The only surviving photograph of the Guangxu Emperor, taken on January 7, 1902. It's so sad that a dignified emperor didn't leave a photo, not as good as an ordinary person. When the Guangxu Emperor and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled the capital or returned to Beijing from "westward hunting", the old days called the car of the emperor and his concubine "Luanjia", because he was called the emperor, and then went out and returned to be called "Huiluan". A reporter secretly took this photo, so the angle of the photo can only be like this.
There is a frontal photo of Emperor Guangxu circulating in the world, which should be true. In the words of many important ministers of the imperial court at that time, Emperor Guangxu was indeed a handsome young man. It's just that he's too young. A lot of life experience is insufficient. He is also ambitious. I just can't hold my breath. That's what led to tragedy
Cixi who was "secretly photographed", this is the Cixi who was secretly photographed, and the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu were secretly photographed when they "returned to Luan" to the capital. Because the photo was taken by Princess Deling, Cixi was also very tolerant of this.
The picture shows an old photo of the Empress Dowager Cixi traveling surrounded by thousands of eunuchs, and the Empress Dowager Cixi is not only extremely extravagant in dressing, but also likes to dress up. And even if it is a small daily trip, it is often thousands of hundreds of people traveling with it, which is more pompous than the emperors of the Qing Dynasty. The Empress Dowager Cixi, who is so extravagant and wasteful in life, can't complain that the world will criticize her like that
In 1910, the woman in the palace. Looking at this state, they were the most noble and temperamental group of women at that time. Their dress is typical Manchu style, all wearing big wings, feet wearing high flowerpot bottom shoes; the long foot-length flag dress looks very slim, the placket, cuffs, neckline, hem inlaid with multiple layers of fine lace, look good, in fact, it is not easy to walk, just like the current high heels, walking is difficult.
Encapsulated tea leaves. At a trading firm called Yilan, workers are packing tea leaves for export. One of them jumped into the box and stepped on it directly with his foot in order to press the tea firmly, which was really not very hygienic, and it seemed that hygiene was not particularly particular at that time.
There is a "tea washing" step in the tea ceremony, and the reason is that there is a possibility that the tea leaves may be contaminated during the process of processing and selling. Now tea making has been mechanized and standardized, with strict hygiene standards, and there is generally no need to wash tea
An old photo of the bedroom in the palace of Emperor Guangxu in the late Qing Dynasty. In the name of "paying respects", the Eight-Nation Coalition entered the Forbidden City with great dignity and high spirits. However, after the actual Eight-Nation Alliance entered the Forbidden City, more than 300 pieces of various treasures in its palace were lost, including the rare treasure of the Blue Jade Eight Expeditions and the Treasure of the Elderly.
The land system in the Republican era was more mature than in the late Qing Dynasty due to the promulgation of the Land Law in 1930. However, due to the lack of primogeniture, wars, and the institutionalized land market is still underdeveloped, each household is divided into small plots. In the picture, the thin, short woman begging on the street, caused by long-term malnutrition, does not grow tall, and has no excess fat, and the thin body looks pitiful.
The right woman in the picture is Concubine Yu of the Tongzhi Emperor, Concubine Yu is the Hesheli clan, she was peerless when she was young, she was a harem, and she was proficient in literature and ink, she was fine in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she was a talented woman in the name, but Concubine Yu was very unlucky, and the Tongzhi Emperor died within a few years of entering the palace, and she became a widow at the age of 19.
When the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded, the Empress Dowager Cixi ran away by herself, but left many concubines in the harem. When the Eight-Nation Coalition occupied the Forbidden City, Concubine Yu came forward to contact the ministers in Beijing to discuss countermeasures and sent people to reach an agreement with the coalition forces. Therefore, the harem concubines were not humiliated. Until 1932, he died at the age of 76.
This is another super famous prostitute who was often partnered with Xiao Rongxi at the time, Yang Cuixi. Her real surname is Chen, her nickname is Er Niu'er, Yang Cuixi is her stage name, and she was a courtesan in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China [1] . was sold to her adoptive father Yang Maozun, who asked her to learn drama and named her Cuixi.
Later, he began to sing Hua Dan opera in Tianjin Xiesheng Tea Garden, Daguan Garden and other theaters, and the repertoire includes "Fanwang Palace", "Red Plum Pavilion", "Picking Jade Bracelets", "Selling Rouge" and so on. Whether in terms of appearance or temperament, she can be said to be a second kill of other ordinary Qinglou women at that time.
On the boat, the family of three is happy, the children are smiling happily, not as lifeless as in other photos, the family is happy and full of vitality, although life is difficult, but as long as the business is good, you can still feel happiness and tranquility.
The six women in the photo, all of whom were the wives and concubines of the wealthy in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, wore simple hairstyles and looked low-key, but they all wore jade on their ears and looked like they were from a good family.
Mrs. Li Hongzhang, in the photo, a middle-aged woman in a luxurious official uniform is sitting precariously. The demeanor is dignified and elegant, it is Li Hongzhang's wife Zhao. She was dressed in a robe, a crown and butterfly shoes, and a court dress decorated her figure plump and round.
Mrs. Zhao was graceful and luxurious, and her bearing was extraordinary, which fully demonstrated the prestige of Mrs. Zhao at that time. Her daughter Li Jujiao was standing aside, dressed in a cheongsam, facing each other shyly, with a delicate demeanor, quite a bit of Zhang Ailing's shadow.
This wide and bulky hanfu was originally designed to show the dignity and status of a noble lady. However, in the eyes of today's people, it has become a symbol of bloated and restrained.
This kind of "quilt-style" traditional clothing just reflects the shroud of feudal etiquette at that time, and has also become a vivid footnote for us to interpret old photos.
Students. Once a girl is educated, her mental outlook is completely different. They are no longer trapped in the boudoir and can only be illiterate women, they are educated, knowledgeable, energetic, self-confident and generous, and after graduation, they will go to the society, participate in labor, and become the "half of the sky" to promote historical progress.
The real appearance of the three-inch golden lotus, Figure 4 Two couples do this in the room In the late Qing Dynasty, a woman smoked a big cigarette at home, and she should still be very young when she looked old. has already started to smoke big cigarettes, which shows that the poison of big smoke has extended to the claws of minors
If we walk on the streets of the late Qing Dynasty, we can tell at a glance which are the rich and which are the poor people, because in that kind of feudal dynasty, the difference between people's living standards is too great, some people are so rich, and some people have not yet solved the problem of food and clothing, if we see this scene, how will we feel?
In the winter of old Beijing in the late Qing Dynasty, a 70-year-old man shivered in the streets, and a small stall in front of him was wheat-covered with roasted persimmons and fried peanuts. In fact, in ancient times, doing such a small business was not like today's society that could enrich the world. At that time, the common people set up some small stalls, just to be able to get food, clothing, food and clothing for the family
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "white-collar workers" who pushed bicycles should have worked in foreigners' enterprises, and these 28 bars belonged to luxury goods at that time, and they bought one for 50 taels of silver. In 1868, foreigners brought bicycles to Shanghai, but they were still made of wood, and it was not until 1888 that the first modern bicycle was born. Ride one, the scenery is infinite, and the drag is full. At that time, Emperor Guangxu and later Puyi both favored bicycles.
The old man who fell on the side of the road in the great famine, and an old man with a child fell on the side of the road again, and the family may be left with one old and one young, and the old man may be left with the unkempt, weak and ignorant young children next to them. The old man had lost his sense of hunger, and in the middle of winter, his shirt was open, leaking out only a piece of skin, and looking at his face, he was grinning and enduring the last burning heat in his chest and abdomen.
In Tongguan at that time, due to the increasing number of refugees, Shaanxi, especially Xi'an City, was also difficult to support, so it had to close the road from Tongguan to Shaanxi, resulting in the accumulation of refugees at the junction of the two provinces, and the people were struggling to make a living.
Li Hongzhang was the most scolded traitor in the late Qing Dynasty, although many people complained about him. The inaction of the Qing Dynasty royal family, but it was the minister who took the blame, and he was still a minister who really wanted to plan for the country. However, Li Hongzhang is definitely not a very honest official. It is true that he sent many students abroad to study, paving the way for the emancipation of the mind during the Republic of China, but he also has his own weaknesses.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the biggest weakness of important officials and powerful ministers was money. The entire system of the Qing Dynasty was actually low-paid, and if you want money, you have to figure it out yourself. What can the officials think of? Isn't it better to take a little from here and a little from there? So Li Hongzhang has actually received a lot of gifts.
The prototype character of Zhen Huan in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" is the Empress Xiao Shengxian Niu Hulu. Niu Hulu is a Manchurian yellow flag, and his great-grandfather was one of the five founding ministers of the Qing Dynasty in the early Qing Dynasty and the first general of the Later Jin Dynasty, Batulu Yidu. Niu Hulu married Prince Yong at the age of 13 and later gave birth to Hongli. After Yongzheng ascended the throne, he was named Concubine Xi, and Yongzheng was named Concubine Xi in the eighth year. After Qianlong ascended the throne, Niu Hulu was honored as the empress dowager. Niu Hulu lived a very long life, living 84 years old, and was the longest-lived empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty, so she also fully enjoyed the wealth of the world.
When the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, the scene in Beijing City, the walls burned down by foreign devils collapsed, and the walls were broken and ruined everywhere, which was shocking. After the capital was occupied, it was sacked. Even the Empress Dowager Cixi's in-laws were humiliated, but she said a famous saying that the world felt humiliated, "Measure the material resources of China and the joy of the country"!
The hungry bald man was hugging a small tree and gnawing on the bark of the tree, but the lower part of the tree had long since been stripped of by the others, and the little tree was only crumpled and dry. In the background of the shot, a "civilized person" wearing a long shirt warranty card stands with his back to his back, perhaps, in the face of the overwhelming situation, individuals are powerless.
Real photos of the late Qing Dynasty, displaced poor people, ragged, unkempt, and without a fixed home. In the ups and downs of the Qing Dynasty, the people at the bottom were struggling to make a living, and they lived a life of eating chaff and vegetables. Many people go out to beg, and their eyes are full of despair, prosperity, the people are suffering, dying, and the people are suffering!
This is an old photo of a poor man begging along the street with his child in the late Qing Dynasty, and the poor man in the old photo is dressed in rags and skinny, and he is begging on the street with his children all the way. The child sitting in the basket was flustered, and his little face was full of fear and worry. In the late Qing Dynasty, there were often wars, so the streets were full of people's misery and withering.
A barber in the Qing Dynasty, he carried a picture of a shaved head. On one side is a basin for boiling hot water, and on the other side is a stool for customers to rest. Behind the barber are two notices, which were posted by the British in the year of Gengzi, which belong to the period of the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and Cixi and Guangxu of that meeting have fled west in a hurry.