A piece of **, a piece of history.
The late Qing Dynasty left a lot of old **, which can let us see the state of Chinese society more than 100 years ago.
Today I will continue to take you to see these precious historical elders, including the small-footed ladies of the late Qing Dynasty, the people of the late Qing Dynasty, and so on.
This is the late Qing Dynasty three foot-bound ladies sitting together to take pictures.
Foot binding is an ancient Chinese Xi. It is a cloth that wraps a woman's feet tightly to make them deformed. Generally female, from.
From the age of four or five, the foot binding begins, until the adult skeleton is finalized and the cloth belt is untied, and there are also lifelong entanglements.
There are many theories about the beginning of foot binding, such as Xia Yu, Shang Dynasty, Spring and Autumn Warring States, Sui, Five Dynasties, and Song Dynasty. According to scholar Gao Hongxing's professional work "The History of Foot Binding", foot binding began in the late Northern Song Dynasty and arose in the Southern Song Dynasty. The foot binding of the Yuan Dynasty continued to develop in the direction of slenderness.
During the Ming and Qing dynasties, foot binding entered its heyday. The trend of foot binding has spread to women from all walks of life, whether rich or poor, they all bind their feet, but there are not a few who do not bind their feet.
Tibetan aristocracy in Lanzhou, Gansu Province in the late Qing Dynasty.
In 1924, Yongding Gate in old Beijing.
In the Jianghu Langzhong on the streets of the late Qing Dynasty, animal bones were used to boil medicine.
Late Qing Dynasty dressed flag man woman.
Market view of Central, Hong Kong Island, 1946.
In 1901, camel caravans outside Beijing came from Shanxi or Inner Mongolia.
Beijing's Dashilar in the late Qing Dynasty. You can also see the triangular yellow dragon flag of the Qing Dynasty from **. It was a flag used at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but it was not an official national flag, and the official flag of the Qing Dynasty was four-cornered.
In 1862, the Qing Dynasty suffered a loss without a national flag. The Qing army had a brawl between Qing and British sailors in the waters of the Yangtze River in Hubei. In the course of the negotiations, the British, who took advantage of the situation, insisted that the ship did not carry the national flag, did not know that it was a Qing Dynasty warship, and refused to take responsibility. The incident was reported to Prince Gong, and he began to think about formulating a flag.
Yi informed Zeng Guofan, then governor of Liangjiang, of this suggestion by letter. After Zeng Guofan received the letter, he was very happy, because Yi said what he thought in his heart. Considering that yellow was the exclusive color of the royal family, and the dragon was a symbol of imperial power, the cautious and steady Zeng Guofan was afraid of violating the imperial power, so he suggested that the dragon flag be designed as a triangle. On October 17, 1862, the Qing court approved the recital of the Prime Minister Yamen.
On December 3, 1872, the "Declaration" published a description of the triangular Yellow Dragon Banner: Beijing Premier Yamen sent a note to the Western States**, saying that the new flag of the Qing Dynasty was like a triangle, the color was yellow, and the dragon was painted in blue. All ships made by the Fuzhou and Shanghai Artillery Bureaus and river patrol ships at various passes have built this flag to mark their understanding. However, this triangular yellow dragon flag is only called the "Qing national flag", and when it was used, "it was used for hiring ships to catch thieves, and it was not explicitly designated as the national flag of 10,000 years".
In 1888, during diplomatic activities such as negotiations, signing, trade, and exchange of diplomatic personnel with Western powers, Li Hongzhang saw that the Western countries solemnly hoisted their national flags, while the Qing Kingdom fell into the embarrassment of having no flags to hang, and deeply felt that he had lost his "prestige".
So he played the Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi appointed Li Hongzhang to be in charge of designing the pattern. After many solicitations and screenings, Li Hongzhang submitted a variety of schemes such as the Bagua Flag, the Yellow Dragon Flag, the Qilin Flag, and the Tiger and Leopard Flag for the Empress Dowager Cixi to choose, and finally decided to use the Yellow Dragon Flag as the national flag of the Qing Dynasty and designed it as the four-horned dragon flag.
On January 10, 1912, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, and the Yellow Dragon Banner also "died", ending its mission.
A member of the Boxers captured by the U.S. Sixth Cavalry Division in Tianjin, 1901.
Soldiers of the Mukden Patrol Battalion.
The capital flood incident in the 19th year of Guangxu (1893).
According to the "declaration", it is recorded: "The water depth of the flat land ranges from a few feet to more than a zhang, the streets and alleys of all sizes become canals, cars and horses cannot come and go, and the shops are poured into the water, ranging from seven to eight feet deep." The water in the Taiping River in Erlongkeng, Xicheng is higher than the eaves, everything is drifting, the houses are collapsing, the people are drowned, almost everywhere, and even the city gate is blocked by water. ”
Nearly 500 houses collapsed on the ground in Baqi in the city, and 4 people diedMore than 1,000 houses collapsed in the flag camp outside the city, and 9 people died.