Winter always gives people a sense of heaviness, it seems that there are endless humanistic stories, endless historical vicissitudes, all things are collected into silence, as if listening to the voice from a long time, this winter, let us continue to open the "Hundred Years of Traces", look for the past and visit the present, and explore the historical traces of the Beijing Zoo ......
The predecessor of Beijing Zoo was the Qing Agricultural Experimental Field.
It is not only the earliest zoo in China.
It was also the emerging park in Beijing at that time.
The originator of the photo check-in place.
Let's decipher the memories of the era.
Open the past of the dust.
In 1908, the Qing Agricultural Experimental Field was just opened, and there were not only zoos, botanical gardens, sericulture halls, museums, teahouses, Chinese restaurants, cafes, Western restaurants, but also photo studios ......
Photography was introduced to Beijing in the mid-to-late 19th century, and was still fashionable in the early 20th century. The Qing Agricultural Experimental Field set up the first photo studio in the park, established different park photo modes in the past, and formulated park photo rules. Today, let's reveal the trendy past of taking photos and checking in at the Qing Agricultural Experimental Field.
The location of the Kagin Photo Studio is the current Flamingo Museum in the park. It is a three-bay building, there is a large courtyard outside the building, a high ceiling, many potted flowers, tables and chairs, the terrain is very high, you can enjoy the shade, you can also drink tea. Hang two dragon flags in the courtyard, and the colorful flags of 24 squares, vertically and horizontally obliquely support, form a cross shape, float in the courtyard, quite spectacular.
Suncheon Times praised it as "all the furnishings upstairs and downstairs are gorgeous, the scenery and lighting are also very good, and the scenery in the garden is even better...... can be selected everywhere."The pavilions and pavilions can be photographed everywhere, and it is really the first photographic attraction in Beijing."
According to the record of "Travels to the Jingshi Expo Park", Jingzhen Photo Studio requested a franchise in the park and proposed one-tenth as the public expense of the park. The technician is highly skilled, but very cheap. **The**Due to different sizes, the paper is divided into three gears.
On the first floor of the Jingzhen Photo Studio, a copy of the "Complete Map of the Agricultural Experimental Field" is displayed, which is divided into 24 scenes, and visitors can choose scenic spots according to their hobbies. The 24 views are: the main entrance of the venue, the office building, the zoo, the pine wind Luoyue Xuan, the Fengfeng Hall, the lotus pond, the Oriental Building, the Wanzi Building, the Grass Pavilion, the Guanjiaxuan, the Flower Cave, the Botanical Garden, the Bridge, the rockery, the Western Tea House (café), the Laiyuan Building, the Western Building (Changguan Building), the cherry blossoms, the Spring Hall, the sericulture museum, the museum building, the mulberry forest, the fruit tree, the grain wheat vegetable and vegetable field.
The shortcomings of all the photo studios in Beijing are fake scenes, even if there is a real scene, it is only limited to one place, and it must not be chosen by anyone. Only in this expo park, the pavilions and pavilions can be selected everywhere. This mode of filming used the park as a large photo base, and visitors could take photos with the scenery while visiting the park, which was very popular at the time.
Shooting rules. For ordinary visitors, it is not allowed to bring their own cameras into the agricultural test field, so if you want to take a commemorative photo, you can either go to the Jingzhen photo studio in the park to take pictures, or ask the photographer of the photo studio to take photos with you around the park. Due to the limitations of technology and photographic equipment, there were no independent photographers and official photographers in the late Qing Dynasty to the early years, and "the photo studio was basically the only candidate for the photography of powerful people, and even the shooting of major events". However, photo studios do not allow visitors to bring their own cameras into the park for fear of "stealing photos from others". At that time, it was stipulated that the park could be taken at will, but it was not allowed to take photos next to bridges and roads or in crowded places, and it was not allowed to take pictures of other tourists. The "Photography Regulations" also stipulates: "Photography is originally an elegant thing, fortunately, do not make a mocking attitude so as to make people laugh." ”
There are three albums of the image data of the agricultural experimental field, which are the album of "Jingshi Expo Park" and "The Agricultural Experimental Field of the Alcoholic Palace" printed in 1909 by Hiroshido in Japan. These precious photo albums restore the beautiful scenery that visitors in the venue could take pictures at will at that time.
It can be seen that a hundred years ago, the park had relevant rules formulated to guide visitors to visit the park in a civilized manner. Nowadays, in the Beijing Zoo, the park will still guide visitors to visit the park in a civilized manner, such as: do not use flash to shoot animals, do not depict on cultural relics and monuments, do not climb flowers and trees, etc., not only the inheritance of a hundred years of rules, but also a kind of development that keeps pace with the times, small details to promote great civilization, only from the little things, civilization can become a kind of city business card, a national image, a national spirit.
Come to Beijing Zoo to check in.
Follow the traces of history.
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