Xiaobian opened a yellowed, even vague old photo album to take everyone to understand the social history of the late Qing Dynasty. If you could travel through time and space to have a face-to-face conversation, what question would you like to ask the people in the photo?
A group of children are led by adults to pick up tea leaves.
Tea picking is an important process to eliminate inclusions and improve the quality of tea in the process of tea making. This is not an effortless task and can be done by women and children in general.
cobbler.
Shoe repair is a trade that has been passed down for thousands of years, and shoemakers mainly work on mobile work. He carried a flat shoulder, one end picking a wooden box, the other picking a bamboo basket, the wooden box containing leather, glue, nails and other items, and the bamboo basket contained scissors, files, small anvils and other tools. Shoemakers come out to work, generally do not shout, take a rattle, "gollum" a shake, solicit business.
A teenager sitting on a flat shoulder.
This photo may be a pose, although the teenager dresses himself as a laborer, but he is thin and can't pick up two buckets of water.
From 1880 to 1890, Fuzhou hunters set up traps for catching tigers.
During the late Qing Dynasty and Tongzhi and Guangxu years, the living space of urban and rural residents in Fujian continued to expand, the forest area gradually decreased, and the range of activities of the South China tiger became narrower and narrower, resulting in them often entering the village, harming the people and livestock, and the situation of "tiger plague" was grim. Local hunters moved, either with shotguns or traps, to capture the South China tiger. There is also a foreigner in this hunter team (third from right).
In 1903, Xiamen villagers fought tigers.
Hunters from a village in Xiamen went into the mountains for many days, ate and slept in the open, and finally killed a tiger. When it was carried to the village, it immediately aroused the crowd of villagers, who were very excited, laughing and pointing at the dead tiger.
Portrait of Li Jingfang, son of Li Hongzhang, in 1898.
Li Jingfang was originally Li Hongzhang's nephew, because Li Hongzhang had a son who died earlier, and Li Jingfang passed on to Old Li as the eldest son. Old Li did not give birth to the first healthy child until he was 41 years old, his wife Zhao Xiaolian. Li Jingfang successively served as a minister of mission to Japan, a minister to Britain, and a left waiter in the Ministry of Posts and Communications, and the elder Li commented on him: "Wu'er Jingfang is overwhelmed with heavy responsibilities. ”
Group photo of 4 children.
More than 100 years ago, the four children's dress styles varied; compared with today's children's clothing, it is even more different.
Huang Si, a prisoner, was sentenced to be shackled to public display.
In the late Qing Dynasty, many images of prisoners were recorded, but few left the names of prisoners, and Huang Si became an unfortunate "lucky one". Such an ordinary person, who was frozen by the camera for a long time, was he unexpected, right?
Ge Kunhua, Chinese lecturer at Harvard University.
Ge Kunhua is a man who is proficient in mandarin and classical literature, has donated five products of candidate tongzhi, and has long worked in the British consulate in Ningbo. In 1879, on the recommendation of the American Du devi, he went to Harvard University to teach Chinese course until his death in 1882. During his teaching period, he compiled the Chinese textbook "Chinese Quality English", which is called "the earliest ever book, Chinese written in Chinese and English to introduce Chinese poetry".
In 1894, the Kowloon Border Defense Qing Army.
In 1860, the Qing court lost to the Anglo-French forces in the Second Opium War and was forced to sign the Treaty of Peking, ceding the southern part of the Kowloon Peninsula to the British along with the neighboring Ang Chuan Chau, and then the Qing army fortified north of the ceded line. In 1898, the Qing line continued to move north, as the northern Kowloon Peninsula, the New Territories and more than 200 adjacent outlying islands were also forcibly leased by the British for a period of 99 years.