The picture shows the drum tower taken by Japanese photographer Kazuma Ogawa in 1901. Beijing soil is pine, and the wind and sand are particularly strong in spring. The Republican writer Mei Shu wrote an article about the yellow sand in Beijing in April, and at 4 p.m. it was dark and the sun and moon were dark. At night, the wind blew down the door of his house, and the next day he woke up half-buried in dust in his bed.
The picture shows the most famous ointment of Duan's. Founded in 1909 by American businessmen in Shanghai, the company was soon exported to the whole country. Products include Duan's ointment, Duan's pain reliever, Duan's kidney protection pills, etc., Lu Xun also often buys Duan's medicines, and always prepares Duan's prickly water in summer.
The streets of Beijing photographed by Rainey Lorne in the first decade of the 20th century are piled up with garbage and dilapidated. In the early Republic of China, garbage in Beijing was often dumped on the streets, and the streets and alleys of the city and the rivers and ditches on the edge of the city were mountains of garbage of all sizes. According to the Beijing Manuscript, by 1930, the mass of dirt had accumulated to 6 million cubic meters. Erlongkeng is on the east side of the Taiping Bridge, not far from Daminghao. In the Qing Dynasty, this was the place where the people dumped garbage, and in the summer, the water was pit and the garbage was mountainous in the winter, and at the worst time, the residents had to "go over the mountain" when they went home.
The picture shows the Hubei Agricultural School, now Huazhong Agricultural University. In 1898, Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang, founded the Hubei Provincial Agricultural School, which was expanded into the Hubei Provincial Higher Agricultural School in 1905. After several changes, in 1952, Huazhong Agricultural College was formed by Hubei Agricultural College and Wuhan University Agronomy, and some departments (departments) of Hunan Agricultural College and Henan University. In 1979, it was approved as a national key university and directly under the Ministry of Agriculture. In 1985, it was officially renamed Huazhong Agricultural University and became a comprehensive university.