Career
He served under Hong Xiuquan"s Taiping Administration and led Taiping forces to many military victories. He was executed by Hong Xiuquan in 1856 because he had killed Yang Xiuqing during the Tianjing Incident. Chen Yucheng and Li Xiucheng were trained and taught by Qin.
Jiangnan Rigang was executed, along with Chen Chengrong and Wei Changhui, during the Tianjing Incident, a major internal conflict within the Taiping Rebellion.
The total number of casualties from this amounted to more than 27,000 people. Wei Changhui, along with Chengrong and Rigang, were reprimanded by Shi Dakai when they returned to Tianjing on 26 September.
Dakai called for a rebellion against Changhui, and he was executed on 2 November, along with Rigang and Chengrong.