At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a handmade person walked the streets and alleys. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi was in power three times, and the situation was worse and worse each time, she only sat in the Forbidden City and watched the sky, without knowing the real situation thousands of miles away.
The three villagers also seem to be financially strapped. The late Qing Dynasty was no longer comparable to the Kangqian period. Hungry people, Cixi certainly did not know in the Forbidden City. However, when Cixi fled in 1900, she dressed up as a village girl, walked the streets and alleys, ate and slept in the wind, waded through the mountains and waters, and found that the people under her rule were so poor.
These were three drivers of the car, and the cotton clothes they were wearing were already neat at that time.
This is a local militia, since the balance of heaven, the imperial court discovered the role of the militia, let the local capacity to train the regiment. Looking at these group members, skinny and boney, just like the defeated look, it is obvious that the reason why they usually do not have enough to eat.
This is a group of children grabbing a snack thrown by a missionary, and the almsgiving is very meaningful. The ancients did not eat the food that came from the clouds, but the hungry children could not think so much.
These are two old masters, also hungry enough to choke, a look at this weathered look, is often not good to eat. It is recorded that when Cixi was in, local officials had to spend a few thousand taels of silver to open up various gates once they entered the capital, and if they spent more money in the Forbidden City, the eunuchs also had to do so. They return to the place, naturally scrape the people, return to the original.
It was a woman and her two children, and look at this girl: no matter how poor she was, she had to save the cloth to make a few top shrouds. Even if you don't have clothes, you have to have a foot wrap.
The people on the street, look at this anxious look. All Cixi heard in the Forbidden City was whitewashed news. Even if Kang Yongshi was relatively clear-cut, the magistrates often concealed their feelings.
A peasant woman, no matter how poor she is, has to wrap her feet, and doing farm work must be affected, at that time, many people like her, the custom of foot binding was popular in the late Qing Dynasty, and even the poorest had to save cloth to make a few top shrouds.