Photographic technology in the late Qing Dynasty has been passed down to China, so there are many photos of the late Qing Dynasty that have survived, in these old photos we can know the real Qing Dynasty, in fact, and the TV series is still very different, the three noble ladies in this photo are dressed in Han costumes, but wearing Manchu flower pot bottom shoes, so for a while it is impossible to distinguish whether they are Han or flag people.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the south and the north were still relatively rich, and the picture shows the three-dimensional peasants in Guangzhou working in the fields, but although they are in the rich areas, life is still relatively difficult, and a year of hard work can only maintain food and clothing, coupled with the fact that the taxes of the Qing Dynasty are very heavy, so the people are not happy, and once a famine occurs, they dare not imagine.
During the Qing Dynasty, the bad habit of women's feet was prevalent, but the two women in the picture did not tie their feet, because they were southerners, and almost every family in the north had to tie their feet, otherwise they might not be able to marry, let alone work in the field, at that time, women's social status was relatively low, so they had to live dependent on men.
This photo is one of the most prosperous streets in Guangzhou, it can be seen that the street is relatively narrow, the merchants and guests are not particularly many, the pedestrians on the street are also dressed in shabby clothes, and the situation in other places at that time will only be worse than this, the Kangqian prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty is actually a scam, everyone should not be deceived by the whitewash taiping of the Qing Palace drama.