In studying the history of the late Qing Dynasty, in addition to documents and physical objects, we must not ignore the value of old photos. Today we publish a set of old photos of the late Qing Dynasty (corrected and colored by AI software), what historical information can you dig out from them?
Girls in the training course.
The girls attended primary literacy training courses, literacy and the knowledge of common words. In the late Qing Dynasty, the situation gradually changed, and both the government and the people opened schools or training courses specifically for girls, which improved the knowledge of some women and promoted women's emancipation.
Residents who live deep in the mountains.
The family lives in a simple grass hut in the mountains, and it is the mother and son who appear in the picture. They wear shabby clothes, the house can neither shelter from the wind nor the rain, how can it block the cold in winter? How to isolate mosquitoes in summer? The difference in living conditions can be imagined. They probably belonged to the Qing Dynasty "shack people" group, that is, displaced people who lost their homes and were displaced to the barren mountains to survive.
Boatmen on the Yangtze are eating.
These people are responsible for pulling fiber and loading and unloading goods, all of which are heavy physical work and very hard, but their food is very basic, a bowl of brown rice with a little pickle.
Small traders and hawkers.
Three vendors, one selling cigarettes, one selling peanuts and one selling sugar gourds. Their demeanor is also very interesting, some people are drinking tea, some people are eating, some people are smoking, looking at the camera together, their expressions and movements are natural, which is the work captured by photographers on the street.
The young man shook the bamboo.
Bamboo is a popular sport with a history of at least 600 years. "Yanjing Miscellaneous" recorded: "The children of Jingshi have the play of shaking empty bamboo, cutting the bamboo into two, making small thousands in the short cylinder, and continuingly, but the two ends are real, and the trick is in the middle, and the rope is wrapped around its small trunk, and the two ends are shaken, and the sound is like a flood bell, which is very audible." "At present, this sport has been inscribed on the first national list of intangible cultural heritage.
Tailor shop.
In a tailor shop, two guys are sewing clothes on a sewing machine. In 1872, sewing machines began to be introduced to China, which were very expensive at that time, ordinary families could not afford to buy them, only a few garment factories would buy them, and they definitely belonged to the first people in China to use sewing machines. In 1896, Li Hongzhang visited Britain and brought back a gift to Empress Dowager Cixi a gilded sewing machine.
Shanghai destroyed opium and smoking guns.
This photograph was taken in 1908. During the late Qing dynasty, opium brought heavy disasters to China, and later the imperial court realized that if opium was not banned, it would only lead to the fall of the Qing dynasty earlier. In 1908, China and Britain reached an agreement on smoking bans, and the United States also supported China's smoking bans, and organized a universal anti-smoking conference in Shanghai. It was against this background that Shanghai openly held an opium destruction operation, which was supported and praised by the general public.
Patient.
This patient's arm is abnormally swollen, and he is skinny and boneless, and he looks very seriously ill, I don't know what disease he has? According to photographers, he had his diseased arm removed at Wrilen General Hosptial, then gradually recovered and became stronger, gaining 22 pounds (about 10 kilograms).
Students write hard.
This is a classroom in a government school in the late Qing Dynasty, and the students are all writing seriously, I don't know whether to practice writing small letters, or take the exam? They are probably the last generation of students to complete their studies with a brush, right?
Engineering and technical personnel under the Great Wall.
Two technicians with big pigtails are using modern instruments to carry out mapping work under the Great Wall in preparation for the construction of the Beijing-Zhangjiang Railway. At that time, the surveying and mapping instruments were imported from abroad, and they probably had overseas experience or received training from foreign engineers.