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Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

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Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

City streetscape. On both sides of this not-so-wide road, shops are next to each other, and these shops are beautifully built. It is this dirt road that is very incompatible with the buildings on both sides. On this dirt road, there are traces of wheels crushing one after another. At that time, why didn't people pay attention to the construction of urban roads?

Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

Three men sitting at the table eating. These three people, eating movements, different looks, some eat very greedily, some are posing, some are staring at the camera while eating. In the past, ordinary people could only eat a meal of dumplings during the New Year's Festival, and dumplings at that time were rare delicacies for many people.

Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

Two children outside the city gate. Due to the disrepair of the city walls, the city bricks have been mottled. The two children at the city gate, from their dress, can also be seen that they come from different families. The child in the blue dress on the left had a modest family; the child in a long white shirt on the side had either a scholarly family or a family of some social status at that time. You should know that in the Qing Dynasty, wearing a long shirt was also a status symbol.

Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

Two old ladies standing on the edge of a wooden pillar in the middle of the road chatting. In the winter sun, the two old ladies nagged their parents while basking in the sun. These two old ladies were wrapped in small feet, such small feet, trembling and majestic when walking, and it was very inconvenient to walk.

Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

Two men on the street carry a large fat pig. It felt like the weight was focused on the shoulders of the man in front of him, who looked very struggling. At that time, such a big fat pig had to be raised for at least a year. This is the native pork, the meat is tender and delicious, which is incomparable to the pork on the market today.

Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

A group photo of a couple and parents. The expressions of the people in the photo are very serious, without a trace of smile. The bride seemed to have been greatly wronged, and she bowed her head and looked unhappy. I don't know if she was really unhappy or if it was because of the first time she took a picture.

Late Qing Dynasty old photos: the bride looks aggrieved, Confucius and his grandson take a group photo with foreigners, and two men carry fat pigs together

Confucius's grandson in a photo with foreigners. In this old photo, standing in the front row, the rich-looking one standing between the two foreigners is Confucius's 76th grandson Kong Lingyi. This old photograph was taken in Qufu, Shandong in 1903 (the 29th year of qing guangxu). Qufu Confucius family, known as the "world's first" reputation, thanks to the glory of Confucius, the ancestor of the Confucius family, Qufu Confucius family in history has been long-lasting, generations of wealth, the status is very prominent.

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