Liang Fa

Liang Fa
A posthumous portrait (c. 1865)
Traditional Chinese	梁發
Simplified Chinese	梁发
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Liáng Fā Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Leung4 Faat3
Liang Gongfa
Traditional Chinese	梁恭發
Simplified Chinese	梁恭发
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Liáng Gōngfā
Liang A-fa
Traditional Chinese	梁阿發
Simplified Chinese	梁阿发
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Liáng Āfā
Student of the Good
Traditional Chinese	學善(者)
Simplified Chinese	学善(者)
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xuéshàn(zhě)
Retired Student of the Good
Traditional Chinese	學善居士
Simplified Chinese	学善居士
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Xuéshàn Jūshì

An engraving of George Chinnery's lost Robert Morrison Translating the Bible (c. 1828). Morrison is assisted by Li Shigong (left) and Chen Laoyi (right).

Hong Xiuquan (c. 1860).

Lam Qua's portrait of Peter Parker (c. 1845).

In this Chinese name, the family name is Liang.

Liang Fa (1789–1855), also known by other names, was the second Chinese Protestant convert and the first Chinese Protestant minister and evangelist. He was ordained by Robert Morrison, the first Protestant missionary in the Qing Empire. His tract Good Words to Admonish the Age was influential on Hong Xiuquan, who went on to lead the Taiping Rebellion.