The word Zhuangyuan, I believe that everyone is not unfamiliar, in ancient China, the first place in the examination is called "Zhuangyuan", many people will think that the historical Zhuangyuan are all male, called "Zhuangyuanlang", because the ancient Chinese feudal society has always been male and female inferior, the imperial examination only men can participate, however, in China's Qing Dynasty, there was a female Champion, this person is talented and talented, reform measures, significant significance, far-reaching impact.
This person is Fu Shanxiang, a native of Nanjing, born in Shuxiangmendi, from an early age full of poetry, talented, unfortunately the family fell in the middle, married to others at a young age, but because of her husband's illness and death, social cruelty, talent is useless, forced to displace, in 1851, the Tianping Army launched an uprising, a hundred responses, the Taiping Army all the way to the bamboo, in just 2 years to capture Nanjing, and renamed Tianjing, as its capital, at this time Fu Shanxiang was displaced, there was no way to go, he defected to the Tianping Army, changed her fate, Achieved a lifetime of short glory.
At the end of 1853, the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom reformed the imperial examination, added the "female section" to break the old system of the feudal imperial examination, advocating equality between men and women, which made Fu Shanxiang, who did not meet the talent, see hope, after she applied for the examination, she showed outstanding talent in the examination room, the article was achieved in an instant, and the essence was everywhere, the words were pearls, so that the officials who read the papers were all admired, and won unanimous praise, and finally after selection, they were selected by Yang Xiuqing, the eastern king, and were impressed by the wonderful pen of their articles, and personally named her a female champion. Since then, her career has begun, and her talents have begun to be quantified step by step, and she has handled affairs with ease, and has gradually been recognized and loved by many senior leaders of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom.
During his official period, Fu Shanxiang was appointed by the Heavenly King as a minister, assisted the Eastern King in handling various political affairs, helped the Eastern King formulate a series of new policy policies, especially the emancipation of women, advocated the avant-garde ideology of equality between men and women, set an example for future generations, and also advocated the abolition of some bad habits in feudal society, coupled with his foresight, made a major contribution to the stability and development of the early stage of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, so it was once called "Wu you Hong Xuanjiao, Wen you Fu Shanxiang", which shows Fu Shanxiang's status in the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom at that time, but the good times were not long. The ambitions of Yang Xiuqing, the Eastern King, swelled, and the internal contradictions among the leaders of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom intensified, fighting each other, and eventually the Eastern King was killed, and Fu Shanxiang's whereabouts became a mystery.
Later generations have four endings, one is that when the Oriental Province was purged, it was killed in the rebel army and thrown into the river, and a generation of talented women has since fallen. Second, Fu Shanxiang escaped during the purge of the Eastern Palace, and later joined forces with the Yi King and other forces to attack the Northern Palace to avenge Yang Xiuqing. Third, he was captured by Wei Changhui and imprisoned, later rescued by Hong Xuanjiao, and then married to the young Mu king Tan Shaoguang, but because Tan was killed by his subordinates, he finally died of depression. Fourth, Fu Shanxiang and He Zhenchuan, a civilian official in the Eastern King's Mansion, admired each other, and when the Eastern Wangfu was purged, the two of them escaped, and after the failure of the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom, the two of them have since become anonymous and live in a small alley in Shanghai, no one knows them, they do not know who they are, so how the only female leader in history ended up was left to posterity to comment.