Shi Dakai

Shi Dakai (1820-25 June1863) (石達開), born in Guigang Guangxi, also known as Wing King (Lord of Five Thousand Years), was a commander in the Taiping Rebellion and a poet. He eventually became disgusted with the continuing in-fighting amongst Hong Xiuquan's followers. He was of half-Hakka and half-Zhuang parentage. Shi, along with the rest of his family, became followers of the teachings of Hong in 1849. [Cite book|last=Spence |first=Jonathan |title=God's Chinese Son |page=114 |isbn=0393315568]

Disillusioned(In 1856, his family all dead on Nanjing struggle killed by Wei Changhui ), Shi led an army of 100,000 out of the Taiping capital in 1857. He fought six years throughout central China against the much larger armies of the Qing Dynasty,and more Taiping forces follow him over 400,000 soldiers along his combat line, but its negative infulence to Taiping Rebellion that broken and shortaged primary area of defense everywhere. by way of example, Chen Yucheng failed and dead on central China.

On the banks of the Dadu, a river in Sichuan, he stopped for three days to celebrate the birth of a son, as he was a prince of the Heavenly Kingdom. The Qing finally caught up with Shi Dakai and although pleading that he quickly be killed and that the 2,000 men who were the faithful remnants of his troops be spared, he was slowly dismembered on Chengdu and all his men were massacred.

He wrote some hero's romantic poems that encouraged more and more Chinese people to overthrow the Qing dynasty, something that eventually led to the creation of the Republic of China in 1912.

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*Cite book|last=Hessler |first=Peter |authorlink=Peter Hessler |title=River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze |page=54, 56 |isbn=0060855029

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