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Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

Late Qing Dynasty photo, this one meal, the kabuki sang and ate at the dinner. There are five kabuki in the picture, the one on the front is playing a musical instrument and singing hard, and the man on the left holds up chopsticks to bring food to his mouth. In the late Qing Dynasty, it was common for officials and eunuchs and rich men to accompany kabuki to dinner, and this photograph provides important information for studying the culture of the late Qing Dynasty.

Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

Prince Su's younger sister and brother-in-law. Yoshiko Kawashima was the daughter of Prince Yoshihito of Su, so they were also Yoshiko Kawashima's aunt and uncle.

Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

Officials of the late Qing Dynasty.

Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

An official at the end of the Qing Dynasty, wearing a noble coat.

Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, officials took pictures in their mansions, and it was definitely the master sitting in the middle, next to his subordinates.

Old photo: Figure 1 Two men looking for five singers to accompany them, Figure 6 Eight Banners Prince Nahan concubines

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the family portrait of the Eight Banners Prince, sitting in the middle row is a male and female host, there are two male and female masters, and the middle two female hostesses comb two heads. In this family of flag people, some of the female relatives in the back row wear large pulled wings. It is worth noting that the Han women standing in the back row are the Han concubines of the two male masters. This shows that at that time, the concubines of the Eight Banners nobles and Nahans were very common.

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