At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a woman appeared in front of the camera to show her wrapped little feet. A pair of small feet, a tank of tears. Seeing this photo, I took a cloth strip to wrap the arch of my feet since I was a child, nested into an inverted U-shape, walked left and right, and my feet have always hurt since I was a child! In any case, I can't express this kind of sorrow in my heart, poor woman, such small feet can't walk steadily, can't support the whole body, can't move forward
A group photo of noblewomen from a wealthy family in the late Qing Dynasty. The old-style marriage is actually called secular marriage, not the marriage you want now. Before marriage, he knew nothing about the marriage partner, and he was almost a strange existence. Despite the hordes of wives and concubines, the real favorites are almost the same as winning the jackpot! Looks are almost equivalent to touching the dark, all by luck!
When Cixi returned to Beijing, foreigners captured it from upstairs, and it was also the only real shot of Cixi, which attracted people's attention. The bright smile after seeing the foreigner has been passed down for hundreds of years, and it is really not easy. Foreign photographers have made historical contributions to let Chinese posterity see a real Cixi.
A feeling of sadness and helplessness. As an official of the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang specially put on the yellow horse coat given by Empress Dowager Cixi in order to highlight the importance he attached to visiting the United States, but he did not expect that this kind of dress would be a "strange costume" in the eyes of the Americans, making him an "outlier" in the eyes of everyone. Perhaps Li Hongzhang himself did not expect that his status and influence in China would be so different on the other side of the ocean. This cultural and cognitive difference has brought him to the fore and scrutiny in the United States, as well as lamenting the barriers and misunderstandings between different cultures.
A photo of a young lady who stayed in the ocean at the end of the Qing Dynasty with her girlfriend after returning to China. Qing dynasty clothes are too ugly, uglier than dresses! The two have good age faces.
The last empress Wanrong appeared for the last time, and Wanrong was indeed a pity that she married an incompetent husband, and the two women behind Wanrong were Puyi's own sisters and were not maids at all.
Yang Cuixi was a famous prostitute during the late Qing Dynasty. The popular Hua Kui, which in the Qing Dynasty, was simply heavenly fairy level. Beautiful nature, beautiful taste. There was an overnight fee of up to 12,000 taels of gold for one night. I don't know if it's true. The face looks like a hibiscus coming out of the water, out of the mud and not clean feeling, childishness, but has fallen into the dust
The Qing Dynasty army, in fact, is not bad. The defeat in the Sino-Japanese naval battle is a bloody example of the inability of feudal dynasties to lead new armies. Backward thinking, no matter how advanced weapons are, it is for nothing!
The real Qing soldiers were like this. The weapons used by these Qing soldiers are called carrying guns, and the Qing army also has different configurations. The main strength of the Qing army in 1911 was the "New Army",
The Yamen guards, at first glance, have no skills, only fierce to the people. Can the one holding the sword handle it? I feel that I can kick them both with my bare hands alone. It is indeed difficult to understand that the clothing has not changed for hundreds of years. In particular, the costumes of the Ming Dynasty are much uglier than those of the former Ming Dynasty, and they have not changed for hundreds of years.
A rare old photo of the late Qing Dynasty, a blind mother and son, holding a bamboo cane, hobbling and begging, and on his back, there is also a gray-haired old mother. In his world, full of ups and downs and darkness, but he never dared to give up on himself, the old mother on his back was not only a burden, but also the only bit of light and hope in life. Fate has left the mother and son on the brink of survival, but in the following years, will the mother and son finally be able to survive those years? It's hard to imagine. Filial piety is greater than heaven! May this scene be history.
Rural scenes in the late Qing Dynasty, thatched houses and earthen houses, it is good to wear good clothes in that era. I also lived in thatched houses when I was a child. It took 76 years to build a red brick house. In the era of suffering, in fact, it is not many years to solve the problem of food and clothing, cherish the current life
Mother and son live on the streets, mothers are in rags, their hearts are dripping blood, hateful times, poor mothers!! It's so heartbreaking, poor mother and son, they were born in that unbearable era is really helpless. Distressed and want to cry. This is how our ancestors came over, and we used to only hear grandpa say that there were no pictures, so we still couldn't imagine the pictures. Therefore, I have been telling myself in my heart that if I soar in the future, I must do good deeds to help those poor families and improve the living conditions of my children.