After the Opium War, the Qing Dynasty was about to collapse. At this time, many foreign photographers walked into China, walked into the streets and alleys, and recorded the shape of Qing Dynasty society with their lenses. Although, nowadays, people will be full of inconceivable, after all, these real photos are completely different from what the TV series presents. But this is the society that was there, the memory of that nation.
Outside the Forbidden City, an old eunuch was out of the palace. His dress and face are not as gorgeous as the eunuchs in the film and television dramas, and he lives a life of nurturing at the feet of Tianzi. Although he entered the deep palace at a young age and was cut off from the opportunity to lose his body early, after being locked up in the palace for a long time, when he walked out of the palace again and prepared to retire to his hometown, the whole person was no different from the "mummy".
Several Warriors are on duty. They were skinny, and there was not much difference between their bodies and the guns they carried on their shoulders, but the words "brave" were still printed on their chests. It can be seen that at that time, although the Qing Dynasty still owned a large area of Chinese land and thousands of troops and horses, how could such a soldier compete with the strong ships and cannons of the Western powers?
A street vendor, armed with an umbrella full of holes. In ancient times, kings always valued the farmers who honestly stayed in the fields to cultivate the land, because these farmers were very fixed, and the farmland was the basis for their survival, not only could they pay grain on time every year, but also contributed to the stability of ancient royal management. And the traders, who travel all year round, are not only not conducive to paying taxes, but also look at the differences in various places, and it is easy to find problems. Therefore, it "emphasized agriculture and suppressed commerce." Traders often struggle to make money.
One prisoner was about to be sent to Ninguta, in what is now the northeast. Although Ninguta is the hometown of the Manchus, and now it is developed very well, at that time, especially in the eyes of the Central Plains people, this was tantamount to the end of the door. Because in the far north, not only do they not have any relatives, but the Ninguta area is still snowy and snowy all year round, and there are all kinds of beasts.
In a military camp in the Qing Dynasty, an elderly General of the Eight Banners was training the army, and the walls around him were printed with bows and arrows and knives. At this time, the combat effectiveness of the entire Qing Dynasty army was very low, and the training intensity in peacetime was also very weak. The old general looks stooped on his back, completely without the heroic posture of "the old man talking about juvenile madness", perhaps, just like the Qing Dynasty, he is walking towards the twilight of life.