For a long time, our understanding of Qing officials has basically come from the description of film and television works. This is a set of photographs of Qing officials taken by missionaries, which show us the true image of Qing officials. Pictured: Officials in Outer Mongolia in the late Qing Dynasty continued to wear flower plumes on top of the Qing Dynasty.
This is a classic scene of the Qing Dynasty county grandfather judging the case, officials, masters and other people are on high, and the prisoners do not have a little human dignity, they kneel on the ground and do not even dare to lift their heads.
Zuo Zongtang, the national hero who recovered Xinjiang, looked like a torch. Zuo Zongtang was an official all his life, but he was extremely clean. As an important courtier of the imperial court, his family life was very difficult, and when he died, there was only one year left in the family, and many of the previous fenglu were donated to the poor.
Yehenara Ruilin, the governor of Liangguang in the late Qing Dynasty, appeared to be very energetic. In the lifeless atmosphere of the late Qing Dynasty officialdom, Ruilin seemed to be a clear stream of existence.
This is a family photo of an official, and the concubine on the left is not eligible to sit and take pictures. The officials in the photo have sharp eyes, are not angry and arrogant, and give people a deep sense of oppression.