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DECEMBER 1850. A WAR WOULD BEGIN. A WAR THAT WOULD GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT BLOOD WARS EVER. WITH AN ESTIMATED TOTAL LOSS OVER 30 MILLION PEOPLE, IT STANDS AS THE SECOND DEADLIEST WAR IN HUMAN HISTORY, BEATEN ONLY BY THE SECOND WORLD WAR. AND YET, SO FEW KNOW OF IT. I AM OF COURSE TALKING ABUOT THE TAIPING REBELLION. A WAR WAGED AGAINST THE QING DYSTANY IN CHINA. LEAD BY HONG XIUQUAN, A GROUP OF NATIONALISTIC RELGIOUS ZEALOLT ROSE UP TO OVER THROW THE CRUMBLING GOVERNMENT IN THE NAME OF GOD. THE WAR LASTED FOR 14 YEARS, WITH TENS OF MILLIONS LOSING THEIR LIVES AND THE PERECPTION OF CHRISTIANITY IN CHINA WAS FOREVER CHANGED. WITHIN CHINA ITSELF, THERE IS A GREAT DEAL OF IMPORTANCE PLACED ON ANIMALS, LARGELY BASED ON CULTURAL AND RELGIOUS SIGNIFICANCE. ONE SUCH ANIMAL IS THE PANDA, A SPECIES OF BEAR NATIVE TO THE REGION. SUCH A STRANGE THING, WHY WOULD THE PANDA HOLD SUCH SIGNIFICANCE IN CHINESE CULTURE WHEN THE BLUE BEAR, THE OBJECTIVELY SUPERIOR BEAR EXISTS? WELL YOU SEE, HONG XIUQUAN'S REBELION HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH CHRISTIANITY. IN FACT, THE BELIEF THAT HONG WAS CONVINCED HE WAS THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST IS A LIE. THE TRUTH IS, WHILE DOING SOME SOUL SEARCHING AFTER HIS SECOND FAILURE TAKING THE IMPERIAL EXAM, HE A VISION, A VISION OF SOMETHING GREATER THAN ANY MAN, WOMAN OR CHILD. A VISION OF A BEAR, BUT NOT ANY OLD BEAR THE BEAR. THE BLUE BEAR, FUJIKURA URUKA. SEEING HER IN ALL HER DIVINE PERFECTION, HEARING HER INTOXICATING SONG AND PEERING INTO HER MESMERISING EYES, HE KNEW THAT THE WORLD MUST BOW TO HER GREATNESS. AND SO, WITH THAT, HE BEGUN AMASSING SUPPORTERS AND TROOPS, READY TO TAKE CHINA AND BUILD A NEW WORLD WHERE SHE MAY LIVE FREELY. SADLY, THE FAILURES OF THIS WAR HAD A CATOSTOPHIC TOLL ON THE IMAGE OF THE BLUE BEAR IN CHINESE CULTURE, AND SO, FEARING THAT OTHER MAY LEARN THE TRUTH OF THE BLUE BEAR AND START ANOTHER WAR, THEY SCRUBED ANY EVIDENCE OF URUKA FROM THEIR HISTORY REPLACING HER WITH THE FEABLE PANDA IN THE HOPES THAT IT WOULD KEEP THE PEACE...
I FUCKING LOVE URUKA!