More than a hundred years ago, photographic technology has long been introduced to China, so the real social situation in the late Qing Dynasty has been recorded and preserved, because of the frequent wars and various natural and man-made disasters, many children have lost their families at a very young age, they are homeless, they can only beg along the street, the boys in the picture are still so young shoulders to shoulder the responsibility and burden of taking care of their younger brothers, their eyes are extremely painful.
During the Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, there was a drought, resulting in no harvest of grain in the north, and the refugees could only leave their hometowns to find a glimmer of life, but they did not think that even if they traveled thousands of miles, they still could not find food, even in areas with bumper harvests, it was difficult for the people to maintain food and clothing, because the Qing Dynasty had a lot of heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, and the people could not afford it at all, and the land-cutting indemnity treaties signed by the rulers ultimately made the people at the bottom pay.
Due to the backward productivity in ancient times, the technology is not developed, so people can only put unexplained things on the gods, there are many such shrines in the fields of the southern region, even if it is the land temple, there will be villagers occasionally come to worship the land father-in-law, the man in the photo is actually waiting for the offering, he has not eaten for a long time, the heart especially hopes that someone will come to offer, he will be able to take this to eat a full meal.
In fact, the Qing Dynasty was the darkest and most backward dynasty in China's feudal dynasty, especially the closed country let our country fall into the abyss of eternal disaster, opened a modern history full of suffering and blood and tears, the Qing Dynasty, whether it was Kangxi or Qianlong, there was no prosperous world to speak of, even if the population increased a little, but the society was still dark, the people could not eat and clothe, if this can be called a prosperous world, it is really ridiculous.