A group of historical photos we want to see today is a photo taken in Tianjin in 1901, although the city of Tianjin is still only more than 600 years of city history, but it has a pivotal historical position in the history of the country, especially in modern history, tianjin is a deep impression on people.
The current city of Tianjin was still a vast ocean more than 4,000 years ago, because the water of the Yellow River poured into the sea from here, and the soil of Shanghai was brought here to form a pile, and later after the Yellow River was diverted, a piece of land was formed here.
In the Sui Dynasty, because of the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, the confluence of the north-south canal plus the sea was formed in the earliest birthplace of Tianjin, which was also known as the Sanhui Haikou.
It is also because of the construction of the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, in the Ming Dynasty, the Yan King Zhu Di launched the Battle of Jingnan, that is, from the Sanhui Haikou to raise troops through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to the south, and later after Zhu Di became emperor, he began to build a city and set up a guard in the southwest of the Sanhui Haikou, called Tianjin Wei, which originally meant the place where the Son of Heaven passed, so it was called Tianjin Wei, which is the historical origin of Tianjin.
This photo was taken on the streets of Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty, and it can be seen that although Tianjin was already very developed at that time, the pavement here was still dirt roads.
Walking in the middle of the road is a group of people from the government, judging from the specifications of this palanquin, the smallest official sitting on the palanquin is also an official of more than three pins, and in the Qing Dynasty there was a clear rule that only the emperor could use the palanquin carried by 16 people.
The empress and the empress dowager can use 8 or 16 people to carry the palanquin, the royal prince and the emperor's concubine can also use the palanquin of 8 people, in order to reflect the noble status of the royal family, in the capital except for the above specific people, all other people are not allowed to use more than 4 people palanquin.
However, this provision was limited to the capital, and after leaving the capital, in order to show the majesty of the imperial court, officials with more than three pins could travel in eight large sedans, and the roof of the palanquins of officials above three pins was also silver.
In addition to the eight-wheeled caravan, this official had several soldiers in front of him, and this official must have been of a very high status, and he was also a civilian official.
The building in this photo is the Governor's Mansion, the river in front of it is the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, and the status of the Governor of Zhili in the Qing Dynasty is very high, and the Governor of Tianjin is one of the nine most senior feudal officials in the Qing Dynasty.
This photo is of a soldier with a rifle at the gate of the governor of the late Qing Dynasty, who is still in the old infantry of the Qing army, but they already have muskets.
You can see another person behind him who is secretly watching the camera, and the pole he is holding is a street lamp pole, which was installed in many big cities in the Qing Dynasty at that time.
The camera turns to the right of the gate, where there is also a soldier standing guard, and a prisoner who is shackled, and the prisoner does not have a yin and yang head, which is a strange thing in the Qing Dynasty, unless he is a revolutionary.
The sports meeting held on the playground of Tianjin Zhen Middle School shows that the Qing Dynasty at that time had also begun to attach importance to sports, but because of their hairstyles, some athletes seemed to have headscarves tied to their heads.
The scene of Tianjin Railway Station, when Li Hongzhang and Yuan Shikai were the main base for the development of foreign affairs and the development of Beiyang forces, was in Tianjin, so it became a veritable city of Chinese and Western fusion.
In the square of this railway station, there are Qing Dynasty people with long pigtails, as well as foreigners in suits and leather shoes, and the soldiers standing guard are also a new army trained by the Qing Dynasty, in addition to several foreigner soldiers wearing white helmets in the distance.
This is Victoria Road in the British Concession, which is also a disgrace to the Qing Dynasty.
This is a picture of the French Concession in Tianjin, and the English name of the building in the back is called the Northern Hotel, which can be seen that it was very prosperous here at that time, and the hotel entrance was crowded with rickshaws.
It was a scene in the concession, where the influx of Westerners brought their carriages into China.
This is a scene filmed outside the city of Tianjin, two men are standing in a mass burial hill looking up at the sky, those protruding mounds are all graves, this should be a feng shui treasure land, otherwise there would not be so many graves buried here.