The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in the 5,000 years of Chinese civilization, and its rise and fall were recorded so that we can better understand history. Most of these ** were taken by foreigners, which not only showed the situation at the time, but also revealed the weakness of the Qing Dynasty.
Only by facing and understanding history squarely can we evaluate it fairly. It is a pity that the court drama in the TV series glorifies the Qing Dynasty too much. What's playing in the TV series now?
When will we be able to make a film that truly reflects the lives of the people of the Qing Dynasty?
This story made "Gao Qiqiang", who set up a fish stall to sell fish, deeply feel that the life of ordinary Chinese people is not easy, and can't help but wonder how they survive every day.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a little girl was washing clothes by the river, looking so helpless and pitiful. At that time, the child bride-in-law was young, only six or seven years old, but she took on the responsibility of the family early.
This is the helplessness of life, what parent wants to see their child become a child bride and endure such pain and suffering? Women in the old society had a low status and suffered a lot.
Yang Cuixi, one of the three famous prostitutes in the late Qing Dynasty, was known as the "female tanhua". Even now, she must be a beauty who captivates the country and the city. A famous prostitute, sure enough, lives up to its name.
In this world, there was a time when people valued small feet as beautiful. At that time, women from wealthy families had power to keep their small feet, while women from poor families had to toil barefoot in the fields and struggle to survive.
Today, 100 years later, we also have our own aesthetic standards, taking a slender body as beauty, and even forcing women to ** because of this, and even undergoing surgery to remove fat.
This is inhumane and deeply deplorable. I remembered when I was a child, the old lady with a small foot in my neighbor's house, who was already seventy or eighty years old at the time, and she often washed her feet in front of the house.
Seeing her feet, I deeply understood the saying: "A pair of small feet, a jar of tears". This was the tragedy of women in that era, and it is also a question that we should reflect on and change.
A Qing Dynasty father catches lice for his child, which makes people imagine the lifestyle and hygiene habits of that period. The large braids of Qing Dynasty men did look dirty, but it also reflected the neglect of personal hygiene in society at the time.
In the Qing Dynasty in modern film and television dramas, men and women are dressed brightly and without patches, although they look attractive, they are seriously detached from historical reality. The beauties in Manchu court dramas are actually often crooked melons and cracked dates, making it difficult for people to look at them directly.
The Eight Banners Green Battalion Army, the Qing Dynasty army stationed in Xiamen, faced backwardness in many aspects such as clothing, hairstyles and thoughts. The sleeves are even longer than the trousers, and there are no purses on the clothes, so everything has to be put in the sleeves.
To this day, the saying that "there is a grocery store in the sleeve" is still widely spread.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the national strength declined and the people's livelihood withered. The standard of living is low, and there is not enough food and clothing to sustain themselves, let alone enough combat power to fight against foreign enemies.
At that time, the people were pale and lifeless, and were easily divided by the Eight-Nation Alliance. In such a situation, the demise of the Qing Dynasty seemed inevitable.
In the harem of the Qing Dynasty, the daily life of the concubines was a pastime based on playing cards and entertainment. Looking at the seemingly easy life of these concubines, it may make people feel envious.
However, if people no longer worry about food and clothing, then this seemingly enjoyable life will make people feel depressed. Because the environment is different, the mentality and pursuit will also change.
Tired of watching the gorgeous scenes and delicacies of court dramas? In fact, the real Qing Dynasty harem is not like this. According to historical records such as the "Notes on the Living of the Internal Affairs Office" and the "Qing Huidian", the living treatment of the harem concubines was not equal, and there were strict regulations on the distribution of materials, and they could only eat 2 taels of meat per day.
Let's uncover the lives of real Qing court concubines and see how they lived in such an environment.
Sitting on the chair on the left is the biological mother of Emperor Guangxu and the sister of the Empress Dowager Cixi. Sitting on the kang on the right is Liu Jiashi, the grandmother of Emperor Puyi.