The past is not like smoke, and old photos make people and events from a long time ago vividly remember. Xiaobian collected 10 photos of the late Qing Dynasty and showed the details of social life more than 100 years ago.
Eight Flags Lady and Children.
Dressed in a grand costume, the lady treated the photo with a solemn gesture. The ornate headdress that attracted people's attention was a kind of headdress unique to the women of the Eight Flags- the tin, which was usually worn on serious and solemn occasions. Her children were plainly dressed and a little out of tune with her.
A beautifully dressed young woman.
This young woman, a Hakka from the southeast coast, wore a wide robe and a large sleeved skirt and feet on the cloud shoes, which more followed the Style of the Ming Dynasty.
Torture apparatus in the gate.
The photograph depicts a type of torture instrument used by the local government to torture prisoners, and the man was not a prisoner, but a model showing how to use it.
Soldiers of the Eight-Power Alliance and Chinese teenagers.
Soldiers took pictures of teenagers in pigtails, with insulting overtones. In the eyes of foreigners, a man's big braid is one of the signs of backwardness and ignorance in the Qing Dynasty.
Prince Qing Yili and other foreign ministers took a group photo.
On January 1, 1905, the Solar New Year, Prince Yili of Qing (in the front row, middle), Minister of Foreign Affairs Na Tong (second from right in the front row), and others gathered at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and went to Dongjiaomin Lane to congratulate foreign envoys on the New Year. They do not have the custom of celebrating the Solar New Year, but in order to enhance the friendship between China and foreign countries, they have to make changes.
Thinker and industrialist Zheng Guanying.
Zheng Guanying was a native of Xiangshan County, Guangdong Province, and together with Tang Tingshu, Xu Run, and Xi Zhengfu, he was known as the "Four Compradors" of the late Qing Dynasty. At the age of 16, he went to Shanghai to study business, and successively served as a comprador at the British merchant Baoshun Foreign Company and the Swire Steamship Company, and successively served as the general office of the Shanghai Telegraph Bureau, the deputy and general office of the Steamship Merchants Bureau. He also had a complete set of ideas for restoration, and wrote a book called "Dangerous Words in the Prosperous World", which demanded that the Qing court implement constitutional politics, learn business warfare, revitalize schools, and change the law with the core of wealth, strength, and national salvation.
Yuan Shikai's ID photo during his stay in Korea when he was about 30 years old.
In 1882, the 24-year-old Yuan Shikai followed Wu Changqing's troops into the Dynasty to quell the Rebellion, and he led a Qing army to cooperate with the action, taking the lead in rushing to the front, and soon settled the chaotic situation. Afterwards, Wu Changqing commented on him in his report to the Qing court: "The army is serious, the dispatch is good, and it is particularly courageous to rush to attack and suppress first. Subsequently, Yuan Shikai was stationed in Korea as an assistant military. In 1884, Yuan Shikai led his troops to quell the "Jiashen Coup", and his decisive and effective actions were affirmed by Li Hongzhang, the governor of Zhili. Since then, Li Hongzhang boldly appointed Yuan Shikai and let him play. It was not until 1894, on the eve of the Sino-Japanese War, that Yuan Shikai returned to China.
Group photo of the members of the imperial court.
From left to right: Wang Wenshao, Ming'an, Sun Jianai, Yu Shi. Wang Wenshao served as the Viceroy of Yungui, the Viceroy of Zhili, and the Minister of Beiyang, and later entered the Military Aircraft Department and was promoted to a scholar of Wuyingdian University. Ming'an successively served as a waiter in the warehouse field, a waiter in the Shengjing Punishment Department, and a general in Jilin Province. Sun Jianai successively served as a rebbe, a household department, an official department, a criminal department Shangshu, a scholar of Shengwen Yuange University, and a prince and a prince. Yu Shi served as the minister of lanzhou province and xining.
Mr. Bookkeeper.
Mr. Bookkeeper combines the functions of the current accountant and cashier, managing the entry and exit of materials and money from a large family or shop or factory. This photo is a posing work, three people checking the accounts, and one person smoking a cigarette and watching.
Anqing Vegetable Market.
During the Qing Dynasty, Anqing was the capital of Anhui Province, with a prosperous population and a developed economy. Judging from this photo, the vegetable market is bustling with people, very lively, and there is a strong human fireworks.