Preface
We all know that in the late Qing Dynasty, the decaying Qing Dynasty was crumbling, wars broke out, and the people were even more miserable, struggling to survive in the ups and downs of the last half of the feudal and semi-colonies, which are all textbook contents.
So what was the state of people's lives in the late Qing Dynasty? Will it be the state in the TV series?
Nowadays, we have found many photos from a hundred years ago, which are all recorded by foreign photographers in the real social situation of China at that time, and now the color restoration has been carried out through color technology, let us look at the real historical moments of that period and the true portrayal of the people through these color photos.
Precious "color photos" in the late Qing Dynasty - social variety!
Everyone knows that the famous Lin Zexu Humen sold cigarettes, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty a hundred years ago, opium was still the preferred pastime of many gentlemen, who did not want to forge ahead, wantonly squandered the money in their hands, and never cared about national affairs, because of the erosion of opium, they indulged in wine and wealth all day long.
The above photo is a group of young people in the late Qing Dynasty gathered together to "smoke a big cigarette" of precious old photos, you can see that there are calligraphy works hanging in the back, the material of their chairs and clothes can be seen their "strong assets", facing the camera, these people look quite proud, holding hookahs and smoke pots wantonly swallowing clouds and spitting fog, their situation is also rotten in the late Qing Dynasty
A microcosm, it is precisely because there were too many people with such moral degradation at the end of the Qing Dynasty that the demise of the Qing Dynasty was accelerated!
The above photo is also a precious old photo left by a rich and noble family, and we can see through their outfits that they are definitely not ordinary people.
This old photo is a group photo of a rich man and his seven wives in the late Qing Dynasty, and if you look closely, you will find that the feet of these women are the "three-inch golden lotus" in the "feudal etiquette", and this rich man with 7 wives is already an old man over fifty years old, but the concubine is still underage, which is really morally degenerate!
This photo looks like a loving couple, but everyone must know that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the feudal etiquette was the most vicious, there was such a woman who "sat on her husband's lap" to take pictures, which was extremely rare in that era, and it was easy to be chewed by neighbors and friends, subjected to unwarranted abuse, and even rumors.
However, these two people may have been influenced by advanced ideas, and it seems that they can no longer see the so-called "male superiority and female inferiority".
At first glance, I know that this photo is a very rich master, and there is a "nail cover" on his finger that looks like gold, and I don't know which rich family in the palace is the daughter.
But the woman was so gorgeous in the late Qing Dynasty that she actually dressed two children in clothes similar to those of the poor to take pictures, which looked like she had randomly found two children on the side of the road to act as "decorations", but the poor at that time were not such a "situation", and fate was like "decorations"!
The above photo is a Chinese living in the French Concession, it seems that the child's expression is reluctant to take this photo, her expression is not shy but "fear", and even more ironic is that the big red French next to it is "Happy New Year"!
Living in the French Concession, watching all kinds of foreigners come and go all day long, living in a colonized place, can this be "Happy New Year"?
This photo is also suspected of being posed. However, it truly reflects the helplessness of the Qing Dynasty at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the helplessness of the people at the mercy of the Qing Dynasty.
Speaking of the helplessness of the most low-level people at the end of the Qing Dynasty, we have to take a look at the following photos......
The "explicit" helplessness of the majority of the people at the end of the Qing Dynasty
At first glance in this photo, you can see the deep helplessness and embarrassment of the protagonist in the photo, he is dressed like a beggar, but such a person is not a beggar, in the vast majority of areas in the late Qing Dynasty are such poor people who are not clothed, they are oppressed by the landlords, oppressed by the bureaucracy, living in an impermeable world, even begging on the street to be expelled by the police, too depressing and suffocating!
This man is a beggar on the side of the road, and you can see that his outfit is out of place with those behind him, and he is constantly knocking on the wooden fish in his hands, is he praying for the blessing of people on the roadside, and wants to receive alms?
This person is much better dressed than the person above, it seems that this kind of person who still has the blessing of "magic weapon" can even ask for a lot of food!
And the big guy in the late Qing Dynasty has long been accustomed to this kind of street begging for food, selling children, and even "killing heads", because everyone is the one who eats "human blood steamed buns" in feudal etiquette.
This photo is a cage in the late Qing Dynasty, such a person is already doomed to death, and you can see that the surroundings are full of people who are watching the excitement, their expressions are numb, and they have long been accustomed to this.
You can see that the attic is full of people watching the excitement.
The person in this photo has a pipe in his mouth and a wooden umbrella, but it is already in tatters, and a tattered umbrella and worn clothes reflect the real state of life in the late Qing Dynasty.
After all, such a broken umbrella can only be thrown into the trash now!
This photo is a fortune-telling booth, people in the late Qing Dynasty can not see the source of those hopes, in the semi-colonial and semi-feudal people's south can only meet some of their spiritual needs through feudal superstition, this kind of small stall, even if many dignitaries listen to the fortune-telling of this person "flicker", have to take out countless "silver", not to mention the poor!
This man in a belly pocket looks not young, full of fat, and seems to be holding some playthings in his hands, it should be a cricket or something, the appearance of a proper landlord's stupid son, and behind him is full of people who are curious about cameras.
This is a photo taken by a foreigner who brought a "rare object" to a village, and if you look carefully at the photo there is a foreigner's dog in the middle of the photo, these rare objects have attracted a lot of people in the village to come to watch, I don't know what the most conspicuous "trumpet-shaped" thing in the photo is called?
epilogue
The above are precious old photos of the late Qing Dynasty, you can see that behind each of these old photos there is a feeling of "barren and embarrassed" in the late Qing Dynasty, and then look at today's TV series with the background of the late Qing Dynasty, all of them are "brocade clothes", and the people's clothes are brand new, which simply ignores us as audiences!
We must face up to history, take history as a mirror, learn lessons from those difficult days, cherish the present life, and forge ahead!