In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In 1909, the American geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin came to Beijing to take this set of old photographs.
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Xizhimen Railway Station
In December 1905, the Qing government considered that Empress Dowager Cixi and others could easily travel from the Summer Palace along the Gaoliang River waterway to the railway station, westward to Zhangjiakou, or east to Fengtai, along the Beijing-Fengfeng Railway to Tianjin and Fengtian, so they decided to choose Xizhimen Station by the Gaoliang Bridge.
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
peddler
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
belfry
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Manchu woman
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
funeral
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Drum Tower, the road looks wide and flat, still very clean, but the dust is a little big, I don't know if the garbage cans standing on both sides are not.
In 1900, when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded Beijing, the cultural relics on the Drum Tower were destroyed, and the Drum Tower building was spared.
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
carriage
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
woman
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Temple of Heaven
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Forbidden city
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
wedding
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Prepare for the emperor's arrival
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Look out from the Drum Tower
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Street view
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Coal Mountain
Coal Mountain was originally just a small hill, and it is said that coal was stacked here when the Ming Dynasty built the Forbidden City, so it is called Coal Mountain. The last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, hanged himself on this mountain and martyred the country, and in the twelfth year of Qing Shunzhi (1655), he changed his name to Jingshan.
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Outside the Forbidden City
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Tribute Temple
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
The Great Wall near qinglong bridge
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
Mountains near the South Exit
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
The Great Wall near the South Exit
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
The Moat of the Forbidden City
The Moat of the Forbidden City was built on the basis of the Moat of the Yuan Dynasty when Ming Yongle built the city of Beijing in the eighteenth year (1420). The moat was originally intended to prevent enemy invasion, but in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, it played almost no role in front of the foreign artillery fire.
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In Beijing, on the eve of the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1909, the roads were dusty and the moat outside the Forbidden City was covered with water and grass
