Old photos in the late Qing Dynasty: It's fashionable for women to drink foreign wine, but is Wang Ye's little wife dignified?

Today, I present a set of 10 old photos of the late Qing Dynasty. Most of these precious photos are posed, but they are also based on the social life at that time, which can show the historical features of 100 years ago to some extent.

Street gambling scene.

Several people in the photo look very excited. They are stuck on the wall. Kill three parties? I hope to bring good luck to the players. In early cities such as Guangzhou and Fuzhou, there were many flower boats providing gambling places. Foreigners living there at that time were very curious about this and hired some people to pose for gambling.

A woman who drinks.

In the photo, three young women with beautiful faces and exquisite costumes sit around the table where foreign wine and smoking utensils are placed, creating a scene that satisfies westerners' curiosity about the late Qing society. Everyone pays great attention to their clothes, which are fashionable jackets and pants in the late Qing Dynasty. Compared with the traditional forms of women's clothing, they are much narrower and can better reflect the slim figure.

Women take a group photo.

Compared with women who drink foreign wine, the characters in this photo are more traditional in headdress and clothing. Coats and horse-faced skirts are styles handed down from the Ming Dynasty. Another important difference is that women who drink foreign wine are full of feet, and the women in this picture are all wrapped up? Three inches of golden lotus? .

Cai Xiyong (1847- 1898) graduated from Guangzhou Wentong Museum and was an expert on westernization appointed by Zhang Zhidong. When Zhang Zhidong was appointed Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, he asked Cai Xiyong to be the general manager of the Guangdong Westernization Bureau, responsible for handling the negotiation affairs, setting up a silver dollar bureau, a gun factory, an amphibious division school, and manufacturing soldiers. When Zhang Zhidong was the governor of Huguang, he was transferred to Cai Xiyong as the general manager of Hubei Railway Bureau, and successively organized institutions such as Hubei Ironmaking Factory, Gun Factory, Silver Bureau, Weaving Layout, Self-improvement School and Military Academy.

As a posing photo, this scene is very huge. There are a large number of people accompanying the photo, and the sedan chair is luxurious, which is a masterpiece reflecting the folk scenery of the late Qing Dynasty. ? Silence? Avoid? Signs like this are used for official visits, but they can also be used once on the wedding day.