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Meaning of TAIPING

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Tai"ping"\, or Taeping \Tae"ping"\, a. [Chin. t'aip'ing
great peace.] (Chinese Hist.)
Pertaining to or designating a dynasty with which one
Hung-Siu-Chuen, a half-religious, half-political enthusiast,
attempted to supplant the Manchu dynasty by the
{Taiping rebellion}, incited by him in 1850 and suppressed by
   General Gordon about 1864.
 
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