Jiali photography experience

Some concubines in the Qing Dynasty looked terrible. Because the Qing dynasty made great efforts to train professional emperors, there were two main criteria for choosing queens: one was bloodline, and the other was moral character. They asked the queen and the concubines to be "noble in the family", "auspicious and loyal", lenient and filial, humble and cautious. The most important criterion for choosing a concubine is not beauty.

Why are all the photos of concubines in Qing Dynasty so ugly? The range of choices is very small.

Before the Qing Dynasty, emperors generally chose concubines regardless of nationality, only paying attention to family status and appearance, and conducted sea elections within the territorial jurisdiction.

However, after Manchu entered the customs, the emperor shunzhi issued an imperial edict, stipulating that the election of the Qing Palace must be read by the flag bearers, and the women of the flag bearers will be severely punished if they want to escape the draft. It is more difficult for a China woman who is not a flag-bearer to participate in the draft than to ascend to heaven.

Because the scope of choice is narrowed, the probability of choosing a beautiful woman is naturally greatly reduced. What's more, Mongolian women at that time were generally rough-looking. In order to kiss each other, they often kissed their sisters, and both of them married an emperor.

In addition, some queens are afraid that their sons are addicted to debauchery, and only choose plain-looking women for him from noble ministers. A poor girl, no matter how beautiful, has no chance to enter the harem.

In this way, it did lead to a lot of ugly concubines in the harem.

Photographic equipment Qiang Li Bei Guo

At that time, the camera equipment was very simple, not only the photos were pure black and white, but also the quality of photos from continuous shooting was affected. Moreover, there was no so-called ps technology in those days, and makeup was not as superb as it is now. I am used to seeing the photos of beautiful women with high ps makeup now, but I really can't find beauty when I look at the photos at that time.

The backwardness of photography technology

100 years ago, there was no special cameraman, people just took pictures as a souvenir. Modern people are different. Now professional photographers have studied professional composition, color exposure time and so on, and the photos taken are naturally different.

Different aesthetic standards

Judging from the photos flowing out now, the concubines in the imperial harem of the Qing Dynasty look really ordinary. For those who are used to seeing modern beauties, the value of concubines in the harem of the Qing Dynasty is really average. It seems that it is not only the emperor in agent provocateur who is dissatisfied with the harem beauty, but also the emperor in Qing Dynasty.

Every era has different aesthetic standards. In recent years, online red face is more popular, men prefer online red face, and women also want to develop in the direction of online red face. Thirty years ago, the criteria for judging beautiful women were different from now. Faces that were too thin were not popular at that time.

It is precisely because of the above reasons that the looks of concubines in the harem of the Qing Dynasty are not very prominent to us, and many concubines look more like ordinary passers-by.