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Editor|Akiko long-winded
What was the late Qing Dynasty like more than 100 years ago? Although we have no way to witness it through time and space, many old photos of the late Qing Dynasty have been handed down, and through these photos, we can see a real late Qing Dynasty.
In the picture are two Han girls, their demeanor is full of relaxation and liveliness, from their dressing and surrounding decorations, their family is very wealthy, lying under the girl is a Western-style sofa, this era can use Western-style furniture, is not an ordinary family.
If you want to say that the Qing Dynasty loves to take pictures the most, it must be Cixi's, although in the backward Qing Dynasty, but Cixi left a lot of photos, this picture is Cixi and the concubines of the Guangxu harem took a photo together, her right rear is the Guangxu Emperor's Longyu Empress, in addition to her is Cixi's niece.
Although she is the queen, she is not loved by Guangxu at all, but Emperor Guangxu is only an emperor who does not have much real power, as Cixi's niece, even if there is no Guangxu's favor, Longyu's life is also good.
I have to say that Cixi really loves to take pictures, and every time she takes a photo, she has to stand in the C position, when she took this photo, Cixi was already very old, but she was still "old-fashioned", looking at this dress, this dress, more exquisite than the young concubines.
This picture is a group photo of Cixi and a foreigner, Cixi naturally dressed up with her heart, and the pearl shawl on her body was so luxurious that she could be blinded.
The queens of the Qing Dynasty are not all ugly, the last emperor Puyi's queen Wanrong is very beautiful, this is a photo of Puyi and Wanrong, Wanrong is very gentle sitting in the chair, Pu Yi is also a little high-spirited when standing behind, at this time they probably can't imagine that they will encounter so many rights and wrongs later.
This is a family portrait of an official of the Qing Dynasty, the official on the left is very majestic, and the lady next to him is dignified and elegant, surrounded by the children of the family, it can be seen from their dress that this is a proper wealthy family.
A family dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes was operating on their children in a hospital run by foreigners, and with the change of the times, people gradually accepted Western-style medical treatment, but at this time, people usually choose to find Chinese medicine to treat when they are not feeling well, and in their opinion, Western medicine in white coats is far less reliable than old Chinese medicine.
Cixi is a person who pays attention to pomp and circumstance, even if she just goes out to the door, she has to be sure, and the big eunuch Li Lianying in front of the right is also arrogant.
There is a very obvious feature of the late Qing Dynasty, that is, the rich are too rich, too poor to be too poor, the rich are covered in silk and satin, gold and silver jewelry, and the poor do not even have a piece of clothing to cover their bodies, and the few homeless people in this picture are old and young, but none of them have normal clothes.
Because the standard of living is not good, people are relatively settled in terms of hygiene, coupled with the braided head of the Qing Dynasty, so the head of the people is covered with lice, which not only makes people itch and unbearable, but also the lice will suck blood, the picture is a group of people scratching each other's lice, and the people who watch it are very uncomfortable.
Although this photo is nothing now, in the social environment at the time, the woman in the Qinglou in the photo took a picture with the man next to her directly wearing a belly pocket, which was also very bold.
This photo is more ridiculous, a man originally just wanted to find a hidden corner to facilitate it, but he didn't expect this scene to be captured by a photographer, and this photo has been circulated for more than 100 years, the man said he regretted it, and he should hold it back at that time.
In the past, weaving was an essential skill for women, and the two girls in the picture were spinning and weaving, and the two girls did not look very old, but they were already very skilled in weaving, and scenes like the one in the picture were very common in those days.
In the wedding of the late Qing aristocracy, the bride and groom were all richly dressed, and the two women in full costume behind them may be the bride's bridesmaids.
This photo can be said to be a naked pose, a group of officials standing in the field in full clothes, holding farm tools in their hands, but once the photo is taken, these people immediately throw away what they are in their hands and will disgust their dirty hands.
Some civil officials in the late Qing Dynasty did not have much ability, but their morale was not low, and it was the norm to be powerful and blessed, and the officials on the way were like this.
During the Qing Dynasty, the four-person sedan chair was far less magnificent than in the TV series, but it was such an ordinary-looking sedan chair, but it was a necessary car for dignitaries to travel, and ordinary people couldn't afford to sit on it.
In the late Qing Dynasty, opium poured into the country in large quantities, many people not only smoked opium, but also regarded this behavior as a popular trend, the two people in the photo were lying on the bed "wanting to die" smoking a big cigarette, looking at the decoration in the house, the family background of the two people was still very good, but looking at the state of the two people smoking opium, it is estimated that the family property will not take long to smoke.
The scene recorded in the photo is the scene of the trial of officials during the Qing Dynasty, two ordinary people kneeling on the ground and not daring to lift their heads, the four big characters of "fairness and integrity" on the heads of officials are very conspicuous, but there are not many officials who can really do these four words.
A group of men were gathering to smoke opium, and there were two servants around them, and one of the men took the time to look at the newspaper in the hands of his subordinates, but the action of burning opium did not stop.
Everyone has watched Qing palace dramas, but the real harem life is far from being as exaggerated as in the TV series, the relationship between the concubines is actually more like colleagues, the four concubines in the photo are still sitting together playing cards, it seems that life in the palace is quite boring, so the concubines find things to do for themselves.
In feudal society, the palace maids in the palace can leave the palace after a certain age, and the woman in the picture is the palace maid who has retired from the palace, but leaving the palace is not necessarily a good thing for them.
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