This photograph was taken in 1870 in the Fujian region, and the foreigner sitting on a palanquin was named John Gurney Frye, and the old bungalow behind them and the garden at their feet were funded by John Gurney Fry.
The man with the hoe is the gardener who runs the manor, and he does the work of weeding and pruning the branches of the manor.
The other two men were sedans who specialized in the travel of foreigners, and these people were lucky enough to find such a decent job in that era.
This photograph was taken in 1869 in a rural area of Fujian Province, where a group of local women were sorting tea leaves.
During the Qing Dynasty, the tea in Fujian was very famous, especially in the eyes of foreigners, and two women from Fujian appeared at the Second World Expo held in Paris, France in 1867.
The two women introduced the tea culture of the East to the people of the world, which also attracted the world's attention to the Chinese tea culture.
From the photos, you can see that these women have also improved their living conditions because of the popularity of tea, although they are not very rich and expensive, but each of them has a set of clean and beautiful clothes, and in that era, they could have this condition, and they were already very good family conditions.
This photograph was taken in 1865 in the Fujian region, where an old man is pushing forward with his hands on a car, and there are two beautiful women sitting on the car he is pushing.
In the background, it can be seen that this is on a country road, and there is a forest behind it, and the two women sitting in the car are not wrapped in small feet, they should be two ethnic girls.
At that time, because of the inconvenience of transportation and road traffic, in addition to the use of horse-drawn carriages and palanquins, it was this kind of unicycle, and this kind of unicycle was very suitable for traveling on remote paths.
This photograph was taken in 1907 in front of Shanghai's Longhua Pagoda, and the two men sitting on the chicken bus were photographers from the United States.
The male American was still holding a bouquet of peach blossoms in full bloom in the south, and the flowering time of peach blossoms in the south is usually around April every year, so this photo should also be taken in April, when the spring flowers are in full bloom.
The two foreigners were supposed to be in Shanghai for the first time, and they were still very new to everything in Shanghai, so they chartered a chicken bus and pushed them around Shanghai.
The photograph was taken in 1907 at a hospital in Yongchun, Fujian Province, where the man sitting on a chair was a worker.
The man's name was Tong Pei, the woman next to him was his wife, and the two people standing were their sons and daughters, they should be local ethnic minorities, because looking at their dress, their families were relatively well-off.
If it is a Han family, with such good family conditions, the woman should be required to wrap her feet, and then their son looks more energetic, but he is actually an epileptic patient.
This photograph was taken on the streets of Fujian in 1900, where an umbrella repairer was working on the streets.
The umbrella seems ordinary, but it is also the crystallization of the wisdom of our ancient people, and the wife of the famous master craftsman Lu Ban in the Spring and Autumn Period saw her husband often working in the rain.
So she invented an umbrella that could shield her husband from the rain when it rained, and because this tool was very practical, it was quickly promoted in China.
In 1747, after an Englishman brought a Chinese oil-paper umbrella back to Britain, the people of Europe learned to use the umbrella as a tool.
Because in ancient times, there was no such means of transportation as a car, that is, there were a few people who owned it, so at that time, the umbrella repair master was a very popular profession.
This photograph was taken in Shanghai, the photo was taken in 1932, the photographs of the soldiers are volunteer armored companies and British soldiers, in fact, they are all British, but some are temporarily formed volunteers.
For the origin of these people, it must be said that those British troops were after the end of the Sino-British Opium War, the Qing government signed the Treaty of Nanjing with the British in 1842, and the British established the British Concession in Shanghai and other places from that time, and those British troops were british soldiers stationed in the British Concession.
British volunteer armored vehicles appeared after the outbreak of the 128 Incident between China and Japan, and on the night of January 28, 1932, the Japanese army launched an attack on the 19th Route Army of the Chinese army stationed in Shanghai.
At that time, the Sino-Japanese fighting in Shanghai was very fierce, and the British authorities recruited a large number of volunteers to form an army in order to prevent the war from burning into the concession.
Although the British soldiers were well-equipped, they did not intervene in the war between China and Japan, they just watched the fire from the other side.