"Things are people and not everything", looking back at the photos taken more than a hundred years ago, people and things have gone with the wind. "It is difficult to look back on the past, the east wind rises again, and the twilight of spring is a miserable"! Collect a group of old photos from the end of the Qing Dynasty and reproduce the historical scenes of that year, although trivial, but let future generations intuitively feel it, these moments and fragments are the original appearance of history.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the disasters were severe, and the living conditions of the poor people were desperate. There are both natural disasters and man-made disasters, such as the "Ding Pengqi Famine" in the north, which killed tens of millions of people. Many people leave their homes to become beggars and become displaced people. Even if you struggle, it is difficult to survive.
The mother and son in the photo are heart-wrenching, which is what the lowest people in the old society look like. The child in the mother's arms was already dying of hunger, and the mother was in tears. In a difficult world, it is better to live than to die.
A man named Huang Si was in a public display, which was more desperate than wearing a wooden shackle around his neck. The prisoner has a brick or plank at his feet, and once it is removed, the prisoner will die of exhaustion. The shackles are not in the "five punishments", but they are the most commonly used punishments used by the government to treat prisoners, and the size of the cage is linked to the crime of the prisoner, and the larger the crime, the smaller the cage.
In the scene in the simple tobacco house, a few smokers sit on the ground, and everyone holds a smoking gun there and smokes it. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, opium was rampant throughout the country, and the Qing court encouraged it in disguise, and the opium that was once in short supply was actually produced and sold by itself, and even exported. Because the price is low, even the poor people are also contaminated, and the whole country is shrouded in smoke, which is heartbreaking.
Zhao Xiaolian, the daughter of Zhao Fu, a famous and prestigious family in Taihu County, married Zhao Xiaolian at the age of 24 when Li Hongzhang was forty years old. Li Hongzhang, who had always been a mediocre official, ushered in a great explosion of career in the next thirty years and became empress dowager Cixi's most favored Han chen, thanks to Zhao Xiaolian's help. She wears a pint of commandments, a goose egg face is graceful and luxurious, full of wealth, very Wangfu. After Li Hongzhang died of illness, he broke the ancestral system and buried him, which shows zhao Xiaolian's status in his mind!
The Manchu flag bearer, who looked like Ma Yun, could see that she was not bound on her feet, she led the child, took the branch, and came from outside the city. The city walls in the distance are clearly visible, and there is a sense of historical vicissitudes.
The Boxer soldiers with large knives, with their headscarves wrapped around their heads, had determined eyes. Faced with the desire of the Western powers to divide up, the Boxer Rebellion rose up and "helped the Qing Dynasty and destroyed the ocean." For a time, Cixi saw hope, which gave her the confidence to fight with foreigners. But it backfired, the big blade, the divine protection body, could not do the guns and cannons of foreigners, and finally could only admit it.
Li Hongzhang's mother, Li Shi, was 72 years old at the time of filming. His son Li Hongzhang had become a feudal official. Although Li was born from a humble background, she was also a thrifty mother who bore the Li family eight children, six men and two women who were either rich or expensive. Li Hongzhang, in particular, was hailed by Cixi as "the man who recreated Xuan Huang". Lee died at the age of eighty-three and was posthumously honored as lady of the Commandments.
The mansion of a squire at the end of the Qing Dynasty, two-story attic, magnificent. There are many wives and concubines in the family, and he sits there, like a leisurely stroll, a proper winner in life!
After the Eight-Power Alliance occupied the capital, the originally prosperous streets of the capital were destroyed by artillery fire and the walls were broken.
After Cixi escaped, the imperial city was occupied by the division. After that, the city gates were closed, and except for the eunuchs who stayed behind, it became a place where people could not get away. In less than a year, it was overgrown and dilapidated.
The guangxu emperor empress Longyu's full body photo, her body is thin, her face is long and hunched, her face is yellow. Guangxu became empress in the fifteenth year, and she was Cixi's niece, and Guangxu was Cixi's nephew. The two could be said to be close relatives married, which was extremely natural at the time. The Guangxu Emperor, who was originally close to her, was cold to her, and let her stay in the palace for a lifetime.
Longyu is "soft and cowardly in nature, not good at talking", and has guarded an empty room since the wedding night, "depressed for more than twenty years." It is neither prestigious nor deprecating. The only thing he did was to sniff melon seeds in the long night until Cixi became empress dowager after her death. However, he did not expect to announce the abdication of the Qing Emperor under the coercion and inducement of Yuan Shikai, and single-handedly ended the Qing Dynasty!
In a horrific scene at Cixi's funeral, the paper man lifts the palanquin. When Empress Dowager Cixi was alive, she was extravagant and lascivious, and she did not stop when she died. The funeral was even more solemn than the Guangxu Emperor, which made the foreigners watching the ceremony sigh: The Great Qing is going to die!
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