In 1862, we saw Huang Chengzhong, the "King of Dai" of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, who left a precious group photo with his subordinates. He sits on a chair covered with a tiger fur coat wearing a square scarf and sharp eyes. The two soldiers behind him held foreign guns in their left hands and held the command flag in their right hands, looking a little stiff and their expressions stiff. At the time, the camera was still a rarity, and this should have been their first attempt at taking pictures.
This **circulated abroad** is somewhat mysterious, and people are quite curious about the story behind it. The analysis of history buffs shows that Huang Chengzhong led the Taiping Army in Hangzhou, Jinhua, and Ningbo in Zhejiang at that time, and had brief contacts with foreigners. The photographer is said to be a preacher named George Hart. It is likely that this ** was taken at that time, so we can understand why this ** went abroad.
Many people may wonder, how to be sure that the man in ** is "Dai Wang" Huang Chengzhong?Actually, there is some basis. Huang Chengzhong was once a fierce general under Li Shixian, brave and fearless, and often charged ahead. In a confrontation with the Qing army, he was shot by a stray arrow, and his face was injured and disabled, and it can be seen from ** that he seems to be blind in one eye and has a knife wound in his chin, which is consistent with the historical records. If that wasn't enough to prove it, he also had a distinctive feature, namely a crippled left arm and an empty sleeve, which was also a well-known fact at the time.
After the defeat of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, most of the high-ranking people could not escape the fate of execution, but Huang Chengzhong ended relatively well. In 1866, after the fall of Zhangpu in Fujian, he escaped by luck and his whereabouts have been unknown ever since. It is rumored that in order to escape the pursuit of the Qing Dynasty, he returned to his hometown incognito and lived a comfortable life.