Foreign photographer

Zhou Shouchang, a sinologist in the Qing Dynasty, said in "Siyitang Rizha" that in 1846, he met a man named? Camera? Something. The camera mentioned here is a video camera. Historians infer that cameras appeared at least in 1846. It is said that Jules, a Frenchman who works in the customs. Etienne brought it. We can only know the ancient history of China from the portraits, but in the Qing Dynasty, thanks to the camera, we can finally know what China people were like a hundred years ago from these old photos. These are all old photos of the Qing Dynasty collected by foreigners. Let's have a look.

This is China's last queen Wanrong and her English teacher Isabel? Ingram and Pu Yi's English teacher, Johnston. Wan Rong studied in an American missionary school in Tianjin at the age of seven, and her father Rong Yuan asked her English teacher to tutor her English. Wanrong likes to eat western food and drink foreign wine, listen to foreign jazz and play with cameras because of the westernization of English.

1922, Wanrong and Puyi got married, and on the third day after their marriage, they met envoys from various countries. She can talk to everyone in fluent English by herself, and all the major foreign media praised her in the newspaper. Wanrong and Puyi clearly live in the palace, but they also write letters to express their confession, and they are written in English. Wanrong's English name is "Elizabeth" and Puyi's English name is? Henry. .

In the late Qing dynasty, most people did not have graceful pampering, and they had to run for a living and raise their children. The man above is only 1.5 meters visually. The little man shouldered the burden of a family, but the burden bent his back. In the late Qing Dynasty, not only officials were corrupt, but foreigners also oppressed the people of China. Many people, like him, are overwhelmed by the burden of life.

And this man has suffered the same hardships in his life. He is a little better than the people above. At least he opened a small shop and lived by craft. He is worried that his clothes will get dirty at work. If the surrounding environment is not old, he now looks a lot like the owner of the shop earlier. I don't know what he is looking at when he looks to the right. Maybe it's because the business is deserted. He's looking to see if any diners patronize his business and let him earn more money to go home.

This big black cow is also working hard for her next meal. In ancient times, it was not allowed to kill cattle at will. There were regulations in the Western Zhou Dynasty? Governors don't kill cows for no reason? It is difficult for Emperor Zhou to eat delicious beef. The reason is that cattle are very important wartime materials. Besides being helpful to agriculture, a cow can also fight with different parts of its body. It can help people transport combat tools. Cowhide is suitable for making wear-resistant boots and armor. Beef tendon is used to make bow and arrow strings, and beef bone can also be used as bow and arrow material when it is boiled into glue.

In ancient times, killing cattle was punishable. Killing cattle in the Han Dynasty was sentenced to death, and killing cattle in the Northern Song Dynasty was imprisoned for one and a half years. The Qing Dynasty's "Qing Law" stipulates? Those who kill their own cattle and horses privately get a hundred sticks? "Water Margin" Liangshan heroes can easily handle a few kilograms of cooked beef. They should eat cows that died of old age and disease. This is possible, but the bones and skins of cattle should be handed over to the government as raw materials for wartime tools.

This is an angry photo. 1840 The first opium war broke out in China, and many people in China got into bad habits. Both of them look like poor people, but they are still lying in bed smoking a cigarette rod, and their thin ribs are obviously in front of people, just like Lu Xun said: Angry is indisputable, sad is indisputable. ? How do you feel after reading the above photos?