These old photos are all post-colored
The man sitting in the chair looked domineering. His identity is not simple, he is the iron hat King Yixuan, he is the sixth son of the Daoguang Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the younger brother of the Xianfeng Emperor, and the uncle of the Tongzhi Emperor. Yi Xuan was much more intelligent and talented than his brother Emperor Xianfeng in terms of talent, and the Daoguang Emperor had also struggled for a long time over who Yi Xuan and Yi Xuan (Xian Feng) would appoint as heirs. If Daoguang had chosen Yixuan in the first place, the Qing Dynasty might have been a different story.
Woman sitting in a chair washing her feet. The style of this foot basin is very similar to what we have today, but this should be a pottery product. Many people may be curious, doesn't it mean that women had to wrap their feet in ancient times? Why didn't this woman wrap her feet? In fact, at that time, not all women had to wrap their feet, only Han women wrapped their feet at that time, and there were still a considerable number of ordinary women who did not wrap their feet, because they needed to work in the fields.
Children working on the construction site. They were wearing worn-out clothes, and the clothes were covered with dirt, and the children at that time were really miserable. At a young age, they have endured the pressure of life that they should not have to bear at this age, and they have to come out to make a living on their own.
Two prisoners squatting on the ground, both wearing heavy wooden shackles, bowed their heads and looked confused. Standing next to them was a servant, who was wearing a very wide overalls that looked out of place.
At the entrance of a building, a Qing Dynasty soldier was standing guard. Not far behind this soldier stood a man, one hand supporting the wooden pillar in front of the door, his body leaning obliquely, he squinted his eyes, as if he was spying on the situation inside the door, the key was this man's behavior, the soldier standing guard did not notice it at all.
Sitting in the middle with a small mirror in her hand was Empress Dowager Cixi. As the most powerful woman in the late Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi fiddled with her headdress in front of so many people, which was really "smelly and beautiful". The two closest daughters to Cixi in this photo are Empress Dowager Cixi's female officials, Yu Deling and Yu Rongling, and the one on the far left is the empress of the Guangxu Emperor.
A group of pirates about to be executed on the beach by the sea. The second pirate on the left has a hairstyle called "Tsukiyo-toe", which was the hairstyle worn by adult Japanese men at that time. It seems that many of the pirates at that time were Japanese ronin. Many of these captured pirates were beheaded and paraded in public.
The man standing in the middle was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and he was puyi, the last emperor. The two people standing on either side of him were his teachers, Zhu Yifan (pictured left) and Chen Baochen (pictured right). Everyone should pay attention to the fact that the position of Puyi's station is obviously one step higher than that of the two teachers, this is because in ancient times there was a strict hierarchy system, and the monarchs and subjects were different, even if the emperor took pictures, he was one level higher than the teacher.
A giant of the Qing Dynasty who took a photo with foreigners. This man is still recorded in history, this person is called Zhan Shichao, he was working in a factory in Shanghai, once inadvertently, he was discovered by foreigners, this foreigner is very economical, think that Zhan Shichao's height can be used, so take him abroad, take him to perform around the world, Zhan Shichao became a tool for foreigners to make money.