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Anyone who knows history knows that the corruption and unbearable nature of the late Qing government is well-known in history, and in the face of Western invaders, the court's advisers blindly chose to protect themselves, preferring to let them insult the people and introduce opium, which destroyed the foundation of the country, without any intention of resisting.
The lives of ordinary people are also extremely difficult, and the gap between the rich and the poor is even more significant, but even so, the hard-working people who are already living a difficult life have to bear the same heavy taxes as the rich, and the people are struggling to make a living.
Today, let's walk into the late Qing Dynasty together, take a look at these real old photos of the late Qing Dynasty, and do you have a clearer understanding of the late Qing Dynasty after reading it?
The group photo of the wives and concubines in the families of the rich and noble, in the Qing Dynasty, the system of respect and inferiority was very strict, and the concubines with relatively low status were actually similar to the servants.
Of the two people sitting in the photo, the one looking at the camera is the wife, and the one sitting reclining is the concubine, and she can't sit and show her whole face without the permission of the wife.
In the late Qing Dynasty, this kind of sedan chair was very common, and the situation in some people's homes was in the middle, and it could not support them to hire a sedan chair driver at home, so there would be this kind of renting a sedan chair.
This situation is similar to our current taxis, which are all public properties, and when the family needs to rent them, they will send a housekeeper to hire them, and the general employment time is 1-3 days.
The lives of the rich and the poor in the late Qing Dynasty were simply very different, just like the rich and noble sons who carried birdcages in their hands when they went out every day, and playing and watching was their daily life.
And the poor go out with hoes and other tools to support their families, and they are basically working hard every day, and they dare not think about the luxurious life of the rich and noble.
Seeing this group of men gathered together, one of them was still holding a thin stick, is it very curious about what they are doing, this is actually a form of entertainment in the late Qing Dynasty, fighting the grasshopper, it is also an activity that the men like very much, and the winning of the grasshopper can make the owner win a sum of money.
The official master in the countryside is being carried by several sedan chair drivers, if according to the regulations of the imperial court, the official master in the countryside should not be equipped with so many people, generally there can only be two sedan chair men.
However, due to the distance from the Forbidden City, the imperial court could not reach out for such a long time, so the officials and masters in these remote areas were no different from the Tu Emperor.
The daughter of a general's family, because the daughter of a military general at that time was generally looked down upon, because the military general was decisive in killing.
At that time, in the era of karma, many families were reluctant to marry the daughters of military generals, which also led to a status quo, the daughters of military generals were generally married to some medium-sized families, but fat and strong were the basic form of military generals' daughters.
The women who are sewing clothes on the streets, these women are specialized in sewing clothes, because their families are poor, and they have no spare money to rent shops, and they usually carry a basket with the needle and thread needed to sew clothes, and their business is very good, because the price is cheap and the workmanship is much better than that of the store.
The custom of wrapping small feet in the Qing Dynasty can be said to be harmful to others and oneself, obviously she is a woman, and she has experienced such suffering, and she understands the changes that wrapped her little feet will bring to herself in the future, but it is these women who have experienced it who wraps her children's small feet.
The picture is the scene where the grandmother at home is wrapping the girl's little feet, and the girl's numb face reveals a kind of helplessness, which she may have experienced many times.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the management of shops was still very strict, after all, they involved the issue of taxation, so in the late Qing Dynasty, the signboards of the shops needed to stand outside, and they were all unified rectangular, and there would be no other strange patterns, and the tax collectors could know at a glance which one did not pay taxes.
Don't think that ear picking is the crystallization of modern people's enjoyment, as early as the late Qing Dynasty, ear picking has begun to be popular, but the equipment at that time was relatively simple, and there was no lighting, generally in the sun is very good weather, these ear picking masters will come out, from the expression of the man's enjoyment, this master's ear picking technology is still very good.
These were porters who specialized in moving furniture, because at that time, there were no special transport vehicles, and moving or adding furniture relied on porters to move.
However, to do this kind of hard work, no matter how many times you run, the price is the same, and at the beginning you will negotiate how much money you will be able to move into, and if you increase the price halfway, the employer can also report to the official.
In the late Qing Dynasty, a stall in the middle of the square lang, the simple shanty was his medical officer, and the word "Hua Tuo" was also marked in front of the medical officer.
In the cloth shed, a Lang Zhong is treating a patient, as for whether it can be seen is unknown, these mobile Lang Zhong is like a small workshop, some of them are effective, and some of them are fatal.
The street market at Beijing's Daqianmen is very bustling with people, and the streets are lined with merchants.
There are also some self-employed people who pull their goods to sell to the owners of the shops, hoping that they will be able to collect their goods so that they can end their work early and return home early today.
However, although it looked prosperous at that time, there was no planning, and it was a chaotic scene.
Can you imagine that this is an inn in the late Qing Dynasty?
There is no ornate lobby, no green bricks are paved, the ground is still muddy, and when it rains, the whole ground will become muddy, and you will step on the mud.
In this hotel, there are also room numbers of East No. 4 and No. 5, which shows that this hotel is definitely relatively large in the local area.
When you see these paper horses and paper cars, will you still be curious, how do these sit people?
In fact, these are not for sitting, but after the death of the rich people, in order to make them live a richer life in another world, they will specially find people to tie paper people and paper horses, etc., and wait until the first seven o'clock to burn them to the deceased people, and such a size is generally only used by the rich and noble.
Seeing such a government official, do you feel that your cognition is incomplete? After all, this is not the case in Qing court dramas.
In fact, in the late Qing Dynasty, the allocation of the government was not manpowered, and there were no jailers who were specifically responsible for escorting prisoners.
Because of the introduction of opium, in the late Qing Dynasty, there were not a few people who died because of opium, and there were many originally happy families who died because of opium.
Even some originally wealthy families eventually sold their property because of opium smoking, and became people who were rejected by everyone.
The dress of these women is very suitable for the scenes we see in Qing court dramas every day, with flower pot bottom shoes, flag heads, silk cloth in hand, and hairpin flowers on their heads.
However, because of the Qing Dynasty's unique views on makeup, these women's faces were white, and the place where they met was not very prosperous, but looked a little shabby.
In the real Qing Palace, the palace maids are also free, and they can go out of the palace with their cards when they are on public leave or when they meet the needs of the concubines.
Therefore, in the late Qing Dynasty, there were many palace maids who would re-dry the tea that the emperor or the emperor had drunk and then sell it, firstly, because there was almost no tea outside the palace, and secondly, to discount the tea that the emperor had drunk, and the price would be higher.
No matter what period it was, there were more mobile vendors, and at that time, in order to support the family, even the wontons that needed to be boiled for soup were sold on the move, and a small cart could move its position at will, and there were no disposable bowls at that time, so they were all ceramic bowls.
If you pay an extra penny, you can take the bowl away, but if you don't, you need to sit at the stall and eat it like the man in the photo, and then return the bowl to the stall owner.
At that time, spoons and chopsticks were provided to customers according to their needs, but unlike today, in the past, there was no need to provide table and service charges.
Women who are cutting their hair in the late Qing Dynasty have been much better than in the past, and some women will go to the barber to take care of their hair during special periods, such as their birthdays or when there is a happy event at home.
Hair cuts are still relatively rare in normal times, and these barbers are also mobile, not necessarily when and where they appear.
In the late Qing Dynasty, these two prisoners were not too serious crimes, and they generally only needed to be detained for ten days and half a month before they could be released.
The two of them are handcuffed together, so there is no need to send someone to guard them, if you want to run, you have to run together, but running at the same time will cause them to collide together.
The weight of the shackles is very heavy, and if they fall after a collision, they may smash their necks and even die in serious cases, so they are generally not so stupid, they can survive after not running for a while, and if they are caught, they will add a bit of guilt.
Seeing these people on the ice, do you wonder what they are doing?
In fact, in the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi was very extravagant and wasteful, because she didn't like the heat of summer, so Cixi would order people to dig ice and store it when the lake froze in winter, and take it out for Cixi to cool off in summer.
In the early days, there were such double wheelbarrows, which were generally used by wealthy families when traveling alone, and the two rich sons in the photo sat on the car with umbrellas in their hands, and the handymen behind them could only be drenched in the rain, even if the eyes revealed dissatisfaction, but there was nothing to do, and they could only hope that they could be safe in this life.
Is there a world of difference between the real late Qing Dynasty and the imagination?
In fact, a dynasty has its own unique characteristics, but at the same time, it also has its unknown side, which may have been a normal picture at the time.
Under the rule of that feudal dynasty, there were still many people who were living in poverty more and more serious than we see now, so we should feel lucky to be born in such an era of stability and peace.