Xiang Rong

Who was Xiang Rong?

Xiang Rong 向榮 born in Wuxi County Chongqing, was a general promoted from the rank of a foot soldier in the Qing Dynasty. He was involved in early military operations against the Taiping reform movement in Guangxi from 1850. From then he was a Senior Colonel，after one year the military promoted him be the tidu of Guangxi, even though he failed, he made the Taiping believers run away from Guangxi.

Continuing after Guangxi, Xiang Rong never gave up and tracked Taiping across 3 provinces，his Jiang Nan Da Ying army was constantly defeated by the Taiping rebel army outside Nanjing. The Taiping rebel army broke through his various encirclements and occupied Wuhan and Nanjing and gave rise to a huge civil war of the 19th century.