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The Qing Dynasty is a dynasty that cannot be avoided in history, and the things that happened during this period are good and bad, and when it comes to the Qing Dynasty, people's evaluation is also more polarized, with the praise of the prosperous era and the disgust of the turbulent situation, and most of the derogatory meanings come from the late Qing Dynasty.
It is said that the decline of an era is a precursor, but the Qing Dynasty in the late Qing Dynasty was like a cliff fall, and the entry of opium also turned the Qing Dynasty into a depression and fragile situation.
Today, let's go into the late Qing Dynasty and take a look at the people of that era and the things they experienced.
Speaking of the late Qing Dynasty, an inseparable topic is the Qinglou, although there are Qinglou in every dynasty, but the late Qing Dynasty is the most, and there are even many Qinglou openly selling opium, attracting many men to go.
After all, the coexistence of beauty and beauty in the illusion is a temptation that countless men cannot refuse.
The women in the Qinglou in the photo still show a charming posture in front of the camera, and the woman sitting in the middle is even more disheveled.
In the feudal dynasty of the late Qing Dynasty, except for women like this in the Qinglou, there would be no other ladies like this.
Empress Dowager Cixi was the most reviled ruler of the Qing Dynasty, and because of her extravagance and inaction, China stood still in history for a long time.
However, I have to say that Cixi was very good at playing during the control of the Qing Dynasty, and the photo shows her cosplaying with the big eunuch Li Lianying next to her.
In her later years, Cixi was very fond of photography, and she preferred the sense of speed of the camera to freeze the picture with a "bang" rather than the discomfort of painting requiring her to sit still for a long time.
In the late Qing Dynasty, almost all the clothes that could wear such long robes were very well-off, and they didn't have to do anything on weekdays, and almost all of them were superior to clothes to reach out for food and open their mouths, they only needed to maintain elegance every day, and then chant poems all day long, and they would not consider the rest of the things, let alone worry about not being able to eat.
The last emperor and empress, Pu Yi had already shaved his hair at this time, and he was more fond of this kind of impact of breaking the shackles after receiving a Western education.
And Wanrong, who has also received Western education, has the wildness of the West on the one hand, but has been imprisoned by the dynasty on the other, if the two of them are just ordinary people in this life, maybe Wanrong's life will really be as she wishes.
The two of them are discussing the contents of the book together, and looking at the proportions of the body, you may think that they are father and son, but in fact, this short man is the older brother who is sitting.
In the Qing Dynasty, the marriage of close relatives was more serious, and the children born in these families would die young, and even if they barely grew up, dwarfs would appear.
However, at that time, people did not consider it a genetic problem, but blindly thought that God did not open his eyes, and sometimes the children born by concubines were normal, but the children of the main lady were abnormal.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were many concubines who were wrongfully accused of hurting their wives' children, and were beaten to death or sunk in the pond, and feudal ideology killed people.
This is an archer in the late Qing Dynasty, at this time he was teaching others how to shoot arrows, it is not difficult to see from the clear joints of his palms, he also trains often on weekdays, and the posture of drawing the bow is definitely a veteran, but such a heroic posture is matched with his short stature, and there is always a feeling of being out of place.
The street market in the late Qing Dynasty, which is also a place where the lower class people often stayed in the late Qing Dynasty, where people would often chat together, and as long as they bought a bowl of tea or a meal, they could sit all day.
When recruiting people such as the dock, they will also give priority to this place to find out if there are idle people willing to do things.
In front of the Lama Temple, the people who are watching the "fighting ghosts", among them there is a woman with a flag head, every year at the end of the first month of the lunar calendar, the outside of the Lama Temple will be full of people, vying to see the scene of "fighting ghosts".
"Fighting ghosts" is a kind of religious music and dance, not fighting ghosts in the real sense, but just using the form of music and dance to sweep away the bad luck of the year and welcome the beauty of the new year.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the old man who was sitting in his field resting, his open clothes can show that he was already working very hot at this time, and after a day of hard work in the crops, it was also very satisfying to sit down and smoke a bag of cigarettes.
In the late Qing Dynasty, when some families could not eat enough, it was very important to be able to have food, and sometimes it was not even necessary to protect the lives of their families.
The scene of Qing Dynasty officials preparing to go to court, do you still believe in those good-looking men in the Qing Dynasty court?
In fact, this is the real late Qing Dynasty, the clothes of the officials are all loose, some are still worn by the previous officials, and it is the norm to not fit, and most of the officials who can stay in the court are relatively old, and the younger ones are almost all in the barracks.
The couple who have just gotten married, both of them are very shy in the photo, and they also have a certain sense of distance.
In the late Qing Dynasty, marriage was not allowed to be decided by oneself, and parents said that whoever marries must obey, so at that time, many women and their husbands were respectful of each other, on the contrary, the relationship between concubines and husbands was more intimate.
A teacher with long nails, a teacher who can keep such long nails, must have a very high status in the late Qing Dynasty, and there is no need to do anything else except teach on weekdays.
However, it is worth noting that even if the nails of the left hand are very long, the right hand does not have nails, because it needs to hold a pen to write, so the right hand does not have nails anyway.
The prince who was riding a horse, although he was not handsome, he was very fond of taking pictures like Cixi, even if it was like in the photo, he had to ask the photographer to take a picture of it.
His background is very powerful, he is the seventh son of Daoguang, the seventh brother of Emperor Xianfeng, the seventh uncle of Emperor Tongzhi, Guangxu's father, and Puyi's grandfather, but even so, he did not sit on the throne, and in the end he was only crowned a prince of alcohol.
The scene of Yuan Shikai's funeral was full of people, but few of them really went to send the spirit, but they went with a mocking attitude.
However, Yuan Shikai's funeral was very grand, not only did the whole country fly the flag at half-mast to mourn, stop entertainment activities for a whole day, even schools were suspended, and civil and military officials stopped gathering and feasting for 27 days, and they definitely did not lose to the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu in terms of specifications.
In a private school in the late Qing Dynasty, when he got out of school, Mr. Teaching was sitting on his side, accepting thanks and goodbye from the students.
At that time, the students had to bow to the teacher before they could leave the classroom, otherwise they would not want to enter the school again the next day, and even the young children would have respect for teachers carved into their bones.
An official was preparing to go to a banquet for his colleagues, and it was evident from the carriage he was riding in that the carriages of the Qing Dynasty were not always wide enough to seat several people.
On the contrary, most of them are so narrow in the photo, basically only one person can sit down, and the whole person can't bend and stretch at will, but there are some grievances.
At that time, according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, officials above the third rank could have attendants and attendants when traveling, and according to the banquet customs of the Qing Dynasty.
In addition to informing and preparing invitations in advance for the host family to invite guests, on the day of the banquet, they should also send a servant to the guest's home with an invitation card to urge them once, if the guest has not been to the house, the servant will lead the way to follow along.
The first generation of girls' schools in the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty has always been oppressed by feudal ideology, and women are virtuous if they are not talented, and the idea of foot binding is also rooted in their hearts.
Therefore, the first thing the girls' school does is to ask them not to bind their feet, and when they come to the school, they must untie their feet and oppose foot binding, and the second thing is to learn to read and write, breaking the old idea that women are virtuous if they are not talented.
In the late Qing Dynasty, two foreigners were competing with officials of the Qing court for height, because in their eyes, the decline of the Qing Dynasty was because they were too short, so there was already a big difference in strength and height.
But it can be seen from the photos of the competition that there was no shortage of taller men in the Qing Dynasty, and judging from the facial state of the two men, their physique was not bad, so it once again proved that development is the last word, and backward weapons will lead to failure.
The man who is taking pictures with the female relatives of the family in the photo, I don't know if there are any attentive netizens who have found out where the man is, because of the lighting and the angle of shooting, the man is integrated with the rockery behind, and because he is wearing white clothes, he almost didn't see that there was a person on the rockery.
In the late Qing Dynasty, only the concubines with relatively high status could sit with their wives and chat and drink tea, while the concubines with low status could only stand aside like maids, waiting for their food and daily life.
And the maid with a low status will also face the risk of being sold at any time, compared to those who have concubine documents, they are more like duckweed.
The faces of these three eunuchs are better than many women, white flesh, and they look very pleasing to the eye, and such eunuchs generally serve in places like Yangxin Hall or Changchun Palace, and they are the eunuch Gao Shun, the leader of the eight products, the eunuch Wang Sanyuan, and the eunuch Zhang Xi.
The late Qing Dynasty always gave people a sense of decay and numbness, and the late Qing Dynasty was shattered because of political corruption and the cowardice and ignorance of the dynasty, and the late Qing Dynasty was spurned by later generations for many years.
In reality, however, the state of the late Qing Dynasty was more like a period of imminent decline of a dynasty and the coming of a new era.
Most of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were very diligent, for example, Kangxi laid a solid foundation for the Qing Dynasty, Yongzheng was overtired, and Jiaqing was mediocre but also very hard-working, but in the later period, he was unable to turn the tide.
The history of the Qing Dynasty is also due to the ups and downs that it will be paid attention to by future generations, but this is also the charm of a dynasty.