The word bicycle appeared in my country for only more than a hundred years. The first person to call it a bicycle was Zhang Deyi from the late Qing Dynasty. He was a Manchu . Eight times in his life, and the majority of us today go abroad eight times is nothing, but he spent twenty-seven years abroad.
In that year, not many people were able to travel between China and foreign countries a hundred years ago. He wrote a very detailed diary, recording what he saw and heard abroad. So he saw a bicycle in London, England, and he recorded how magical this bicycle was. After returning to China, he wrote a travel record of Europe and the United States, recording the situation of seeing a bicycle at that time. He said, "One round in front and back, one big and one small, two feet in the big and one half feet in the small, one person on top, and one person on the top, and the top wheel rotates and moves his hands." The foot is the foot, and the foot moves and shaking hands. The hand is either shaking the hand or pushing forward and pulling backward.
Bicycle was very popular in Europe at that time, such as Paris, and the bicycle rental industry, which is actually a shared bicycle. But the procedures were complicated at that time. We have just simplified the procedures and lowered the prices now.
The earliest record of Chinese bicycles is more than a hundred years away from us. The first bicycle was more than a hundred years ago. It was probably tributed to the Emperor of Guangxu during the Guangxu period. At that time, Emperor Guangxu was particularly interested in bicycles and rode them several times under the guidance of foreigners. But Empress Dowager Cixi was unhappy and said that you, Emperor Guangxu, should be stable in his throne, how could you enjoy turning the wheel? What kind of convention? Guangxu was more frustrated and stopped playing much later.
In the late period of the Guangxu period, bicycles began to appear in the capital. The clear record is that the first bicycle rider was actually Puyi . When Puyi was sixteen years old, his cousin gave him a bicycle as a gift. At that time, Puyi was scolded by his master Chen Baochen . What should I do if you break something like this dangerous thing to the emperor? The sixteen-year-old Puyi loves to play the game most. He learns it in a few days under the protection of the eunuch and has a very happy time.
While having fun, Puyi found it was unhappy to ride a bicycle in the palace. All doors had thresholds, and they encountered thresholds after walking a few steps, so Puyi ordered that all the thresholds be sawed off. Puyi wrote this passage specifically in my first half of my life. If we visit the Forbidden City today, all the thresholds of Imperial Garden were connected later. Puyi loved bicycles very much back then, and it is said that there were more than 20 bicycles he used.
In the early years of the Republic of China, there were already more than 20 bicycle shops in Shanghai, more than we thought. After the end of World War I, the postal and telecommunications industry developed, and bicycles were the most important means of transportation for postal operators.
Until 1949, Shanghai, where the bicycle manufacturing industry is the most developed, no bicycle factory was able to manufacture key components such as gears, tooth plates, , and key parts still need to be imported from the United States before assembly. At that time, the price of an ordinary bicycle was equivalent to the salary of a lower-level worker for three years, an ordinary worker for two years, and a technician for one year.
Bicycles in Beijing have been increasing in the past 30 years of the Republic of China. One data is the Beijing Road Traffic Management Chronicle. It records that on the eve of the liberation of 1948, the city had 176,970 bicycles, and the data was accurate to the individual digits. It became an important means of transportation for Beijingers to travel. At that time, riding a bicycle in Beijing was already very cool.
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