Photos from a hundred years ago are now quite popular. They can tell the rise and fall, honor and disgrace, and also tell the joys and sorrows. Although it is not as detailed as historical materials, it is very intuitive. Those frozen shots are very different from Qing palace dramas. The listless Qing soldiers showed their miserable children on the construction site. The daughter of an official family got married. The court official resident Li Hongzhang visited New York. The vicissitudes of the world are all the past, "The breeze helps me to whistle forever. Ask me, the empty curtains are curved and the number of people I see. The scenery is not different from the mountains and rivers, let alone the heroes are not old."
Opium War woke up the dream of "the country of heaven". In front of the Western powers, Qing almost confirmed that guns were inferior to people, and big knife spear could not beat foreign guns and cannons. A large number of Qing soldiers also used platform guns, which are the weapons used by the Qing soldiers in the picture above!
is stupid and heavy, more than two meters long, and the rate of fire is only one to two shots per minute. The accuracy is poor from a hundred meters away, so two people need to be used.
It is a fact that weapons are inferior to humans, and human factors are more important in war. In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing soldiers had already had a disintegration of military discipline and weak fighting will. These people were listless and dumb as a true portrayal.
The woman taking a photo in front of the camera, there is an wall cloth behind her, which should be a posing photo. There were hookahs and clocks on the coffee table, which were the most popular utensils at that time. She lay on the bed with a calm and natural expression. It should not be the first time she took a photo.
, it seems that the age is not very big.
The landlord and her two concubines, he sat upright, with a tiger's back and a bear's waist. The two concubines, one on the left and one on the right, should be his two beloved concubines. Generally speaking, the concubines cannot be on the table.
Feudal society, there are differences between wives and concubines. The status of concubines is insignificant in front of the wife. They also do housework and serve tea and water. Even if you have a son, you will be a concubine. You can't share any family wealth, and you can't even enter the ancestral hall if you die.
At a construction site in Shanghai, a group of children are doing construction work, and they are still at school, and their faces are covered in wind and frost. This should be the earliest photo of child labor, and it is not easy to preserve it.
In the late Qing Dynasty, there were constant disputes in society, and people's livelihood was difficult. The poor children could not go out to make a living early in school. The thin body was destroyed by heavy labor, and the camera made people feel moved.
The barbers on the street are really hot, with haircut utensils on one side and water-burning stoves. After the Qing army entered the pass, the haircut was shaved and changed clothes. The barber came into being and became a landscape on the streets and alleys.
The hairstyles of people in the Qing Dynasty ranged from rat-tail to ponytail to yin-yang head. For more than 200 years, a big braid became a witness to a historical dynasty.
Three men in Guangzhou, each holding a round fan in their hands, are the standard equipment for rich young men and are arty and elegant. The man in the middle is a military officer, a child of the Eight Banners. He is thin and has been stained with smoke. His eyes are protruding, and he looks weak.
In the late Qing Dynasty, bannermen and noble ladies had dinner in their own yard. This meal was not necessarily earned by the poor for half a year. The six people were dressed in gorgeous clothes and talked loudly. The wife in the head was even more charming and talked endlessly. Only the two servants standing were dull and served carefully.
"The rich family smells like wine and meat, and there are frozen bones on the road." For wealthy families, a meal is full of big fish and meat, which really limits the imagination of poverty!
The scene of an official in the capital marrying his daughter. The wedding sedan chair is surrounded by court officials, each wearing official hats, gongzhu , and his body is full of sweat.
As an official in the court, you must be versatile and good at socializing. These officials came to support the store, some were close friends and some flattered, no matter how they earned enough face for the master.
Four people sat on the ground to play poker and enjoy themselves. In their origin, poker is not imported. But the original Leaf Story was changed to the current poker after entering the West, and was as popular as the national mahjong in the late Qing Dynasty.
1896, 74-year-old Li Hongzhang visited New York. He had previously attended the coronation ceremony of the Russian emperor and visited European countries and the United States' last stop.On August 28, he arrived at New York Harbor and was received with high specifications.
At that time, he was alone and surrounded by the crowd. His mood was complicated. Previously, the Beiyang Fleet was destroyed and he was also dismissed from his post and investigated. This time, in the eyes of the great powers, this time, it was "the Eastern spike". But when he traveled around the powerful countries of Europe and the United States, he realized how big the gap between the Qing Dynasty and it was.
In Europe, he saw the advanced foreigners' warship , and in New York, he saw more than 20-story tall buildings, and his heart was undoubtedly collapsed. The Qing Dynasty he had struggled to maintain was already at its end of the road, and he, a papermaker, could not last for a few years!
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