Guang 'anmen Wengcheng, the outer city of Beijing. This is a group of old photos recording the scenery of Beijing and its suburbs in the late Qing Dynasty. The specific time is 1902- 1905. The photographer is Willard Zhi, an American who works in the customs. At that time, it was at the end of Empress Dowager Cixi's rule, and the Qing Dynasty was about to perish. These photos are the last relics of the Qing Dynasty. ?

The scenery outside Guang 'anmen. Guang 'anmen, also known as Zhangyimen, is the only gate open to the west in the outer city of old Beijing. It is the main channel for southern provinces to enter Beijing. In the Qing Dynasty, there were two roads paved with stone slabs in the outer city: one was from Zhengyangmen to Yongdingmen, and the stone slabs were laid in the middle of the road on the central axis of the outer city. This is the emperor's trip to the Temple of Heaven and the Xiannongtan. Suburban worship? Imperial road; The other is the official road from Lugou Bridge to Guang 'anmen.

An official in the yamen. There is a couplet written on the doorpost beside him: the emperor moistens things with spring rain, and the emperor rains widely because of time. ? This sentence eulogizes the emperor's benevolence and moistens the world like spring breeze and drizzle.

Broken Great Wall landscape. By the Qing Dynasty, foreign invasion from the north was eliminated, and the Great Wall lost its military function. There are no soldiers stationed on the Great Wall except some important passes. After hundreds of years of wind, rain and erosion, collapsed ruins are common, but the Qing court did not invest in repairs.

A corner of Beijing. This landscape is not much different from the countryside. When the wind blows, dust flies all over the sky.

A scene of Fufeng Flower Factory. Specializing in planting all kinds of flower bonsai, you can see the greenhouse on the right. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were greenhouses for planting fruits, vegetables and flowers, and the court also built greenhouses near Nanhuamen.

A small restaurant by the road. There are past vendors stopping to buy, and the table is like a sesame seed cake.

The European car broke down on the road and the hood was lifted. The earliest cars in old Beijing were used by European and American envoys and businessmen. Yuan Shikai once presented a car to Empress Dowager Cixi, but she never rode it. At that time, the horsepower for waiting was very small, and the road was bumpy and it was easy to break down.