In the late Qing Dynasty a hundred years ago, the world was difficult, life was varied, and both dignitaries and ordinary people have been obliterated in history. At the end of the year, more than ten photos of the last years of the Qing Dynasty were selected, "hearing is false, seeing is believing", and feeling the wind and rain of the late Qing Dynasty society. Just as the so-called "long live the name of the thousand autumns, the lonely thing behind the scene", the era of humiliation has gone away, but it cannot be forgotten!
Cixi, who holds a clean bottle, wears a Pilu hat and a crown of five Buddhas, and dresses as Guanyin Master of Putuo Mountain. The photo was taken in 1903 in the Lotus Bush of the North Sea in Xiyuan, and after late coloring, it is difficult to see that this is the 68-year-old Cixi, but the eye bags are drooping, and the years are difficult to violate.
In his later years, Cixi was a good Buddhist affair, Cixi dressed as Guanyin's addict, raised lamas in the palace, and staged Guanyin plays in the Summer Palace painting boat. There are several costumes a day, the eunuch plays Vedic, and Gege plays the dragon girl. The Qing Dynasty was at the end of its rope, but the ruler of the late Qing Dynasty turned a deaf ear to palace affairs and became a photographer.
In the scene of the life of the people at the bottom of the Qing Dynasty, the merchants who used unicycles to transport supplies got up early and greedily, rain or shine. These coolies don't make much of a living, pay low salaries, and sometimes don't get a job for days.
In a remote rural area, the fields in front of the village are planted not rice or cotton, but poppies. According to records, in Shanxi, "poppies are often planted in anointed paddy fields, and the grain is placed in the barren area." In order to solve the financial crisis and prevent the outflow of silver, the imperial court even encouraged the cultivation of large smoke. As a result, in the north and south of the great river, "half of the field is abandoned to plant poppies." In the end, the price of opium fell again and again, and everyone in the country could smoke it, which seriously eroded the national system of the Qing Dynasty.
There is no fixed place to live, and the family begs for food under the famine, but the rich people are in the pavilions and buildings, and the days are moist. This is a large family house, a two-headed stone lion town house, and there are often squatters begging for food at the door.
The real photo of the Qinglou woman, the two held hands, the other hand holding Kong Ming fan, crossed Erlang's legs. The two looked solemn, did not smile, and a pair of small feet were also very delicate.
Every New Year's Day, it is the happiest thing to be able to sell a pig. Two men carrying a black pig with bamboo poles also think of the sound of pigs across the screen. The pig had to be fed for two years, when there was no organic feed and no scientific feeding.
A contrasting photograph of a pair of small feet and a close-up of a leather shoe at the time. The Chinese people are happy to wrap their feet, which has opened the eyes of the foreigners who come to China. The foot binding that began in the Southern Tang Dynasty has been endless for thousands of years. In 1902, Empress Dowager Cixi issued an edict against foot binding, but with little success.
The city walls of old Beijing are beautiful, and there are people playing with ice beds on the moat. Beijing's ancient city walls were the most spectacular buildings of the time, but unfortunately they were demolished in the years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. Nowadays, I can only look at it in old photos.
In 1900, Li Hongzhang, the "framer" of the Qing Dynasty, was plagued by diseases and walked in a hidden way. In this year, Cixi used the Boxers to fight with the foreigners, and as a result, "his face was swollen" and he fled to Xi'an in a hurry. She ordered Li Hongzhang to come forward to negotiate peace with foreigners, and the 77-year-old Li Hongzhang could only be ordered to come to Beijing to negotiate from the southern boat in the face of danger.
Under Cixi's instruction to "measure the material strength of China and tie the hearts of the country", Li Hongzhang signed the Xin ugly treaty, and after returning home, he lost his voice and cried bitterly, and died of exhaustion a few months later.
In 1905, alice, the daughter of the president of the United States, visited China, and it was a scene in which she was carried by a eunuch to see Cixi. Later, in her diary, she was deeply impressed by Cixi's competence and majesty, while the Guangxu Emperor looked sluggish, like a puppet.
The scene of the Qing soldiers executing the prisoner made people tremble with emotion. In feudal society, the execution of prisoners was in public, and the onlookers who heard the news were crowded, and some people even clapped their hands and applauded the bloody scene. "Human blood steamed buns" can cure diseases and save people, and numbness and ignorance make people feel desperate.