在距今约一个半世纪前，一帮农民从广西金田揭竿而起，自称“太平军”，不足三年时间，队伍就像滚雪球一般迅速壮大，横扫江南各镇，最后拿下清兵虎踞龙盘的重镇南京，改名“天京”后定为自己的国都。起义领袖洪秀全在这里南面称王，与清王朝分庭抗礼。任何一种势力的壮大，都 About a century and a half ago, a group of peasants emerged from the Jintian in Guangxi and claimed to be the “Taiping Army.” In less than three years, the ranks grew rapidly like snowballs and swept across the towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Nanjing, renamed the “Beijing” as its own capital. Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the uprising, was here in the south to stand up against the Qing dynasty. Any kind of power growth, all