Talk:Hong Xiuquan

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What is up with this article? His birthdate is off by two years, his age at first examination by eight. me goes and corrects. This is one messed up article. Zotlan


 * Traditionally the Chinese did not measure age the same way Europeans did. They counted a child as being one year old at birth, and increased that age by one year every new year, not every anniversary of the child's birth.  Thus a kid born two days before the new year would be two years old on the second day after he was born.  Causes historians all sorts of problems.
 * As for his age at examination I can't say what might have caused that do be messed up. --soto 03:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

Was he medically mentally ill? I have read that beyond the visions, there were some other signs of madness. -- Error


 * Classifying religious experiences as mental illness opens many cans of worms. I say that as an athiest.  --soto 03:53, 16 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Yeah, Hong did have a mental illness known as Religious ferverance. The disorder is characterized by a lack of the ability to reason, violent outbursts, paranoia, intolerance, murder, and soon slavery and death. Notable people who suffered this disorder were Osama Bin Laden, Abu Bakr Al-Bagdadi, Pope Innocent III, The Maccabees, everyone in Salem in 1694, and the guy in Austin Texas a couple months ago.99.108.198.222 (talk) 18:39, 7 February 2015 (UTC)

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So were his alleged Brother and Father.

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article on meritocracy
"An example of this was Chinese student self-declared messiah, Hong Xiuquan, who despite ranking first in a preliminary, nationwide imperial examination, was unable to afford further education. As such, although he did try to study in private, Hong was ultimately noncompetitive in later examinations and unable to become a bureaucrat"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meritocracy 71.17.17.101 (talk) 16:00, 5 June 2022 (UTC)

Renkun
Where is this courtesy name sourced from? Adubh (talk) 03:56, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Early life inaccuracy?
Presently, he is referred to as the third and youngest son, although a source, The Search for Modern China, suggests that he was actually the fourth of five children. However, I am unable to access the sources used to support the current statement. This discrepancy raises uncertainty about his actual birth order.  The Blue  Rider   13:32, 18 November 2023 (UTC)