This is a set of old photos of , Luoyang, Henan, in 1909. The photo was taken by American Luolin Zhang Berlin. In 1909, the University of Chicago, the United States sent an Oriental Education Trip to China, and geologist Thomas Zhang Berlin and his son Rollin Zhang Berlin were both members. In this inspection team, 28-year-old Rollin Zhang Bolin. Responsible for photography, Rollin Zhang Bolin is a very serious young man. He not only took photos, but also annotated the photos he took with detailed text, thus leaving us with many precious images from a hundred years ago. The following set of old photos is the ancient capital Luoyang taken by Luolin Zhang Bolin when the Oriental Education Expedition Team came to Luoyang, Henan.
909's Luoyang city wall was a bit decayed, but it still looked majestic and spectacular. The moat under the city wall had dried up, the roads were crisscrossed on the river, and the open spaces became wheat fields. Luoyang is a thousand-year-old capital with a long history and profound cultural heritage. "The glorious ancestors will be forever in the He and Luo River." Luoyang is located in the world, in the hinterland of Jiuzhou, and has a history of capital construction of more than 1,500 years. It has successively established capitals such as Xia, Shang, Western Zhou , Eastern Zhou , Eastern Han , Cao Wei , Western Jin , Northern Wei , Sui, Tang, Houliang , Later Tang , Later Jin 13 dynasties established capitals here, and is the earliest city with the longest capital, the longest time, and the most dynasties in my country.
909, an ancient city of Luoyang, a highway outside the city wall, with farmland on both sides, and there was no pedestrian on the road, which looked very empty.
909, in the old city of Luoyang, there was a Fuwang Mansion in the Ming Dynasty. Lao Fu Wang Zhu Changxun is the third son of Emperor Wanli . At the age of fifteen, he was named Fu Wang and is a vassal of Luoyang. The Fu Palace built an inner palace and an outer palace at that time, and four gate towers were built. The Fu Prince's Mansion was destroyed in the late Ming Dynasty and became the Luoyang Mansion after its restoration in the Qing Dynasty.
909 in a village outside Luoyang, the houses in the village were all brick and tile houses, which looked simple and heavy. This shows that the lives of the people around Luoyang were still good at that time.
909, there was a large mansion next to a T-junction. The yard was towering ancient trees and the courtyard was spacious and spacious, as if it was a temple.
909, in the suburbs of Luoyang, the male owner was standing at the entrance of a cave house. A rope was pulled between the trees in front of the cave, drying clothes, and a few tables and chairs were placed in the open space in front. The caves of the past were not very similar to those of the caves nowadays. They were dug directly on the soil slope, without bricks, which was relatively simple, with poor lighting, and looked black inside.
1909, in the suburbs of Luoyang, there was a quiet burgundy farm, two stone tang quietly docked on the field, and next to the hut seemed like Cangtun.
909 in Luoyang Baima Temple. At that time, , Baima Temple, , looked relatively small in scale, looked gray and a bit decayed. White Horse Temple was first built in the 11th year of Yongping in the Eastern Han Dynasty (68 AD). It is the first official temple built after Buddhism was introduced to China. It is called " Shiyuan " and "ancestral temple".
