The smell of wine and meat in the rich and noble houses fills the noses, but there are the bones of hungry people who have frozen to death on the streets. Under the twisted feudal rule, the magnates indulged in a life of drunkenness, enjoying the hard work of others with peace of mind, and squandering their hard-earned money and food and wine at will.
They were indifferent, and there was a different world beyond the walls of their homes, where the scene was very different. Poor people, dressed in tattered clothes, shivered in the corners of the streets.
Thin fingers, clinging to a little food, that may be their hope of survival.
When the countless weak sorrows gradually converge, when the gap between lives gradually widens, the bell of the end of a dynasty will continue to resound. The Qing Dynasty, the dynasty that put an end to the long feudal era, gradually declined in such chaos.
The rich enjoy life to the fullest, while the world is experiencing the industrial revolution, with a new look and a faster speed, to meet new challenges, and carry out earth-shaking changes.
However, in the far east, the land that gave birth to a splendid civilization missed the best opportunity to join the trend because of the narrowness of the rulers.
The Qing rulers were blindly conservative, unwilling to accept any change, closing their eyes and ears, immersed in the achievements of the past, and self-righteously believing that the country was extremely powerful. They brutally cut off contact with the outside world and locked the gates of the country tightly.
Arrogance and the pursuit of comfort are like two greedy devils, constantly eroding the reason and courage of the ruling class. Some wealthy people only care about their own luxurious life, indifferent to the future of the country, and even when the foreign powers opened China by force, wars broke out, and the people wailed in pain, they remained indifferent and still indulged in pleasure.
In feudal society, travel is often a response, taking a carriage or sedan chair to show status. Although they don't need to walk and can get anywhere they want with the help of a carriage or sedan chair, it also means that they often need five or six sedan chair drivers behind them day and night, ready to deal with all kinds of emergencies.
And some rich idlers, in order to satisfy their own desires, spend money, not only harming their own health, but also creating many unstable factors for the development of the country.
Looking at the past, opium was an indelible scar in modern China. This kind of high-cost drug can only be enjoyed by families with strong financial resources for a long time.
In the dimly lit room, many people dressed in splendid costumes, with empty eyes, holding cigarette sticks in their hands, occasionally spewed smoke from their mouths, immersing themselves in this fleeting pleasure.
This group of people enjoys the comfortable life of dedicated service, but they lack the motivation to struggle and the feelings of worrying about the country and the people. They were dressed in aristocratic costumes, a luxury that was reflected in travel and entertainment, and even more so in women.
In the feudal era, women lacked a stage to express their self-worth, so they could only study their diet, daily life and clothing in a small courtyard. The costumes of the Qing Dynasty occupy an important position in the history of Chinese clothing, and before its entry into the customs, traditional Chinese costumes pursued the abstract beauty of wide robes and large sleeves.
The petite body and snow-white skin are like an ethereal landscape painting, and a few brushstrokes make people think about it. The Manchus of the Qing Dynasty, as nomadic people, preferred simple and practical clothing that was easy to move.
The Manchu woman wears a flag costume with delicate patterns printed on it, and steps on the bottom of the flower pot under her feet, directly showing her beauty. For the aristocratic ladies in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, they only need to take care of them carefully to show their faces.
Wearing the most fashionable clothes, sitting quietly in the garden, drinking tea and chatting with friends, this is their life.
In the beautiful landscape, the woman sitting in it is even more dazzling. However, they may not realize that these ostensibly quiet years are based on the suffering of countless people who do not have enough to eat and wear.
The beauty of upper-class women is like a blade that flashes with cold light, cutting through the self-righteous illusions of the last years of the Qing Dynasty bit by bit, revealing the most real ugliness.
The state is made up of the people, and the lives of ordinary people are like a clear mirror, clearly reflecting the true face of society. In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, ordinary people seemed to be put in a furnace and struggled.
On the edge of the city and in the corners of the countryside, people can only build simple mud huts to shelter from the wind and rain. Day after day, many people have only one piece of clothing, which is sewn and patched.
Styles and patterns are unattainable dreams for ordinary people, and even a simple set of coarse cloth clothes has become a luxury. In the streets and alleys, vendors and craftsmen are constantly on their backs, and the pressure of life forces them to run around, carrying goods to the ends of the world.
The wind and rain, the baptism of the four seasons sharpened the bodies of the vendors and bent their backs. They don't lie in bed like rich boys, indulging in opium; It is not as carefully maintained as aristocratic women, and the ten fingers are not stained with the delicacy of the spring water.
Their ** is like a rough stone in the wilderness, dark and wrinkled, without luster or delicate. Every wrinkle on the face of the vendor is a trace of life, telling the hardships and difficulties of life.
Despite their wandering, business remains deserted. Everyone is running for survival, living on a budget, and there is no extra money to buy those gorgeous handicrafts.
These traders can only keep moving forward, with a glimmer of hope that their living conditions will be improved in the future. The most heart-wrenching are the beggars who have left their homes and can only beg on the streets.
They are constantly begging for food from passers-by, and their dirty faces are full of longing for survival and numbness to life. For them, living one more day is a gift.
In general, there were many reasons for the fall of the Qing Dynasty, but the rulers had no regard for the lives and deaths of ordinary people. The life of the powerful is just to compare and kill their fighting spirit, which fully shows the corruption and incompetence of the Qing **.
A regime that ignores the rights and interests of the people will eventually lose popular support. The inability to provide basic livelihood security for the population means the end of the old era. Today's China has gone through a hundred years, and we live in a rich and prosperous society.
No longer worry about unwarranted oppression, no longer afraid of the hardships of life. Everyone is free to pursue a better self, and the motherland is always behind us, which is our strongest support.