The Qing Dynasty is the last feudal dynasty in the history of the mainland, the Qing Dynasty from the fall of 1912, to today's 2021, the middle is only 109 years apart, but most people's understanding of the Qing Dynasty is still only an important historical event recorded in books, and what the real life of the Qing Dynasty people is like, I am afraid that there are very few people who know, today we will look at the life of the Qing Dynasty people through a set of photos.
A photograph taken by a French photographer in Shanghai shows a vendor carrying two baskets of geese selling on the street, a man with a yin and yang head, a unique symbol of the Qing Dynasty.
The man was supposed to be the kind of small trader who walked the streets, and there were a few men in front of him who were shopping on the side of the road, and it was supposed to be a wet market, and most of them had fixed stalls.
There are also many Western-style buildings in the far side of the lens, and across the river should be the concession area, and there is a building with a clock on it.
In a photo taken in a small farm yard, a small child is playing alone in the courtyard, behind which should be his home, this kind of house is built of wood, his family conditions should not be very rich, he is still wearing a flower cotton jacket, in that era it seems that only the family conditions are relatively poor all year round.
The three little boys sitting on the bench taking pictures, the three children wear relatively clean and decent clothing, their family conditions should be good, and these three children still have a yin and yang head.
The fisherman who is catching fish in the small river can see that the river is not large, and his fishing boat is also very small, and the fishing boat is full of cormorants, which are all masters of fishing.
This small river can feed his whole family, and can also afford so many cormorants at the same time, it is conceivable that although this river is not large, it must be very rich in fishery resources.
The photo was supposed to have been taken in the Liangguang area, where a vendor was selling sugar cane, and because the sugar cane was grown at home, he didn't have to worry about whether the sales were good or not.
The two servants of the large family, they put their hands in the sleeves, the weather should be relatively cold at that time, but the clothes worn by the two of them were still relatively rare, and their clothes were more similar to the skirts worn by women now, and it turned out that in that era, wearing skirts was a patent for men.
A rickshaw driver was drinking water in a tea booth, which was very simple, with two wooden barrels filled with water, which was supposed to be a public interest tea pavilion, and the rickshaw driver also wore a pair of straw shoes on his feet.
The square pagoda near Songjiang Square in Shanghai, this pagoda was built during the Northern Song Dynasty, using the brick tower architectural style of the Tang Dynasty, the tower is square, with a total of nine levels and a height of 42.5 meters.
At the beginning of the construction of the square pagoda, it was called the Xingsheng Sect Temple Pagoda, the Xingsheng Sect Temple was built in the second year of Han Qianyou (949 AD) after the fifth generation, after the construction of the Square Pagoda during the Northern Song Dynasty, because the pagoda was built in the Xingsheng Sect Temple, it was initially called the Xingsheng Sect Temple Pagoda.
During the Yuan Dynasty, due to the war, the Xingshengjiao Temple was destroyed so that only a bell tower and the Xingshengjiao Temple Pagoda were left, because there was no Xingshengjiao Temple, so people called it the Square Pagoda in the shape of the pagoda.
People often hear the idiom of male cultivators and female weavers in film and television dramas, but this scene has not really been filmed in film and television dramas, and the woman in the photo is spinning thread, which is very similar to the ancient water wheel.
The man who was cutting hair, the haircut equipment at that time was relatively simple, a washbasin plus a razor and a pair of scissors can be, people only need to cut the front of the hair to shave their hair, everyone's hairstyle is the same style.
The person who is selling on the street, the person who is performing, although he can't see his face, but his height is not high, he should be a child, he is performing on the bench upside down with his head, and there is a big knife for performance next to the bench, and the people who perform on the street at that time really look like they are practicing family members, rather than using opportunistic tricks.
A man was performing a sword swallowing, surrounded by crowds around him, everyone was watching him perform with wide eyes, the man who performed the performance was not wearing clothes on the upper body, and there was no spring mounted on the props at that time, it seems that the performance of swallowing the sword was real in ancient times, and it was all hard kung fu, and there was no such thing as a magic show.
Three poor women are sitting in the courtyard basking in the sun and sewing clothes, why are they poor women?
Because in the Qing Dynasty, the women of the rich and noble families did not have to work, so they all had to wrap their feet, these women did not wrap their feet, and they were not flag women, the clothes they wore were full of patches, and there was no hope in their eyes.
A vendor selling snacks was walking down the street, and the bucket behind him was obviously heavier than the front, and the tools should be placed in the back.
The three monks who came down the mountain, these monks should have gone down the mountain to buy cloth, although these monks are usually vegetarians, but their figures are still very strong.
In the street umbrella repair master, umbrella is an important tool for ancient people to travel on rainy days, the umbrella at that time in a family is still relatively valuable, the general umbrella will not be thrown away, people will ask the umbrella master to repair the umbrella, and then continue to use, in fact, this is also a good way to save.
The wheelbarrow driver who was waiting for his guests on the streets was a way of making a living for the poor in ancient times and an important means of transportation for the people at the bottom, after all, not all people were able to ride rickshaws and palanquins at that time.
A woman is weaving, this way of weaving is relatively simple, a few pieces of wood set up a shelf, began to work, although the tools are simple, but the process of weaving is not simple, you can see that she is threading back and forth with hand.
In the photo, the Shanghai Yu Garden, built by Pan Yunduan, a Sichuan envoy during the Ming Dynasty, is located in the northeast of the old city of Shanghai, which is a key cultural relics protection unit on the mainland.
Shanghai Yu Garden is a private garden with the characteristics of Jiangnan classical, and there is also a piece of jade linglong known as three famous stones in the garden, and the command post of the Xiaodaohui Uprising during the Qing Dynasty is also in this garden.
A beggar begging in the street, this beggar saw the photographer, on one knee begging the photographer, looking at his eyes very pitiful, his clothes were very tattered, and he was carrying a small child.
A fortune teller on the street, you can see that his stall is full of bamboo sticks for fortune telling, this fortune teller also wears a pair of glasses, he should have a certain amount of knowledge, compared with the fortune teller in the film and television drama, in fact, the person who eats this bowl of rice is just an ordinary person, not as magical as described in the film and television drama, they face ordinary people every day, and there are not so many mythical stories happening.