What did people look like more than 100 years ago? What was life like more than 100 years ago? Presumably, many netizens will be curious. There are descriptions of past societies in history books, but the information revealed by the text is not so intuitive. Xiaobian sorted out a group of old photos of the late Qing Dynasty to help everyone understand history from another perspective and feel the details of history.
Qianmen Street in Beijing after the Gengzi Incident.
Qianmen Street was bustling with traffic and commerce, but it was burned into a ruin by the Boxers in 1900. We can see from the photo that the Qianmen Arrow Tower has collapsed, and the shops on the left side of the street have completely fallen into rubble, and the whole picture looks devastated. However, life had to go on, with vendors setting up stalls on rubble piles and pedestrians on the streets.
The Shanghai Concession Will Trial Office.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty and the Shanghai Concession authorities established a public trial office and appointed triage judges to hear cases related to the Chinese in the concession. If the case involves foreigners or Chinese servants employed by foreigners, the foreign consul shall participate in the triage or observe the trial; in purely Chinese cases, the Qing Dynasty magistrate shall judge it alone. The official sitting in the hall in the photo is Guan Yuzhi, an inquisitor appointed by Yuan Shuxun of the Shanghai Daotai.
Bounce cotton.
This kind of pure hand-play cotton scene, no one has seen it now, right? The cotton tool in the man's hand is a large wooden bow, with cow tendon as the string, and the wooden stick is frequently hit by the string, so that the cotton gradually loosens, so that it is suitable for making quilts and cotton clothes. This trade has existed since the Yuan Dynasty, until it was replaced by machinery in recent years.
Qinglou woman and turtle slave.
"Turtle slave" is a contemptuous name for men who do chores in the Qinglou. During the Qing Dynasty, the Qinglou woman with her small feet was summoned to accompany the guests, so she asked The Turtle Slave to drive her to the designated place. This was commonplace in the old days, and passers-by in the photo did not pay special attention to these two people.
A small vendor selling fruits and vegetables.
Merchants sell vegetables and fruits, and the sound of shouting echoes in the streets and alleys, which is the landscape of life in the cities and villages of the Qing Dynasty. The old Beijing greenseller's shouting is clear and melodious, and the words in his mouth are like this: "Coriander uh spicy green pepper eggplant lentil hard garlic seedlings, cucumber white flower root er, sell lentil tomato hanging cream shelf winter melon uh, Rao coriander boo leek ya, sell chestnut flavor noodle old wo gua er, sell horse lined leek, sell radish carrot bian radish toon, shabu'er leek ..."
Yamen, Chenggu County, Shaanxi.
The photo records the archway and lobby of the prefectural court, which does not look grand. Wooden cages on both sides of the archway were used to imprison prisoners. Few Qing Dynasty counties have survived today, and this photograph is particularly precious.
An old man who smokes opium.
Opium deeply poisoned the body of the late Qing Dynasty and made the decaying society even more impoverished and weak. This photo intuitively recreates the scene of the "addict" smoking opium, his eyes are sluggish and dazed, and he looks lost and depressed.
Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, inspected the Beijing-Hankou Railway.
Surrounded by servants and subordinates, Zhang Zhidong, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, looked imposing and majestic, unlike the dying old man (who was about 70 years old at the time). His beard was long and on his chest, and he was known as the "Hairdresser". The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty says that he was "short-bodied, with huge hair, a neat and neat demeanor", short stature, a long beard, and an extraordinary demeanor.
Caught thief.
His clothes were tattered and without a complete piece of cloth, it was not difficult to infer that he was in a state of starvation and freezing. He stole property, perhaps just to survive.
Folk traditional industry - pedicure.
Pedicure is to solve a variety of ailments on the feet, such as corns, incarcerated nails, calluses, etc. China's pedicures have developed from the past street and park pedicures to pedicures, and there are some large-scale chain pedicure shops.