Qing palace drama is often inseparable from the topic of harem competition for favors, but as we all know, in the late Qing Dynasty in China's history, the people's life was difficult, which was completely different from the scenes in the Qing Palace drama, and this group of photos from a hundred years ago made people silent.
The beginning of China's modern history was the "Opium War", which coincided with the twenty years of Daoguang, since the British dumped a large amount of opium into our country through India, the number of smokers in our country has increased, from the royal family to the officials and nobles to the common people, and there are smokers everywhere.
At first, everyone regarded it as a symbol of status, and the princes and nobles, both men and women, smoked opium, but when the drawbacks of opium became more and more obvious, there was a historical incident of the Qincha minister destroying opium in Humen, Guangdong, but this interfered with the "wolf ambitions" of the great powers.
As a result, the Opium War ended with the signing of the first unequal treaty, the Treaty of Nanjing, at this time in the Qing court, the official rule has been completely decayed, corruption has become a common practice, the princes and nobles are still greedy for pleasure, officials collude with each other, the peasants are bankrupt and exiled, and the huge indemnities in the unequal treaty are also pressed on the common people.
After the defeat in the Opium War, Wei Yuan put forward the idea of "mastering the art of mastering the art to control the Yi", advocating learning the science and technology of Western countries, and spent a lot of time writing a comprehensive book that introduced the science and technology of Western countries and the knowledge of world geography and history, "Atlas of the Sea Country".
However, as soon as this book came out, it was not taken seriously, but first had a great influence on Japan, and after Japan was forcibly opened by the great powers, it carried out the meiji restoration, and the modern Japanese scholar Yasushi Inoue once said: "At the end of the shogunate, Japanese scholars and cultural people and other ,...... For example, Yokoi Konan's ideas became revolutionary and inclined to foundingism, and the opportunity was to read China's "Chart of the Sea Country". ”
However, after the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Empress Dowager Cixi and Prince Gong Yixuan launched the Xin You coup, and in the late Qing Dynasty, they were poisoned by the great powers, the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed, and foreigners poured in without scruples, and Empress Dowager Cixi reused the Western affairs faction and began the Western Affairs Movement.
However, the foreign affairs movement was not carried out thoroughly, the most important thing was the layers of scavenging of corrupt officials, and the flattery of Empress Dowager Cixi, so that even if advanced weapons were introduced, no bullets were fired, and in 1894, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Beiyang Navy was completely destroyed, which also marked the bankruptcy of the foreign affairs movement that lasted for more than 30 years.
The people are running for survival all day long, some people are selling art on the street, bold performances, such as bone reduction, and refugees fleeing the wilderness can also be seen everywhere, a group of people share a small pot, boiling bark, etc., while the landlord is full of oil, some of the squires bully people, arbitrarily deduct the wages of the peasants, but the peasants have nowhere to seek justice.
The palace was another scene, singing and dancing, Empress Dowager Cixi was on top, whether it was her son Emperor Tongzhi, or the later Guangxu Emperor and Xuantong Emperor, they were just pawns at her mercy, and the highest right to speak was still in cixi's hands.
Originally Cixi was the main warrior, when did it change? Probably from the loss of Zhennanguan, the Eight Flags disciples were no longer the Eight Banners who were full of spirit and rode on horseback to conquer the four directions, they were already moths of the late Qing Dynasty, useless, and only knew how to enjoy themselves.
In 1912, the Qing Dynasty ended, and China entered another new era, and our country was destined to bloom again.