In 1917, Tianjin's rickshaw, which was popular for about half a century, gradually lost its competitiveness with the emergence of trams, and was once one of the means of transportation for people in the Republic of China.
In 1917, the water wheel in Anjuba, in which the child in the photo pedaled at the same time, driving the middle wheel to bring water from low to high place, was one of the necessary tools for irrigating farmland during the farming season.
In 1917, farmers were buying paper ingots at stalls, and the Republic of China paper ingots were paper antique ingots with the background of the Republican period, the appearance was very similar to the real ingots, and the production process was also very exquisite.
On November 11, 1918, the Allies defeated the Allies, and China won World War I. On November 28 of the same year, the Beiyang government held a military parade at the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the picture shows soldiers attending the ceremony.
In 1919, the dust of the First World War settled, and the post-war Entente Conference was held in Paris.
China participated in the conference as a victorious country and made a reasonable demand to cancel all privileges of foreign powers in China and recover Shandong.
However, before the conference, Germany transferred Shandong's rights and interests to Japan, which seriously damaged China's interests.
The picture shows representatives of the world meeting at the Palace of Versailles in Paris.
In November 1919, the Japanese consul in Fujian fabricated statements such as that Japanese businessmen had been robbed and Japanese people were threatened.
As a result, sixty or seventy Japanese people were gathered to form the so-called "death squads" and deliberately clashed with people.
Killing one person and injuring many more, Beijing students protest Japanese atrocities in Fuzhou.
In 1919, during the May Fourth Movement in Beijing, students from Peking University and Tsinghua University formed the "National Salvation Ten" to give a speech on the street, the main activity was to boycott Japanese goods, and this activity achieved effective results.
In 1919, the ruins of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, which inherited more than 3,000 years of China's excellent gardening tradition, blended the essence of Chinese architecture and European gardens, but it was looted and burned by Western powers.
The picture above shows candidates waiting to enter the imperial examination waiting to enter the Tribute Academy, which was first born in the Tang Dynasty and has a very important position until the Republic of China, providing hope for countless poor students.
The picture above shows a person carrying a large string of copper coins, in 1917, copper coins depreciated, prices rose, and many people had to bring more than a dozen pounds of copper coins when shopping.
In 1917, Hangzhou, boys preparing to go to school, each carrying a small bottle of copper stove in their hands, Hangzhou was very cold in winter and needed heating for heating.