In the late Qing Dynasty, there were a lot of Western merchants and missionaries to come to China, when the photographic technology has been passed over, many foreigners have used cameras to photograph the most real Qing Dynasty, when there was a Frenchman traveling around, he filmed the Qing Dynasty society and TV series are completely different, the exquisite and prosperous in the drama are all fictional, when the people can be said to be unhappy, which surprised many foreigners.
In the eyes of Westerners, the ancient East is full of gold, here mysterious and rich, is the most noble excess in the world, but the three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty made our country gradually lag behind the West, especially the closed country led to a vulnerable, heavy taxes and ordinary people can not afford it, even the basic food and clothing can not be maintained, even when Kangqian was prosperous, people were equally miserable, but the population base increased.
In the photos of the French, we can see the ruined streets of the Qing Dynasty and the poor people, before he came to China, he always imagined that this is a fairyland on earth, because during the Ming Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, there were foreign travelers who came to china and wrote travelogues, so Westerners were extremely disappointed here, but he was extremely disappointed when he saw the scene in front of him, which was very different from the China described in the book.
This Frenchman also went to Vietnam at that time, he found that Vietnam is very deeply influenced by Han culture, the officials here are still wearing the uniforms of the Ming Dynasty in China, but after the Manchu Qing Entered the Customs, the Han people were forced to shave their hair and change clothes, the Qing Dynasty is the last feudal dynasty in China, and it is also the turning point of China's feudal society from prosperity to decline, everyone should not be misled by TV dramas, and they want to cross to the Qing Dynasty at every turn, in fact, the lives of the people at that time were very sad.