Today, Xiaobian recommends 10 old photos to you to reproduce some historical details in the late Qing Dynasty. People and things more than 100 years ago are gone like smoke, but fortunately, the camera freezes one moment after another, giving us the opportunity to look at the past life today.
The young woman's hairstyle is a "full of stars" with short bangs, the clothes are slim pants, and the makeup style is undoubtedly at the forefront of late Qing fashion. Her face was plump and round, and her feet were wrapped into a "three-inch golden lotus", which was completely in line with the aesthetics of the time, and there should be many people who entrusted matchmakers to propose to her.
At that time, girls could be engaged at the age of thirteen or fourteen under the arrangement of their parents, and then they would be married in a year or two. There are four main requirements for the woman in-laws: one is gentle personality, the second is reserved and introverted, the third is diligent hands and feet, and the fourth is good health (people with good conditions will also make requirements for appearance). The bride may not be satisfied with the marriage, with a sad and melancholy look on her face.
The donkey is short and docile, suitable for women from civilian families. People with better economic conditions will travel by horse-drawn carriage or palanquin.
Tan Si's father was Tan Jixun, the governor of Hubei Province, but he did not have the habit of being a clumsy disciple, but thought of the world's life, felt the country's poverty and weakness, proposed a new policy, determined to change the law, and in 1898 deeply participated in the "Penghu Restoration" movement. When the restoration was facing failure, he acted recklessly, and went to see Yuan Shikai alone, asking him to seize the military power of Rong Lu, the governor of Zhili, and lead his troops into Beijing to hunt down Empress Dowager Cixi. Yuan Shi was not a member of the Restoration camp, and reported The original of Tan Sitong's plan to the imperial court, and Empress Dowager Cixi was furious and immediately ordered the Guangxu Emperor to be imprisoned and hunted down and killed the Restoration faction. On September 28 of that year, Tan Si and the other "six gentlemen" were beheaded.
This is a photograph taken by a French photographer to show Chinese eating with chopsticks. Are the couples in the photo the earliest batch of "eating broadcasts"?
The "Zhiyuan" was an armored protective cruiser ordered from Armstrong Shipyard by the Beiyang Marine Division in the late Qing Dynasty, and was delivered at the end of 1887. On September 17, 1894, in the Sino-Japanese Naval Battle, when the ammunition was exhausted, Deng Shichang commanded the "Zhiyuan" ship to rush to the enemy warship, trying to die with the enemy, unfortunately hit by a torpedo, and all the officers and men of the ship were martyred except for 7 people who were rescued. In 2015, the wreckage of the Zhiyuan ship was salvaged from the Waters of the Yellow Sea.
At the age of 68, Empress Dowager Cixi was old and fading, and she no longer had the youthful beauty of the Xianfeng years. In the history of the wild and the film and television dramas, she mostly appears with the image of paying attention to health and well-maintained, so what is the real situation? From this photo, she has a severe thyroid disease that has reached the point where the collar cannot hide the enlarged thyroid gland. Looking at her face again, her muscles are loose, her expression is stiff, combined with the Medical Records of the Qing Palace, she suffers from muscle spasm, and often has symptoms of "eyelid twitching, muscles and veins are not happy" and "buccal beating".
This photograph was taken in 1901 in The Gate of Inspector Fu of Shandong Province. During his tenure, he suppressed the Boxers with an iron fist, ensuring that Shandong was spared the scourge of war in 1900. Soon after, he succeeded Li Hongzhang as the governor directly under him. During his tenure as governor, Yuan believed that the most urgent thing was to train troops, so he raised funds to train the Beiyang New Army, which became an important chip for him to fight for power and profit later.
This palanquin belongs to the level of Jiangnan's "Ten Thousand Workers' Palanquin", that is, it took more than 10,000 man-hours to make it, which is extremely gorgeous. The families of those who can use the "Ten Thousand Workers' Car" to greet their relatives are either rich or expensive, and they are rich and expensive.
In the early days of coastal cities, local people often had a hostile attitude towards foreigners, which could easily lead to conflicts and lead to diplomatic incidents. In order to avoid this situation, foreigners generally operate in the leased land, and the two worlds are separated. Once the scope of foreigners' activities expanded, the government might send soldiers to provide protection.