Today's industrialization makes us yearn for a more original environment, so many people love ancient China more, believing that those buildings buried in history are magnificent and present natural and spectacular scenery.
People's imagination always polishes the truth to a certain extent. 1898's real capital did not have neither industrial pollution nor maintained the most beautiful natural scenery as people thought.
It is true that there is less artificial pollution, but there is no ideal beauty of natural ecology. The streets are filled with loess air and dust is flying. This can still be called a natural scene, but it is still mixed with excrement from people or animals.
The royal gardens that are now cherished and protected by people are even more dilapidated , and there is no way to see the status of the remains.
The real capital of the late Qing Dynasty
is talked about. The Qing Dynasty period provides a large number of live photos to the present world. This is also a reality that has never been shown in film and television. It leaves behind the beautification as the good side of history to remove dirty, unbearable and disorder.
The environment in the late Qing Dynasty was as dirty as people expected. Before we restored the original natural scenery to the first beauty, there was actually a period of sludge.
"Old Beijing Trivial Notes" describes the streets in the late Qing Dynasty. Not only does "there are corridors in the middle of its thoroughfare" , but "rain and slippery", which shows all dangers and evil in the environment. The most common ones in the streets are loess and excrement.
Before there is no cement floor, the streets are covered with loess, and sometimes they are covered with garbage dumped by the people.
You should know that the late dynasties usually have no time to take care of the people at the bottom who are struggling in life. Before the storm is over, everyone is in danger and even their lives cannot be guaranteed.
Moreover, in a society where no one advocates cleanliness, there is no excessive sense of cleaning. This is a common phenomenon in the general environment, and people at that time did not think it was so unbearable.
One of the most important reasons should be that it is impossible to create a clean social environment. The limitations of the conditions themselves are in the late Qing Dynasty, and top-down rectification cannot be achieved.
Whether it is food scarcity or the relatively tight economy of the country, it was a very deadly situation in that era. could not consider the environmental problems that could be temporarily suspended before more important difficulties, so there were those dirty and messy present in the old photos.
The capital under the Qing Dynasty was far more down and outdated than in the present world. The houses were short and not backward. If it were just like this, at least it could be called nostalgic, but in fact it was full of the stench that made people feel in the toilet for a while.
This unpleasant smell actually came from the streets and alleys of the capital. The source was the smell of feces emitted by the accumulation of excrement all over the ground. It is not just that this phenomenon exists in some areas, but that is the case in most places.
Dust and excrement are spreading
Whenever someone drives a carriage, the dust on the ground will be stepped on and fly quickly, and the food on the stall will basically be covered with a thick layer of loess . If it were in today's society, it would not be eaten by people.
But in that period, people did not have this awareness. Even the excrement that was trampled on the ground was not a rare thing. People directly threw the garbage in the house on the street anywhere, and no one went to clean it.
is still the case in the most prosperous capitals, and few people have noticed personal hygiene in some remote areas. The food in the mouth is basically not as pure as it is today, and it is even stained with dust and then eaten directly after wiping it over a few times.
The exaggerated statement is even more bluntly stated that half of what people ate at that time was food, and the other half was stains mixed with dust. However, people who have experienced it from that era know that there are no such favorable conditions as modern times to care about the cleanliness.
Animal feces are usually excreted directly to the streets, and at that time there were people who specialized in picking up feces to sell them. Logically speaking, this should leave a cleaner path, but in fact, excrement is still common.
Because it is visible everywhere, it is impossible to completely pick up . At a glance, the excrement all over the ground was removed, and the dust that blocked the view in front of you made everything look misty.
The most realistic urban life is full of dusty atmosphere. There is no flatness after the cement pavement on the ground, but a flat depression. Whenever it rains, many water puddles will appear soon, accompanied by the turbid loess color.
If it is sunny, it will be covered with loess, and without sunny or rain, it will bring about a gray sky. This is the most real original ecology of the Qing Dynasty, and those buildings left over from history are gradually piled up with fallen leaves and soil.
Barre Landscape
The famous inner city corner tower Wei Ran stood on the border. He had defended against the enemy's attempt to enter the country several times and protected people's dream of stability. Although it has been many years, it is still magnificent.
But all the photos taken in the late Qing Dynasty told me that it was unwilling, overgrown and deserted. In the same situation, there are also those royal gardens, such as the desertedness of Yuquan Mountain, and the one of the royal gardens is here.
Once upon a time it also had a prosperous period, but since the invasion and even destruction of in 1860, all that remains is devastated. When the invader completely destroys the exquisite buildings, no one wants to appreciate the incomplete buildings.
It is natural that no one cares about it over time, and the degree of destruction is so great that it is difficult to repair it as before. It was not easy to completely repair it in that era of insufficient technology, even now.
Besides, in a situation where life cannot be guaranteed, no one can have the leisure to visit the magnificent buildings after history. Perhaps only the rich people who are good at survival can do it, but they obviously do not spend time specifically touching the remaining architectural patterns.
So that the era of simple and natural beauty that people imagined would not exist alone. The late Qing Dynasty did not only have simple scenery and people, but more were workers busy with livelihoods and survival. They lived in an era full of dust.
As for the desolation of the royal gardens, on the one hand, the prosperity of the royal family is no longer there. There were many crises at home and abroad in the late Qing Dynasty, and I was afraid that I would be caught off guard by the enemy when I was unprepared, and more of the fear of being omnipresent in society like dust.
The degree of destruction of the environment is usually closely related to the prosperity of that era. At first glance, it is full of smoke and chaos, just like the hearts of people filled with rotten breath.
1898 was a deserted and lonely city. There were countless thin faces covered with loess, and the food was turbid and people's hearts were not pure enough.
Happy faces disappeared in the dilapidated royal gardens, just like the era that survived after being invaded by the outside world, completely losing the beauty and abundance of historical precipitation. No matter how you interpret the scene of existence, it has disappeared in the long river of history.
