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In the more than 2,000 years of feudal rule on the mainland, there was the Tang Dynasty in the prehistoric era, the Ming Dynasty in which the territory was constantly expanded and the prestige of the continent was raised in the ocean, the happiness index of the people was super high, and the Song Dynasty was known for its openness and freedom.
The development of dynasties in history has always had a prosperous era, but also a decline, and none of them can escape the wheel of history, and the Qing Dynasty, as the last dynasty in the feudal history of the mainland, naturally cannot escape the fate from prosperity to decline, but it has its own unique significance.
The perennial seclusion of the country has suddenly suffered from the sudden opening of foreign countries, constantly involved in wars, the national power can not keep up, harsh taxes, the people at the bottom are miserable, and the people are miserable, but the princes and nobles can still live in luxury......
Today, let's use a set of photos from the end of the Qing Dynasty to walk into the real life of the late Qing Dynasty and understand the development of mainland history.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, due to the invasion of foreign powers, the mainland was forced to get involved in the war and signed many unequal treaties, and the amount of compensation was even more unimaginable.
Qing Dynasty porcelain is particularly distinctive, the man in the picture in order to pay the tax smoothly took out his cherished porcelain to sell, passers-by are obviously interested in it, want to buy but feel a little expensive, are trying to bargain with the man.
These treasures had to be sold by a few people during special periods, and if they could be kept in modern times, they would be worth a lot of money.
For thousands of years in the history of the mainland, due to the particularity of the small-scale peasant economy, the status of men has always been higher than that of women, and they are regarded as the "pillars" of the family.
Therefore, these girls will be sold to the land of fireworks by their families, and the picture is a group photo of the women in a fireworks willow alley, with numb expressions on their faces, and their obviously young faces show age-appropriate exhaustion, as if to convey to us that "this feudal society is indeed a cannibalistic society".
No matter what dynasty it is, anyone who violates the decrees issued by the government will inevitably be punished as he deserves, and no one will be spared.
The prisoners in the picture are clearly from the end of the Qing Dynasty, they have long braids, each of them handcuffed, as if they are afraid that they will escape on the way through the streets, followed by Indian patrols who follow closely and do not slack off at all.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the whole country was in a state of turmoil, and the people were overwhelmed by the burden of life, but the lives of the big officials of the government were not affected in the slightest.
In this family portrait of the official, the official and his wife sit at the table on either side, he looks imposing, and his wife has a serious face.
There are two children standing beside him, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and they are also very decently dressed, but the most striking thing is the tiger skin tablecloth on the table, which uses a whole tiger skin for the decoration of the table in their home, which can be described as a luxurious life.
As the foreign invaders at the end of the Qing Dynasty became aggressive and intensified the intensity of the war, the so-called "no winner when the gun sounds", and the people naturally suffered the most under the war.
These three were under the oppression of the war at that time, the government was serious, and they were desperate to come out to beg for a living.
However, due to the general hardship of the people's lives at that time, they did not have the strength to help these unfortunate people, and even if they begged, they could only starve and be satisfied.
If a person responsible for the fall of the Qing Dynasty must be found in the later period, then Cixi will not be able to escape the scolding of everyone.
During the critical period, when the treasury was empty, the tax collected by Cixi did not allow officials to use it to reform and update weapons and equipment, but to use it to celebrate their birthday, which was very extravagant.
It can also be seen from the scene of the Empress Dowager Cixi's trip that she went out alone, and there were more than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids who followed, which can be said to be inseparable from the service of others.
Whether it was a favored palace maid or a eunuch by her side, she was able to secretly collect some money from Cixi's hands.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, many people could no longer tolerate the government's inaction, and in order to resist foreign aggression and protect our homeland, the people organized the Boxer Rebellion against the Eight-Nation Alliance.
The Boxers won many victories in the early stage, sitting in the sun one by one, sitting on the ground when they were tired, and being shirtless and tanned, but they never gave up defending their homes and defending the country.
But the good times did not last long, this heroic Boxer Rebellion was finally captured by the Qing government and foreign powers, although defeated, it was still glorious, showing the indomitable determination of the Chinese people to protect their homes and defend the country.
At the end of the impoverished Qing Dynasty, everyone's life was already very difficult, but it seemed that seeing others suffering more could alleviate some of their own pain.
When the man who made the mistake was sentenced, he also needed to be escorted by officials to the street with a parade, so that the man's dignity was "swept away" again, while the crowd of onlookers surrounded the inner and outer three floors, as if waiting to see the excitement.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, as long as there was a profession that could make money, there were a steady stream of people to try, as long as it could make money, everyone was not afraid of hard work, and the water porter was one of the oldest occupations.
Groups of skinny men, carrying two buckets heavier than their own, went back and forth between the rugged mountain roads, one shirtless and under the scorching sun, and their shoulders might be worn out.
The hard work of picking up water is not for your own family to drink, but for selling it to the landlords, for the use of these landlords and rich families, this is the real hard-earned money!
Qing officials were practicing archery, and this is probably the reason why they lost wars with Western powers in the late Qing Dynasty.
At this time, Western countries had already experienced two industrial revolutions, and all kinds of weapons and equipment and ideological concepts were innovated, and they entered the era of hot weapons such as guns and artillery.
However, the army of the Qing Dynasty was deducted from Cixi's funds above, and had no money and mental strength to develop military strength, so it could only be in the era of cold weapons, and fought with swords and swords on the battlefield.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, even though the lives of the common people were almost unmaintainable, these officials still lived luxuriously and went out with great pomp.
The same is true of the official in the photo, wearing dark clothes, with the words "patrol" written on his clothes, walking on the street, followed by a group of small officials, and a person in front of the team is beating gongs and drums, reminding pedestrians to "officials travel, pay attention to avoidance".
Empress Dowager Cixi's life can be described as notoriously extravagant, and at the critical moment when the country was invaded, she could still enjoy herself with peace of mind by deducting military expenses.
In the face of the attack of foreigners, she only shamelessly expressed her willingness to "measure the strength of the country and please the foreigners", which can be described as spineless.
In the photo, Cixi is having fun, playing in Xiyuan during her 68th birthday, the word "Shou" behind her is very eye-catching, and the two palace maids are standing aside at any time.
One held a huge gourd in his hand, while the other held Cixi's favorite apple, waiting for Lafayette to give her orders.
With the fall of the Qing government, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Pu Yi, was also expelled from the Forbidden City, and all the customs of the Qing Dynasty were no longer followed.
The man in black and a pair of sunglasses in the center of the photo is Pu Yi, surrounded by his young siblings.
One by one, they no longer wore the traditional costumes of the Qing Dynasty, but changed into new and improved clothes, which seemed to mark the historical fate of the Qing Dynasty's feudal kingdoms that finally went into decline.
At the end of the Qing government, the princes and nobles did not seem to have been affected, but the lives of the people at the bottom were very sad, not only personal hygiene could not be guaranteed, but also regular meals could not be eaten.
These people have not bathed and washed their hair for a long time, and they have lice on their hair, and these people can only pull each other's hair and clean the lice on their hair because they have not been able to wash it in time.
In that era when there was not enough to eat, it was rare to be able to afford to go to school, and the students who had the opportunity to go to the highest university, Guozijian, had extraordinary knowledge and talent.
The four people in the picture are students who have just finished class in Guozijian, and the two people behind them who are dressed in ordinary clothes are their little maids, and the two in front exude the temperament of scholars, obviously about the same age as the little guys, but the lives they enjoy are very different.
Although Guozijian at that time already represented the highest institution of learning, the knowledge learned was still the same as it had been for many years, and from the perspective of the international situation at that time, other countries had entered the developed industrial age.
If the government had paid more attention to the education of its students and the acquisition of advanced knowledge, the Qing government would not have been in such a situation.
In the crumbling Qing regime, their last hope was a new army, hoping that these new forces, which had undergone some reforms, would save the country from fire and water.
The Qing army in the picture is still armed with backward weapons such as knives and swords, and the great powers have already used guns and artillery, and the Qing government has no power to return to the sky in the end of this war.
In the mirror of history, we have witnessed the rise and fall of many dynasties, but there is no doubt that the collapse of the Qing government has brought us the greatest impact.
Now we should take history as a mirror, not forget this history of humiliation, continue to develop the strength of the country, and strengthen ourselves to have the right to speak.
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