Guangxu 26-year-old photo: Empress Dowager Cixi escaped. Why did American machine guns enter the Forbidden City?

Camels near the corner of the city wall. In the 26th year of Guangxu, Gregorian calendar 1900, what happened in Qing dynasty? Gengzi changed? In August of that year, Eight-Nation Alliance went to Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu fled to xi 'an for refuge. During this period, foreign photographers photographed the face of the capital without the queen mother and emperor.

A wall covered with advertisements. Under the photographer's lens, the postwar capital was riddled with holes, and it was urgent to restore normal operation order. However, the allied forces committed many evils and crimes here, which made the situation in this ancient capital even worse. It was not until September 190 1 that the allied forces retreated after the signing of the treaty of Xin Chou.

The 9th Infantry Regiment of the United States entered the Forbidden City with Gatling machine guns. After Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, the Forbidden City was jointly occupied by the United States and Japan. The most majestic place in the Qing Dynasty, the forbidden area governing hundreds of millions of subjects, has foreigners coming here to show off. I wonder how Empress Dowager Cixi felt when she learned about it.

The criminal young man was sentenced to wear a flail for public display. At that time, the Qing government basically stopped working, and Eight-Nation Alliance maintained order in the capital. The prisoner was probably punished by the allied forces. The flail board is very big and heavy, so it is difficult for him to eat and drink, and it is even more difficult to lie down smoothly when sleeping. The punishment of wearing a cangue is simply a hell on earth.

Ms Smith and parishioners are in the ruins of a school. China people who believed in foreign religions were also besieged by the Boxers. For safety, they once entered the embassy district for protection.

Three four-poster wooden archways on the main road. Most of these archways are memorial buildings, which promote feudal ethics and have no practical function.

The man sat on the ruins of the embassy district. 1In June, July and August of 900, the Qing army and the Boxer Rebellion besieged the embassy district of Dongjiaominxiang, and the fighting between the two sides caused serious damage to this area.

By the Zhengyang Gate bombarded by Eight-Nation Alliance. Zhengyangmen, commonly known as the front gate, is the south gate of the inner city, located on the north-south central axis, with a grand scale and imposing momentum, but it was destroyed by 1900. First, the Boxer burned the watchtower, and soon it was blown up by the Allies.

Standing on the Chongwen Gate, shooting the city wall to the west. Eight-Nation Alliance soldiers stood guard on the wall with guns, and the Qing army had long since disappeared. For Empress Dowager Cixi, this scene is no less than a great shame.