Countless big and small people come and go on the stage of history, or for a while or obscure, and finally only a few pieces of history are left by chance. Xiaobian picked up some "fragments" from more than 100 years ago - old photos of the late Qing Dynasty, and we came together to understand the details of life in that era.
4 people drinking.
The woman held the book and pretended, and the two men made the same gesture, somehow. There was a tall glass glass on the table, which should have been poured with foreign wine. Of course, these 4 people are posing for a photo, creating a drinking atmosphere, and those wines are just props for the photo studio and will not let them drink.
casino.
A group of gamblers stared intently at the game, with stacks of copper coins on the table, and if the win or loss was larger, there was a place next to the exchange of silver and silver. The walls are plastered with auspicious words encouraging gamblers, "killing three parties" means that one of the tables is particularly powerful, and the other three parties have no ability to fight back; "green ants fly in" and "bai bi comes in" have similar meanings, referring to the fact that the lost money can fly back on its own, and even make money continuously.
tailor.
Tailoring, also known as seamstresses, seamstresses, garment workers, seamstresses, garment makers, etc. in ancient times, is an ancient profession with thousands of years of history.
Young woman.
Holding a folding fan, she sits in an elaborately arranged studio, highlighting her image as a lady. The Slovaks were picturesque, but those little feet hurt her and also affected her sense of beauty.
Ningbo women.
This woman's "sailing bun" is particularly eye-catching. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, the "sailing bun" was particularly popular among women along the southeast coast, there were no bangs on the forehead, and all the hair was combed into a semi-curved bun behind the head, clipped with clips, resembling a raised sail, hence the name. In general, married women comb the "sailing bun" to express their spiritual sustenance for their relatives who go to sea and pray for peace.
Rich family in Ningbo.
The 3 adult men and 4 adult women in the photo are all wearing supplementary clothes, and it is clear that they belong to the eunuch family. Sitting in the middle is the old mother, and the servant also appears in the camera with the doll.
A peasant in a cloak.
It is made of straw and is also made of palm leaves. Used in conjunction with a bucket hat, it can shelter from rain. Compared with umbrellas, the coat not only has a good effect of avoiding the rain, but also can free two hands without delaying the work, and farmers and fishermen like to wear it. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, a proverb was popular in the south: "The emperor of the upper wind, the lower wind pass, no cloak, no going out." "It shows that at that time, people generally used cloaks to cover the rain.
Zhang Zhidong attended the ceremony, and his subordinates held umbrellas.
On April 1, 1906, the Beijing-Hankou Railway was opened to traffic, and Zhang Zhidong, who was then the Governor of Huguang, participated in the acceptance work and attended the opening ceremony. Construction of the Beijing-Hankou Railway began in 1898, and because the imperial court could not allocate the funds needed for the construction of the road, it had to borrow 4.5 million pounds from Belgium to build it. The total number of trunk and branch lines is 1311.4 km. After the opening of the train, the sovereignty of the Beijing-Hankou Railway was effectively controlled by Belgium.
Group photo of Fuzhou Post Office staff.
In 1896, the Qing Dynasty began to establish a modern postal business, and then various localities successively abolished post stations and established post offices. The post office has referred to the advanced Western model in terms of institutional setup and operation and management, which is more efficient and has a wider business scope than traditional stations. The front row of the photo is the post office manager, and the back two rows are the postman.
The minister sitting on a palanquin.
The scene of the minister's travel was very large, front and back, and there were 8 people in the car driver alone. According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, there were 4 sedans when the ministers of three pins or above were in Beijing, 8 were sedans when they left Beijing, and 8 were governors and inspectors of various provinces. We judge the minister's rank to be at least three. The palanquin he was riding in was a cool palanquin, without a drapery, completely open-air, and allowed to bask in the sun in winter.