在1851年至1864年太平天国农民政权14年的军事斗争中,其由小到大、由弱到强而又由盛转衰,直至最后失败,有着深刻的内在原因。对于太平天国农民政权政治成败和军事战略的得失问题,史界已作了大量探讨,然而对于太平天国农民战争之所以兴衰成败的经济原因,特别是粮食给养这一直接物资原因,往往被人们所忽略并且很少见有专文论及。从人力资源的角度来看,太平天国作为一支农民武装,其成员主要来自广大的农民、手工业者和其他劳动人民,就此可以认定太平天国军事斗争不乏其人力上的来源,而缺乏的是物质支援, During the fourteen years of military struggle of the Taiping Heavenly King’s peasantry power from 1851 to 1864, it was a deep intrinsic cause that its cause was from small to large, from weak to strong, from succumb to succumb to failure. The history has made a great deal of discussion about the success or failure of the political success or failure of the peasant regime in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. However, the economic reasons for the rise and fall of the peasant war in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, especially the direct cause of food supply, are often ignored Rarely talk about the article. From a human resource point of view, the Taiping Heavenly King, armed as a peasant, whose members are mainly peasants, handicraftsmen and other working people, can conclude that there is no shortage of manpower sources in the military struggle in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdoms and lack material support,