We all know that the most powerful person after the story is naturally the emperor, as a symbol of the country, he has lived the most luxurious life from birth, so we can see that the emperor in the TV series is gorgeously dressed and the residence is also magnificent. However, these tv structures may be true, but there is another phenomenon that has deceived the audience for a long time.
I believe that many people have seen that in the court dramas of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor wanted to go out of the palace on a whim to pay a private visit. So they dressed up and went out of the palace, and walked on the street, there are many merchants selling all kinds of goods and snacks on both sides of the road, roadside stalls and even eat morning tea, there are people who laugh, which is obviously different from the real history, a British photographer once came to the Qing Dynasty, photographed the lives of many Qing Dynasty people, which allows us to understand how poor the Qing Dynasty people were now.
In the TV series we can see that the people's homes have chickens and ducks and other poultry, but in the real Qing Dynasty, the people are estimated to not even see chicken feathers, and in the above picture we can see that the women of the Qing Dynasty still have the tradition of foot binding, not only inconvenient to move, but even in the case of standing unsteadily, busy with the usual housework, if one day slack, may be hungry for a day.
Then there is the Qing Dynasty prosperous "Kangqian Shengshi" that we are familiar with, which can be said to be the most brilliant period of the Qing Dynasty, but unfortunately, such splendor is only the glory of the country, and it has not been implemented to the people, most of the property is still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty royal family, most of the people have been busy for a year, and it is just to solve a food and clothing, this is still a prosperous situation, if there is another period, it may be a big problem to solve the problem of food and clothing.
Macartney's visit to China believes that everyone understands, this is the first british contact with China, it can be said that the impact is far-reaching, at that time there were many people in Europe who admired China very much and advocated learning from China, Macartney was still such a person, so he was full of expectations for this trip to China, but the result made him very disappointed.
During his visit to China, Macartney was not only angry with the arrogance of the Qianlong Emperor, but also saw the life of the old Bai surname of the Qing Dynasty, and then he wrote this in his diary and translated it as follows: "The common people are almost all ragged and have no dignity to speak of, and every time they receive our leftovers, they must be thankful." For the tea leaves we used, they always greedily scrambled and then boiled water to drink." Such a scene disappointed Macartney. You know, this is still the so-called Kangqian prosperous era, and the Qing Dynasty's policy of never raising taxes is because the Qing Dynasty's taxes have hit a record high in China's history, so never raising taxes is actually difficult for the people to survive.