If we mention the late Qing Dynasty, what comes to mind? Was it the Eight-Nation Alliance invading China, or Empress Dowager Cixi's hasty Northern Gu, or Mr. Sun, who cut his braids, or the Wuchang Uprising?
It should be said that everyone will have different answers, but most people's answers will be beaten with backwardness, and there are two impressions of revolutionary struggle. However, our impression of the late Qing Dynasty is only vague, and the decay and backwardness of the Qing Dynasty are only stuck in unequal treaties. So what was the late Qing Dynasty like that year?
With the development of the times, there are more and more information on the Internet, including the old photos taken by foreigners and Chinese at that time, let us understand the late Qing Dynasty of that era through a group of photos.
The first picture is of a poor man looking for lice. It should be said that when you look at this photo, everyone will not understand what it means, and even say with emotion, what are these poor people doing? How to seem a little passionate.
Perhaps we modern people dare not imagine that this is not the friendship between men and men in our minds at all, but the poor people at that time did not wash their hair for a long time, so there were often lice in their hair. But it is obvious that if you can't catch it on your own, you can only rely on your companions to help each other.
To be honest, when I saw this scene, my heart was greatly impacted, and I even thought of the monkeys in man and nature. Just like the scene between man and nature, monkeys and monkeys catch lice with each other, which is a basic way of getting along. But that's the monkey, that's the age of the animals. Although we once had a certain relationship with monkeys, but humans spent hundreds of thousands of years, finally to the state of man, why did it go back to the late Qing Dynasty?
Therefore, when we see this scene, I believe that as long as there is a little normal thinking, people will have a deep anger, and at this time, we will no longer pay attention to the arguments of those pure fans, and will no longer praise the so-called greatness of the so-called Kangqian prosperous world, but only want to scold the rulers at that time: Yang Yang Huaxia, Yang Yang human civilization, fall at the hands of Er and others, shameful!
Of course, the qing dynasty's sentient beings were diverse, but it was not only this scene. Because there is also a picture, it reflects the horror of the braid culture of the Qing Dynasty. This is a photo of a Qing Dynasty man sleeping, and what is more striking is that all the people are dragging their braids to the side of the bed.
Let's not say what the aesthetic of this pig's tail is, let's talk about this sleeping scene and what does this long dragged tail look like? My first instinct was that of the numbered corpses in the funeral parlor.
Moreover, when checking the information, it was also found that the people of the Qing Dynasty at that time basically could not wash their hair often, and could only apply hair oil on their heads. Therefore, when people sleep together, the whole room is filled with a very strong smell of hair oil.
I remember that a British lady recorded in her diary that when he went to Beijing for dinner, he smelled a pungent smell from afar, and when he looked back, he saw that a Qing Dynasty man was scratching lice in his hair. This scene deeply irritated the British lady, who angrily denounced that the so-called Qing Dynasty was a pig's tail, and the whole civilization was as dirty as it was.
Combined with the records of these foreigners, and looking back at this photo, and even combined with the photo of catching lice, perhaps we cannot understand why Mr. Sun must overthrow the Manchu Emperor, and absolutely cannot have any emperor left. It is not that Mr. Sun is too idealistic, but that the scene in front of him makes him unbearable to compromise.
Of course, it is already the norm for the people to suffer like this, after all, when there is no braid, the people are also skinny, but the rule of the Qing Dynasty makes the people look particularly backward. But under this stupid rule, the ruler himself will not have a good end.
The next picture is of the desolation of the Forbidden City. I saw that the Forbidden City in the photo was still very tall, but its scene no longer had the golden splendor of the past, only a piece of depression and weeds on the ground. Some people may ask why the photos show that it was still 1901, when the Qing Dynasty still existed, so why didn't you see the palace women and eunuchs? In fact, the answer is very simple, because Empress Dowager Cixi single-handedly kidnapped the wishes of all the people in the world, and as a result, she was driven out of the Central Plains by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and the Forbidden City, which was once the symbol of the empire, also became a training place for foreigners, and even a place for excretion, so overgrown with weeds, so depressed.
Although it is a great insult to him to describe Shang Martingale, I personally think that this is a very appropriate description of the ruler of the Qing Dynasty at that time, Empress Dowager Cixi.
In addition, there are two pictures that are also easy to cause people to reflect, one is a photo of the palace women in the palace, and the other is a photo of the people.
Only to see in the photo of this palace girl, a very old-looking palace girl is drying a quilt, they are not as beautiful as in the TV series, and the clothes are not so luxurious, but in general, although they are slaves in the palace, they are warmly dressed, and there is no yellow muscle thin, and even a smile can be seen on her face.
However, in another photo, a Qing Dynasty man stands there, although he also shows a little smile, but the whole scene does not bring any warmth at all. It turned out that this man was hungry and skinny, and the whole person could be described as skinny.
Although we usually ridicule a colleague who looks as thin as a rib essence, it is at least within the category of people. In this photo, the Qing Dynasty man already looks like a goblin, his ribs protruding, and his body is also covered with bones.
Some people may say that it was just a beggar, but in fact this was what most ordinary people in the Qing Dynasty looked like at that time. Why? The answer is simple, because the Qing Dynasty's population exploded, but the cultivated land was constantly eroded, just when high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes were incorporated. As a result, all the people can only be hanged by this food for one life, but they never have enough to eat.
From the photos, it is obvious that the man can't even eat much sweet potatoes, and has been hungry beyond human appearance.
Through the contrast between the two, we have to sigh that inside the palace, in the courtyard and outside the courtyard are two worlds. In the whole city of Beijing, the inside of the imperial palace and the outside of the palace are also two worlds. And this is the state of all sentient beings in the late Qing Dynasty, which can really be said to reflect to us what is called backwardness and what is called despair?
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