Old photos of China people in the late Qing Dynasty: The child was crying, did the mother take a picture calmly?

The child cried and the mother calmly took pictures. 1892, adolf? Videman and Joseph? Josef hofmann published a thin photo album, which recorded the daily life of Chinese in San Francisco. This is the first published photographic record of China people in the United States.

A shop assistant with pigtails. Dragon dance performance, male braids, female feet, fortune telling? All kinds of recorded scenes and characters, if not the background introduction, you simply can't see that this is in a foreign country. Across the ocean to modern America, everyone still retains the way of life in their hometown.

A shop run by China and Americans in partnership. In the late Qing Dynasty, Chinese were doing the hardest, most tiring and most dangerous work in the United States, but they were deeply discriminated against. This kind of discrimination is carried out in the form of legislation (Chinese Exclusion Act), and it is conceivable that being beaten and expelled is a common occurrence. China people are isolated in the United States.

People perform dragon dances, and others hold dragon flags. Due to widespread discrimination, Chinese in the late Qing Dynasty did not integrate into American society. They kept their old habits and lived in Chinatown. Folk activities such as dragon dancing are the grand finale of major festivals, bringing China people from their hometown to the other side of the ocean.

The funeral procession. Except the carriage is western-style, everything else has strong China characteristics.

Funeral offerings. Many Americans are watching, and it may be difficult for them to understand this custom of confessing for the dead.

A girl with little feet. Foot-binding was popular in the Qing Dynasty, and girls broke their toes at the age of 7 or 8, so they got entangled. Three inches of golden lotus? This move was caused by abnormal aesthetics in that social environment, and it was the cruelest and darkest feudal ethics. Families coming to America have long escaped the trap and can give girls enough space, but her parents don't. Obviously, their ideas have been deeply poisoned and they take foot-binding for granted.

The entrance to the courtroom. Zhigongtang is famous in modern history, also known as Zhigongtang? Hong Men? The main hall is located in San Francisco, with branches in new york and Chicago. At first, it was set up by Guangdong underworld leaders to escape the arrest of the Qing government and go into exile overseas. Cutting grass helps the weak, eliminating violence and helping each other? Call each other. Contact with royalists and revolutionaries.