This group of precious historical photos was taken by a British naturalist Wilson in the late Qing Dynasty in 1899, Wilson came to China for twelve years, during which he took a large number of old photos of the daily life of the people in the late Qing Dynasty, as well as the distribution of local plants, flowers and trees.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the poor people in the village took old photos with sad faces, and Wilson, a naturalist of that year, was traveling around Sichuan, and he used the camera in his hand to take free souvenirs for the local people, and lived with them very harmoniously and enthusiastically.
On the banks of the Minjiang River, the towns and cities carry flat burdens along the road sell old photos of vendors carrying straw shoes, and the vendors standing on the right side also sell bamboo fibers and paper for women's shoes, all of which are used by women to make female red. It is reported that the altitude of this place is 1768 meters high, and the naturalist Wilson liked the quiet beauty of this place very much, and recorded a lot of human history about this place in his biography.
According to his biography, a photograph of the naturalist Wilson with the owner of a farm in the countryside, Wilson conducted botanical research everywhere he went, as well as a record of the details of the lives of the local people. Wilson's photograph of the lives of the people everywhere in the late Qing Dynasty has now become an important video material for historians to study the history of the Qing Dynasty.
The people in the village took pictures of the packaging of lily seeds, and the naturalist Wilson said that he saw a strange flower called the imperial lily in Minjiang, Sichuan, and then he brought this peculiar imperial lily seed to Europe and the United States to introduce it, which soon opened in the Western garden and became the most beautiful scene among the hundred flowers.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the village scenery around Sichuan, the naturalist Wilson called Sichuan at that time a flower wonderland, although the local people at that time lived in a very poor life, but next to the cold house where they lived were strange flowers and grasses. And in the courtyard of the inn where you can stay overnight, you will also see a variety of unusual flowers and trees, which are even more unique at a glance and the green brick and stone tile houses are swaying.
An old photograph of a poor man carrying a hundred pounds of tea bricks on foot up the mountain, and the men in the old photos are all tea brick vendors in the west at that time. Naturalist Wilson said the man in the old photograph weighed one hundred and forty pounds of tea bricks, even more than they weighed. At that time, people lived in poverty and backwardness, and it was not easy to carry tea bricks on their backs for many years.