Coloring old photos: 1949 What was life like in Shanghai and the Far East metropolis on the eve of liberation?

1949 On the eve of liberation, Shanghai was full of foreigners, and people in China did not have enough to eat and wear.

1949, shortly after Liaoshen, Huaihai and Pingjin won profits. Fight all over the Yangtze River and liberate all China? Slogans resounded throughout the country. The People's Liberation Army of China launched a fierce attack on the remnants of the Kuomintang on various battlefields. On May 12, Sanye launched the Shanghai Campaign. 1On May 27th, 949, the People's Liberation Army liberated Shanghai. Let's go back 70 years and see Shanghai on the eve of liberation.

Shanghai was called in modern China? Shili sheep farm? . Since the Opium War, foreign concessions, foreigners, stocks, tall buildings and other new things have created its prosperity and its reputation as the largest city in China. /kloc-for more than 0/00 years, whether it is the bright lights on the Bund or the bustling streets and wells on Nanjing Road, it reflects the rise and fall of the whole country and nation. 1On May 27th, 949, after the first foreign concession in Shanghai was established for more than one hundred years, it returned to the people's arms.

Streets in Shanghai around May 1949: Men in suits and ties, cars parked at intersections, and actress Gloria? Lux soap endorsed by Carson.

1 949 February1day, a woman was cooking on the boat. The boat is her home. The men went ashore to work, and she prepared lunch for her family on the boat.

Refugees in Shanghai crowded the whole waterway.

1949 On February 4th, a little girl was waiting in line to get food from refugees.

A group of farmers carrying agricultural products are preparing to enter downtown Shanghai, waiting to pass the checkpoint.

The farmer's market in the old city of Shanghai.

On the streets of Shanghai, Buddhist monks knelt in front of shrines to pray.

In a park in Shanghai, several westerners are resting under umbrellas.

A little beggar was sleeping at the crossroads, and a rickshaw flew past him.

1May, 949, American and Japanese artillery roared and resounded through Shanghai Financial District.

1On May 25th, 949, Kuomintang soldiers retreated, and a huge portrait of Chiang Kai-shek hung on the street.

Kuomintang soldiers left Shanghai with bags on their backs.

Kuomintang soldiers are guarding supplies on the Bund in Shanghai, waiting for instructions to evacuate from Shanghai.

Modern calligraphers and senior officials of the National Government left Shanghai and took up their posts.

1949 In August, after the defeat of the Kuomintang, a group of captured Kuomintang troops walked on the streets of Shanghai.