Who was the first person to take a photo in China?

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Where were the first people who used cameras in China?

The earliest people who used cameras in China were relatives of the Qing Dynasty and the first generation photo studios in port cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Guangzhou, which were run by foreigners, China people themselves and "Sino-foreign joint ventures". However, the research on pinhole imaging principle in history was discussed as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Shen Kuo, a scientist with outstanding achievements in the fields of finance, literature, mathematics, astronomy and medicine in the Northern Song Dynasty, elaborated in detail. (103 1 year ~1095) lived in seclusion after 58 years old, and wrote "Meng Qian Bi Tan" in Meng Xi Park in his later years. 1985 when Shen Kuo's tomb was discovered in taipingwu, xiwan village, anxi county, yuhang, my father and son were lucky enough to take part in the photography work of this tomb discovery and published it in the Shenzhen special zone newspaper, Youth Evening News.

There is a saying in "Meng Qian Bi Tan": "It is absurd to say that the sea turns over the platform and shadows into the window, but it is common sense." It means that things and scenery will definitely reflect through a small gap (pinhole). It is normal for the sea to appear in the sky and the top of the pagoda to face down.

We ancients have been studying the principle of pinhole imaging, that is, the principle of camera. When the world invented the camera, it could quickly master and use it. 1903, Yu Xunling took photos of Cixi in the Qing Palace, and of course took photos of the emperor and other relatives of the Empress Dowager. Although some photos have passed 100 years, they are still widely circulated in the collectible market. Of course, it is a remake of the "old photo", which is the photo of the most important relatives in the Qing Dynasty. However, as soon as foreigners arrived in Beijing, Tianjin, Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou and other port cities and opened photo studios, photography was introduced to China in the second year after the French publication of Photography in Daguerre-1840, and photography was introduced to China in various ways, such as missionary work, business, medical treatment and military aggression. 1844, the Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi and the Minister of Trade and Industry of Five Ports should present his portrait photos to the officials of Britain, the United States, Italy and Portugal as a courtesy when negotiating with France in Macao.