Since April 1, 2019, Chinese citizens do not need to return to the place of household registration to handle passports, ordinary passports have implemented the "national general office", usually their own citizens need to apply for passports when they go abroad, tracing the history of Modern Chinese passports, the late Qing Dynasty is undoubtedly a special era, the passports of the late Qing Dynasty were exposed, although the country was very poor and weak, but the above sentence is domineering.
China's first passport appeared in the twenty-eighth year of the Qing Dynasty(1689), was issued by the Qing government "letter-style collective passport", the issuance of this passport did not stop until 1839, Daoguang twenty years (1840), the first Opium War broke out, western countries forcibly opened the Qing Dynasty closed the door to the country, the Treaty of Nanjing is the first unequal treaty in China's modern history.
After that, the Qing government also began to authorize consulates or customs offices stationed outside China, and issued different types of passports for Chinese, at that time, due to technical and other reasons in China, there were no photos and other settings on Chinese passports, so in order to correctly distinguish the authenticity of the licensee, it was basically the use of text to describe the physiognomy of the licensee in detail.
Therefore, the passport area of the late Qing Dynasty is very large, and the largest piece of paper in the modern world passport is a passport issued to a Chinese diplomatic translator by Wu Tingfang, the Chinese Qing Dynasty minister to the United States, on September 1, 1899. As we all know, in the late Qing Dynasty, people in Western countries were not very fond of our people.
However, in the late Qing Dynasty, there was a saying in the passport that was domineering, that is, "when holding a passport in transit, please check and release it immediately, give protection according to the agreement, and do not be embarrassed to block", which means that customs personnel should act according to the rules and do not make it difficult to Chinese.
Why is this sentence domineering? In fact, everyone knows that the late Qing Dynasty was not as good as the Western countries that carried out the industrial revolution, and they had no choice but to sign unequal treaties. But people have a sense of shame and a desire to be treated as equals and a reluctance to be despised.
The passport is handed over to others to see, this sentence is also for others to see, but also to see for themselves, here to introduce Wu Tingfang, Wu Tingfang is China's first doctor of law in modern times, in 1896 served as a minister in the United States, Spain, Peru, 3 years later signed the first modern China equality treaty "Sino-Mexican Treaty of Commerce and Commerce".
Hu Shi, a modern Chinese thinker and writer, once made this assessment of Wu Tingfang: "When Wu Tingfang was a diplomat in the open seas, he relied on his strange behavior and remarks to overwhelm the arrogance of the Westerners and arouse their curiosity, and he was able to make the representative of a weak country respected by many outsiders. ”
The world knows that "weak countries have no diplomacy", but no matter how weak a country is, it still wants to fight for equal rights and interests, as well as realize equal rights and interests, it is precisely such an attitude of not giving up, in the spur and struggle, our country finally won the respect of the world.