesn't. When you combine this with an incompetent/corrupt leadership the rejects realize it is time to rebel and often get far if not succeed due to the aforementioned problem.
That little pamphlet he got from the missionary wasn't so little. It was a massive text that sinified protestant theology and Biblical exegesis. Its an interesting text and its too bad it never got translated to English.
Also he instituted his own scholarly exams built around a retooling of the same Confucian classics he burned. This had a tremendous effect on the waning of Confucianism. It was the first time in mainland China the Confucian texts got challenged so blatantly. Even the Buddhists had to navigate around them skillfully when they touched down in China. Between the events of Taiping and the growing Kokugaku movement in Japan that did the same thing but with Japanese texts instead of the Bible, Confucianism's fate was sealed in East Asia. Now its influence is still there in East Asian society, but its much subtler and less outwardly stated.
There's a few things the video skimps on, but it tells the overarching story well enough.
The Taiping Rebellion arguably soured China on the idea of Christianity being accepted as a mainstream faith (and it was already facing an uphill battle). It's only in the 21st Century that Christianity becomes less than verboten.
Hong was a Hakka Chinese, an ethnic subgroup that has a few distinct cultural practices from the broader Han Chinese group they were nominally part of. The Taiping Rebellion led to Qing suppression and ethnic cleansing of Hakka Chinese, which is why they make up a significant portion of the Chinese diaspora living outside the mainland.
Also, a large part of the support Hong got was due to the Qing being seen as foreign overlords - as in, ethnically and culturally foreign to China. That made a lot of Han Chinese at least go along with the rebellion in the hopes of overthrowing the Manchu elite.
More than just a few distinct practices, but pretty much discriminated by local Cantonese and Hokkien speaking peoples. No one really knows where the Khek came from considering there are no written records, but what we know is that they came north and settled south. Basically just "immigrant stealing muh jobs muh land muh wife". That's why the locals would call them Hakka as an insult, when the preferred term is Khek, but currently no one really cares.
@@johannapfelburg6286 From what I read the Hakkas and Cantonese were always fighting mainly because the Hakka were always known for stirring up trouble since they didn't have access to good farms like the local Cantonese did. They were always unsatisfied with their situation and always tried to fight despite being outnumbered 10:1 in Southern China. They eventually got glorified when the 1911 Revolution and Sun Yat Sen would call back to the Taiping Hakkas as inspiration for their revolution. Then the image of Rebel-like Hakkas would become even more glorified during the communist revolution before the Sino-Japanese war when Mao's party would be composed of a majority of Hakkas. Later at the end of the Sino-Japanese war and the final civil war between the Communists and Nationalists, the Hakkas would continue to dominate the new communist party of China. Essentially, hard times create strong men and this was the exact case. The Hakkas were pushed into hardship and eventually got molded by it. One of the pride Hakkas hold onto is their sense of rebel-hood.
@@johannapfelburg6286 khek and hak are the same word pronounced in different dialects (I'm hakka, I'll call myself hakka ngin) khek is the same word pronounced in hokkien
@@johannapfelburg6286my family is Hakka and they all call themselves Hakka
@@user-on6db4rf4s if you ignore the context of the term 家 then sure, that's what it means, "guest people". Unfortunately in this case 家 is added as a derogatory term, similar in a sense to 家伙. At least that's how it was explained to me by my Khek family.
I was not expecting Contrapoints Tabby to show up in a historical video about eastern Jesus but here we are
I think, if we were actually there, things would have seemed a lot more probable and reasonable. I mean, if I conquered 3 cities at once I'd start to believe God chose me too!
Europe: "Pathetic."
@@jakespacepiratee3740 wonder why dont europe adopted that tactic of basically just jumping over cities causing cassualties
The old way you made your videos were more fun to watch but I understand that they are more work to make.
Yeah i miss the old ones. I seem to remember a lot from the old ones because of the funny way everything moved (like a deer falling down the stairs) but with these new once I have a hard time remembering half of it
I like the new ones better personally! It's nice to have a more consistent videos and they're good!
I agree. Maybe he could bring out the old style occasionally for special episodes or something?
Yeah I think a quality is better than quantity so I wish he would just make less videos but they are like the old ones
So, what you're saying is this guy is Kung Fu Action Jesus?
He would be, if he had any personal combat skills 😕
you're thinking of Muhammad
one of the best generals in the world
I see you are a man of culture
Damn he could be one 😂
I really want an anime version of this now
me too
"Hong's Bizzare Adventures"
There is one, based on Japan's Shoko Asahara, the founder of Aum Shinrikyo. But I rather not you watch it because it's cultic
"Barely an inconvenience" im sure you were paid to say that :p
I dropped my fork when I heard that 🤧🤧🤧
A little more on those Imperial exams - because they lasted for three days, and the compound could not be opened under *any* circumstances, they actually had regulations about what to do if someone was to die mid-exam. (And people did die mid-exam, because there were plenty of 60-odd year old candidates, and food and water was self-provided). The procedure was to wrap the body in straw mats and hoist it over the compound wall, where someone on the other side (hopefully) catches it.
Oh also, they had pretty elaborate anti-cheating mechanisms for their time. At the end of every day, inspectors will come round and mark where you had written to - if a paper had uneven progress (like, half a page on Day 1, then 3 pages on Day 2), it was considered suspect. Candidates did not write their names on the papers either, but were simply marked by stall numbers, so invigilators and assessors had no real idea who was who and couldn't favour anyone.
I have a chinese history exam coming up and this really helped
I now know what to do when i fail
Its good that Jack didn't tell about the collapse of the Taiping, since it involves Nanjing being massacred Carthage-style (and later recolonized) and Xiuquan's son (a 14-year-old) being executed by slow slicing (or, as we most commonly know it, death by a thousand cuts)
Did not expect that sneaky ContraPoints. A welcome surprise though.
A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
I dunno about that
Little rotten egg nestled into an otherwise well done video
this is definitely my favorite story you've told, closely followed by the one on Van Leiden and Fritz Duquesne. In short, you're the best youtuber out there, keep up the good work!
come to think of it, the top ones will always be ones that have " A V I S I O N " involved
Why do I get "Final Fantasy" vibes from this guy?
Oddly religious, Demon-Slaying Sword, University Dropout, Revolutionary against a Tyrannical government, insane, etc.
"More turbulence then the Challenger"... that's one hell of a description right there
FUN FACT: William Walker's mercenary friend, Frederick Townsend Ward and Charles Gordon (of Khartoum fame) were instrumental in defeating Hong Xiuquan. Although by the war's end the death toll neared 20 million which is insane.
Chinese Christian Converts when a crazy University dropout says he is the Brother of Jesus: "I like your funny words, Magic man!"
Hong’s followers was never been Christians
@@abrandpluckedoutofthefire8043 Hong himself was. It was an offshoot but still Christian, like Jehovah's Witnesses or Mormons.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Hong, Joseph Smith , Muhammad and Charles Taze Russell are not Christians
@@abrandpluckedoutofthefire8043 Of course Muhammad was not Christian, he was Islamic.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Of
course Muhammad was not Christian,he was Islamic. Of
course Charles was not Christian,he was JW. Of course Joseph was not Christian,he was Mormon. Of
course …
USA civil war: we fight for freedom of slaves
Qing civilwar : hey im a brother of Jesus lets launch a civil war nothing can go wrong
Hahaha! No.
American Civil War: Southerners - we fight to keep slavery. / Northerners - we fight to prevent states from seceding and to prevent slavery from expanding and competing with our industrial production.
@@samrevlej9331 Yeah he compared the defenders and the revolutioners for some reason. The more accurate thing to say for his comment is: america: we are trying to keep our land while still freeing slaves at the same time!
Qing: we just want to stay as a country like damn
Lmao the fought to stop states leaving
@@ChristianAuditore14The primary reason why the South fought for secession was because of the anti-slavery laws. Of course, the average Southern person didn’t own slaves but people end up fighting for the interests of the rich all the time.
@@samrevlej9331no it was about stopping slavery read a book
The moral of this story is don't fail big super tests (TM). You'll end up with a bloody civil war.
The fact that their was a man running around China calling himself The brother of Jesus… during the Victorian era is insane to me.
Oh this clusterf*ck, the Taiping Rebellion! This can be the craziest video on this channel and this is saying something.
My God, not only fun and interesting history content, but also all the memes and references from other channels I already liked. Consider me subscribed, sir!
Hahah! Did NOT expect contrapoint SMASH, 10/10.
My day be so fine
Then boom a breadtuber
@@NeoDerikik that sounds familiar, I'm pretty sure I've heard it before, but what does it mean in this context?
@@mmouse1886 Are you asking about the meme template or the term "breadtuber"? Cause the template is from that recent Clone High craze, and I used it in this context to express my disdain for BreadTube - a clique of libertarian socialist youtubers, which ContraPoints (that catgirl with a bat) is a member (and pretty much an unofficial leader) of.
@@NeoDerikik I meant more of Breadtube, and yeah I agree with you. I knew about the template, I just hadn't heard breadtube in a while and forgot the context behind it. Don't know in the video where Jack takes potshots at Contrapoints though. Seems like Jack would rather side with "her" than not.
@@mmouse1886 I never said that he takes potshots at cp(heh), he only references her at 5:38. And yeah it is unfortunately a no-brainer that he sides with her just visit his channels tab it's all right there in clear view. I won't unsubscribe based on this little disagreement, but it still is a damn shame.
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I like how "Life" is just randomly in that list of suggestions
Great video as always, also have you thought about doing a video on Alexander von Humboldt, a famed 1800s scientist who discovered thousands of animal/plant species in South America, kept correspondence with the likes of kings and presidents ( Jefferson and Bolivar particularly), created isotherm maps, reknown abolitionist who got banned from British India for his possible commentary of their treatment of native Indians, and so much more stuff was done in the life of this Romantic scientist.
Man, having a mental breakdown after failing a test and having a religious experience? Yeah, pretty relatable, that.
6:07 ho a screen rant pitch meeting reference i see here
Yes I also saw it
I’m guessing it was from one of the Patreon donors mentioned on 0:41
screen rant pitch meetings are tight!
whoopsy..
Wow wow wow...wow.
This is one of those historical events (kinda)/figures that I really wish a series was made about. I've read about the Taiping Rebellion and Hong Xiquan dozens of times, but it's like...I need to see something to actually believe this craziness happened. (yes I know it did)
There's a bunch, but they're all in Mandarin ofc.
There was an interesting western general, by the name of Fredrick Townsend Ward, who fought against the Taiping rebellion, his story is chock full of interesting feats, & details, (too many to list here), is a famous character in Chinese history, (known as “the Devil Soldier”), but sadly unknown in his native United States...seriously, if you have even a passing vague interest, & the time, his story should not be missed, it is quite incredible, & fascinating....(I’m surprised it’s not a movie)....
Jack this is amazing and most of my biases torwards this type of content are slowly fading but i just want to say it could use a little bit more of your old sense of wit. Again loved the video and have a great weekend to you and the crew
FYI this was the SECOND DEADLIEST war in human history.
This is the best one yet. You might want to take a look at the Duke of Monmouth, his rebellion, and his hilarious ineptitude at speech making.
I just got rejected of college, thanks to this video I got inspire and now I know what to do
You did it again man hahaha. You should have mentioned the facted that his whole village supported him for his exams believing it would be awesome if one of there own was the tax man who came to collect from them and not some stuff aristocrat. Which only add more pressure on the guy. Damn.
Love your work man keep it up. Video Idea how about covering Tecumseh and his brother The Prophet? Great Shawnee Warrior Chief and his Holy vision spouting brother. Sounds right up your alley.
Unfortunately this story doesn't really make sense. Chinese official regulations are that an official cannot serve in his home county, to prevent exactly this sort of corruption. But the pressure to succeed in exams is definitely super real.
@@Ealsante Yeah I don't know it it is. I saw it on an episode of Biographics. ruclips.net/video/BFqwgb1eIms/видео.html
Who knows maybe the local peasantry didn't know about this or more likely they just wanted to have the honor of having a local boy being an offical of the Emperor.
You would think the Europeans would trip over each other to establish a new Christian state in China instead of trying to destroy it
It got in the way of their money. The main trend I've picked up studying history is that greed caused most monarchs to throw out any pretense of godliness (with the exception of Louis XIV, the greed and godliness went hand in hand with that one).
They probably don't view them as a 'Christian state' or a legitimate state for that matter. It is a rebellion after all.
@@Lordofwarz Plus, it made them look bad. He was killing Millions for his interpretation of the Christian Pantheon, it's like the Taliban disavowing ISIS.
In fact many Europeans at that time were kind of happy about it and they thought China was going to become Christian state, but many Europeans turned against it because the guy kept proclaiming he was the brother of Jesus, which was kind of offensive to many European Christians and so it wasn’t regarded as genuine Christianity. They were also regarded as being too cruel by Europeans. I remember reading that George Gordon, who helped the Chinese emperor put an end to the rebellion, was sympathetic towards the rebellion initially since he was a very religious Christian himself, but then he witnessed a great deal of their cruelty and he turned against them. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_George_Gordon
@@jakespacepiratee3740 yeah had he didnt just did a genocide or smthng to the people's town or anything they maybr could have a chance
You left out the part where the Qing literally shot his body out of cannon so he would never have a proper resting place.
I've never had a channel consistently make me laugh in the last 5 seconds of every video. Genius for that watch time metric. Also keeps me on my toes as I watch. Is this next bit a sequitur? or.... DEAD
it was actually not uncommon for people to fail the exam for the first two times
@@yukijames1321 forth times *WE ARM*
FITH TIMES WE HARM
SIXTH TIMES WE FREAKIN FIGHT A BIG A** DYNASTY
Considering that especially during this period you literally would not be able to pass the test unless you made buddy buddy with the grader.
The answers could be interpreted any possible way and unless you bribed the grader (something that was extremely common.) you simply would not pass unless you were a literal academic demigod.
@@kekero540The Song dynasty was less corrupt and cared more about the people. You could question the emperor and not get killed. Intellectuals would not get killed. And this was in 1024. In the Qing 700-800 years later it was very corrupt. 😢
oohh, nice pitch meeting reference! I love this channel so much
The outside world: "You have had one of the single most bloodiest wars in history and you're just gonna consider it a blip in history?"
China: "Yes! That is just how wars are supposed to be!"
I see you everywhere lmao
@@skazka3789 Good
He figured out, since his brother didn't take the inheritance he would.
A few people... disagreed.
It was a mess that time. Hong Xiuquan was a very religious abusive Christian and his rebellion was one of the most affected parts in Chinese history, albeit it was the worst in 19th century Qing. China also endured another series of revolts by the time. Pretty good video.
But hey! He was one of the first Chinese figure to enlist women into the army in China. This was a historic milestone that would set scheme in Chinese future.
Hong has never been a Christian
@@abrandpluckedoutofthefire8043 Never been. But he abused Christianity.
@@huwenkai440 that is not Christianity
A bit understated. Twenty years of war, pitched battles involving 300,000 men, 20 million dead.
And the history of that rebellion causing current Chinese leadership to react ferociously to all religious sects, even those that claim to promote nothing more than mild exercise. See: Falung Gong.
Well, judging by the consequences of QAnon cult, they may be on to something. :p
@@mikicerise6250 Yeah. I would agree.
All seems fun until you find out that his 14-year-old son was captured and tortured to death after begging for his life and claiming he had nothing to do with his father's kingdom.
lol
The title sounds something from History Channel at 2AM
Can we get the life and times of Justinian
Justinian! Justinian! Justinian!
idk if it's a reference but thumbs up for "super easy, barely an inconvenience"
This is literally the second video in five minutes that makes a Ryan George reference (here from Girlfriend Reviews)
dude this is fucking hilarious. the editing is killing me. you definitely have some lightening in a bottle. Gonna binge some of your videos before work lol
So, was Family Guy's "Jesus Hong" joke just a coincidence or genius-level historical research?
absolutle fluke
Absolutely a coincidence, don’t assume Seth McFarlane has any concept of history beyond vibes
Heard about this madlad from the china history Podcast on RUclips, you're pronunciation is pretty good
I love the videos, and chinese Jesus who tries to overthrow the government because he failed his exams is a mood... but i just can't stand the blackboard thing. It just hurts my eyes. I don't mind the less animation but just... I'd rather just plain images
The use of phrases, callbacks, is telling as to what other creators you watch. I approve.
Protestants in america: the end is nigh, and the society we live in is terrible, but i can show you the way, starting with a small charity
Protestants (or whatever christian influence) in east asia: THE END IS NEAR AS FORETOLD BY THE TWENTY PROPHETS OF HEAVENS. JOIN ME AS I, THE THIRTEENTH APOSTLE, THE MAITREYA BUDDHA HIMSELF (source: my dreams last night) SHOWS YOU THE WAY IN THESE SELF DESTRUCTIVE RITUALS AND DOGMAS
I love you bringing back the munster rebellion, it's a good way to bring back old videos
"going through more turbulence than the Challenger" 😀 ... a bit unnecessarily dark that one.
Starting revolutions after repeatedly failing civil service exams is tight
we just witnessed a face reveal fellas
Can confirm am catgirl
6:06 “Oh, proclaiming yourself the brother of Jesus because you couldn’t pass the national exam is tight!”
American civil war 600,000 dead. This war in China 20,000,000 dead. The moral of the story is that good Bible study is important.
not 20000000,only 70000000 died
Kind of downplays the Taiping Rebellion here- it was one of the absolute worst wars in the entirety of human history. At least 20 million people died as a result of warfare, genocidal massacres, epidemic disease and starvation as a result of the conflict. Some estimates put it as high as 70 million, which is significantly worse than WWI.
Probably how Christianity and Islam started.
How Christianity started in the beginning?
Wasn't there a raging fever in between the last failure of exam and his declaration of holiness?
Catching the ScreenRant and Bleach references was super easy, barely an inconvenience.
Hey... i see what u did at 6:05 using ryan george's quote lol nice.
Can you do a video on that Pliney the Elder guy Tasting History is always bringing up? I kinda wanna know what his deal is.
I don't know how exciting his life was, but his death was top notch. He was on a ship watching Vesuvius erupt and decided the best course of action was to sail directly towards it
@@JackRackam Yeah, Tasting History *did* cover that part.
I watched the Biographics on this, I’m so glad u covered it😂