太平天国革命运动是中国近代史上三次革命高潮中的第一次革命高潮。今年是太平天国定都南京一百三十周年。太平天国这次震撼全球的反封建、反侵略的农民革命运动,革命火焰遍及十八省,持续斗争十八年,其规模之大,影响之深是中国历史上任何一次农民战争所无法比拟的。对于太平天国革命爆发的原因,马克思在《中国革命和欧洲革命》一书中曾有精辟的论述。他说:“中国的连绵不断的起义已延续了十年之久,现在已汇成一个强大的革命,不管引起这些起义的社会原因是什么,也不管这些原因是通过宗教的、王朝的还是民族的形式表现出来,推动了这次大爆炸的毫无疑问是英国的大炮强迫中国输入名叫鸦片的麻醉剂。”第一次鸦片战争的结局,以清廷战败被迫签订 The Taiping Heavenly Revolutionary Movement is the first revolutionary upsurge in the three revolutionary climaxes of modern history in China. This year marks the 130th anniversary of the Taiping Heavenly Capital in Nanjing. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which shook the world’s anti-feudal and anti-invader peasant revolutionary movements, has a revolutionary flame spread over 18 provinces and sustained 18 years of struggle. Its scale and depth are unmatched by any peasant war in Chinese history. For the reasons for the outbreak of the Taiping Revolution, Marx made a brilliant exposition in his book “The Chinese Revolution and the European Revolution.” He said: “China’s continuous uprising has lasted for 10 years and now it has merged into a powerful revolution, no matter what the social causes of these uprisings or whether these are caused by religion, dynasty or ethnic group , No doubt that the big bang that propelled the big bang was the British cannons forcing China to import an opiate called opium. ”The first Opium War ended in a defeat by the Qing government and was forced to sign