Although during the Qing Dynasty, because of the implementation of the closed country policy, the Qing Dynasty's science and technology lagged behind the Western world, but the Qing Dynasty's population and land volume was huge, and various domestic resources were abundant, resulting in the Western powers not taking a little advantage in trade with the Qing Dynasty, in order to reverse the trade deficit with China, the British used a very despicable means, they used to smuggle opium to the Qing Dynasty to earn foreign exchange for the Qing Dynasty.
Because the British imported opium into the Qing Dynasty, the real money and silver of the Qing Dynasty flowed into the pockets of the United Kingdom, and the people of the Qing Dynasty were addicted to opium, and their bodies were not as good as a day, so I will show you a group of historical photos of people who were poisoned by opium during the Qing Dynasty.
In the picture, a man is surrounded by his wives and concubines smoking opium, and the opium smokers give the impression of being skinny and lying on the bed, but these people are full of wealth.
This family looks like a very powerful local family, otherwise where did they get so much money to smoke opium, and this man can have four wives at the same time, which is not something that ordinary people can do in the late Qing Dynasty, after all, the national treasury of the late Qing Dynasty has not much silver.
They also had servants waiting by the side, which was another level higher than those who went to the smoke house, and unlike the others was the woman who stood by and read a book, her identity may be the lowest status in the family, but she is also the most sober person.
Smoking opium can be addictive, and if you are unlucky enough to catch it, it will be difficult to quit.
A man smoking opium in a banana field, this photo was taken in 1883 in Guangdong.
At that time, the British imported opium into the Qing Dynasty through the East India Company established in India, which caused a large number of Qing people to become addicted to tobacco.
The British, on the other hand, did not manage so much, they only wanted to earn foreign exchange from the Qing Dynasty, and those who became addicted to smoking became devastated from then on.
The man did not have any shoes on his feet, but his opium smoking equipment was still quite complete, and it was possible that he was secretly hiding from his family in the banana field in the name of coming out to work.
This photograph was taken by a British missionary in the Canton area in 1846, showing a group of teachers huddled together smoking opium.
These people were intellectuals of the time, but they had degenerated to the point of taking pride in smoking opium, and the thoughts of these people were as shameful as the braids on their heads.
Before opium was imported into China, these teachers were all drinking tea together in tea houses to discuss the situation, but since the bad habit of opium smoking was introduced to China, these people did not taste tea.
The father and son sitting in Kangtou smoking opium, these two people should be people from the northeast region, to be honest, it is more chilling to see such a scene.
The hairstyles on the heads of these two men are the yin and yang heads left during the Qing Dynasty, so it can also be determined that they are qing dynasty people.
The father himself lay on the bed smoking opium and taking his son with him, which was simply harming his son, and opium was a drug, and as long as he was infected, he could no longer extricate himself.
This photograph, taken in 1885, shows two brothers smoking opium together.
Both of them looked relatively young, but they were unfortunately infected with opium, and once opium was infected, it was very difficult to quit.
The two men seem to have become emaciated, they may have been smoking opium for a long time, and the end of the waiting for them may be ruined and then left on the streets.
A group of workers were smoking opium en masse in their dormitories, watching them hang uniformly on the wall, and these people should not be ordinary workers.
Especially the two people lying on the bed, they seem to be very intoxicated, which almost became the opium smoking as long as they were people with a little status during the Qing Dynasty.
They don't know the harm this thing does to the body, and as soon as they touch it, they will become addicted and fall into endless decadence.
The man in the photo is sleeping on the street smoking opium, and to be honest, he is so poor that he doesn't even have a home, but his tools for smoking opium are still quite well prepared.
This photo was taken at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and the braids on his head seem to have been cut off, and looking at the clothes he is wearing, he should have been a decent person before, and may have become like this after being infected with opium.
He used a few wooden planks to build a makeshift bed on the street, and the pillow was also a piece of wood he had picked up, and he really couldn't understand what he was for, couldn't he smoke opium?
In this photo, a group of hypocrites gather to smoke opium, and these people appear to be the children of their local rich families.
Because these people have money and power in their families, they don't have to worry about their livelihood, so they often get together to do incredible things.
Although the family conditions of these people are superior, but their bodies have begun to lose weight because of the long-term opium smoking, these addicts will eventually lose their family business.
This was also the epitome of the entire Qing Dynasty at that time, when the entire Qing Dynasty was already terminally ill.
A scene on the streets of Tianjin in 1885, where a man is lying on the street smoking opium.
The man was supposed to be a laborer at the docks, and his age seemed to be a little older, and his thin body looked like the result of chronic malnutrition.
Although his physical condition was not good, his tools for smoking opium on the ground were still quite complete, and his meager income did not know how long he could support such a decadent life.
The two men had already smoked the four walls of their house because they were smoking opium, but they were still unrepentant, lying in the empty home and continuing to smoke harmful opium.
They could not find anything of value in their house except for two baskets, and even the bed they slept in was made of four benches.
This is already the case at home, and I really don't know how their hearts are so big that they can still sleep peacefully and smoke cigarettes.
This photograph was taken in 1885, and the people in the photo are almost a big smoking gun per person, which is not difficult to understand why they were bullied by imperialism at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Imperialism was rapidly developing into modern society at this time, but the people of the Qing Dynasty were all actively joining the army of smokers.
After these people become addicted to opium, the whole person's life and spirit will fall into decadence, and then they will continue to sink until the whole person is abolished.
Imperialism used opium to earn the foreign exchange of the Qing Dynasty, and then let the qing people's physique decline more and more, and then came to bully the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty was like this step by step to its demise.
This photograph was taken in 1895 and shows a woman lying in bed smoking opium.
It is a pity that such a beautiful girl was infected with opium, and judging from her dress, she should also be a rich lady.
During the Qing Dynasty, there were countless rich ladies like her who smoked opium, and at that time they even thought that smoking opium was in line with their status in upper society.
Although the British smuggled opium into the Qing Dynasty to harm the people of the Qing Dynasty, the self-control of these people was also too low.