Since the introduction of photography technology from the second half of the 19th century to China's various real scenes of low-level life have been preserved one by one, becoming a valuable resource for people to understand the real history, clear and true history, this issue selects 12 real photos of the late Qing Dynasty to show you the historical truth of more than 100 years.
▲ In the era of underdeveloped transportation, camels are the most common means of transport, camels with good physical strength can transport more goods, but also can walk in the desert area, especially in the northern region of China in the trade and exchanges played an important role. Above is an image of a 19th-century camel caravan passing through the city of Beijing.
▲ All kinds of punishment systems in ancient Chinese society were tools used by feudal rulers to protect their own interests, so why is there a saying that "punishment cannot be a doctor", as long as you do things for the imperial court, ordinary minor crimes can be exempted, and the existence of criminal law is the shackles that cannot be broken off by the people at the bottom. Today's society is changing, everyone is equal, and the Son of Heaven is guilty of the same crime as the common people.
This is a photograph taken in 1899, in which prisoners are pinned to wooden shelves for committing felonies, and their expressions can be seen distorted and painful, and even their heads are fixed and they are about to be executed. In the torture that has run through China's thousands of years of feudal history, beheading is the ultimate attribution of prisoners.
▲ The picture above is a prisoner who is being beheaded at the mouth of the vegetable market, and there must be some things to do before the prisoner is beheaded, one of which is to allow the people to come and watch, and the head of the prisoner is cut off in order to severely punish the criminal, and the second is to kill the chicken and the monkey, without any regard for the dignity of the prisoner. From the eyes of onlookers, it can be seen that people's acquiescence to this kind of criminal law is not unkind.
▲ The picture above is the scene of a prisoner about to be escorted to the execution ground in 1907, according to the text on the map, the criminal was arrested on the eighth day of March in Guangxu 33, and the name of a bandit leader was Zhou Enbo. He was about to be taken to the execution ground to be beheaded, but he was still smiling, not knowing what was going on in his heart at that time.
Soak the pig cage
▲ The scene of soaking the pig cage, we can often see in the film and television drama, the prisoners are tied hands and feet, sandwiched in the wooden cage, this kind of criminal law is mainly aimed at some improper women, with the way of soaking the pig cage to drown them, can be described as cruel to the extreme. Later, this criminal law ideology gradually became popular in the southern region.
▲ The photo is three women who broke the law in the early 19th century, the shackles in the picture were improved by the Qing Dynasty on the basis of the Ming Dynasty, and the shackles at the beginning were up to more than 50 pounds, and sometimes the shackles in the picture weighed 150 pounds.
The Punishment of the Qing Dynasty generally followed the Criminal Law of the Ming Dynasty, but the waist beheading was abolished in severe punishment.
▲ Shackles are the more commonly used torture devices in ancient Chinese punishment to restrict the personal freedom of prisoners similar to today's handcuffs. Sometimes prisoners die before they reach their destination because they cannot bear the shackles during the escort, which seems easy, but in fact it is extremely painful.
▲ The camera is in 1903, a village in Xiamen, Fujian Province, hunting a tiger caused villagers to watch, at that time to kill a tiger is not as simple as now, at that time there was no shotgun, it was difficult to surrender only by tools. "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" does not exist in reality.
▲ The photo shows a Taoist monk who sold medicine and spells in the late Qing Dynasty, and the gourd should be filled with medicine, I don't know if this medicine has the ability to revive the dead? This Taoist monk wore a tattered robe to show that he was practicing asceticism and that his path was profound.
▲ The picture above is the wooden cage punishment, which is not unique to China, but comes from Europe. Alexander the Great is said to have loved this kind of torture the most, and in medieval Europe, whenever a crime was committed, most of them were locked up in wooden cages, and once the prisoners were imprisoned, they would be thirsty, starving, and tortured alive.
The size of the offender's crime directly determines the size of the wooden cage, and the larger the crime, the smaller the area of the wooden cage and the heavier the degree of torture.
▲ The punishment in the picture above is called a kneeling chain, the man's upper body is twisted in a twisted shape to bear the punishment, so that the arm will not be conscious for a long time, see someone supervising the photo, he is still struggling to support the body, but the expression is very desperate, the body has long been unable to bear.