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In 1911, it was three years after the declaration of reunification. At that time, there was a nursery rhyme in Beijing: "No need to pinch, don't count, the reunification is only three and a half years." "History has proven the correctness of this nursery rhyme.
This set of photographs was taken around the summer of 1911. Although the Qing Dynasty has embarked on the end of the road, the city of Beijing has no apocalyptic weather, but everything in Vientiane is renewed, and it seems to be more energetic and vibrant than in the past...
Zhengyang Gate
In 1900, the Boxer Rebellion' divine fire, the artillery fire of the Eight-Nation Alliance, destroyed the Zhengyang Gate Tower. The Zhengyang Gate Tower in 1911 looks brand new and tall, and the scars of ten years ago can no longer be seen.
Clinder Arch
Dongdan Arch Street, Klinder Arch. In memory of the German minister Clinder, in 1900, he was shot by the Qing army in the street during the Gengzi Incident, so Germany crossed the ocean to take revenge.
Dongan Gate
Dong'an Gate, the east gate of the Imperial City of Beijing, and Qing Dynasty officials entered through this gate. In the photo, you can also see people like officials, wearing cool hats and riding large horses. The following year, Dong'an Gate was destroyed in the midst of unrest.
Zhengyangmen Street
On the upper floor of Zhengyang Gate, overlooking the Zhengyang Bridge. In the middle of the Zhengyang Bridge, only the emperor's carriages and horses were allowed, so it became a place where beggars gathered, and was once regarded as a beggar bridge by foreigners. However, in the Zhengyang Bridge in 1911, there was no beggar gathering in the middle, largely because after the Gengzi Incident, the Qing Dynasty learned from the experience of Western urban management.
Shaded street
This tree-lined street is almost a representative of the urban environmental improvement of Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty. Hardening of pavements, gutters, sidewalk trees, street lights... What was once considered the world's dirtiest and messier metropolis has changed dramatically.
Goldfish Alley
Goldfish Alley in 1911, two rows of Oriental rickshaws, witnessed the prosperity of this street. The Toyo rickshaw opened up the Shanghai and Tianjin markets as early as 1874, but it did not enter the city of Beijing until after the Gengzi Incident.
Mall
A commercial street outside the front door, with yellow dragon flags hanging high on both sides of the shops. In the past, the Qing Dynasty did not have a national flag, until 1889, the Tianjin Ordnance Bureau completed the design sample, the dragon on the dragon flag is inlaid, five-clawed flying dragon, the dragon head upwards.
Manchu women and children
A Manchu woman walks down the street with her child in her arms. Behind them was a Qing soldier, dressed in Western style to indicate that he was a new army. In the second year of the Restoration of Xinhai, the People of Beijing should be grateful that they were born in Beijing and did not end up in Wuhan, Xi'an and other places.
University faculty dinner
In 1911, Chinese and foreign teachers from the Beijing Normal University Hall had a dinner together. Beijing Normal University Hall is the predecessor of Peking University, when the school had majors such as economics, liberal arts, law and politics, gezhi, agriculture, engineering, and commerce, and was the first comprehensive university in mainland China.
Street chess
In 1911, the Qing Dynasty had already embarked on a strange road, and people were still playing chess and entertainment on the streets. It gives people the feeling that "the merchant girl does not know the hatred of the country, and sings the backyard flowers across the river". Of course, for the ordinary people, they do not control the chess game of history, not even a chess piece on the chessboard. Living their own lives is their history.