Old photos: Ouchi Gao holds a painted halberd guarding the palace. The North Korean general’s wheelbarrow is very unique.

?This is a photo of a general in ancient Korea when he was traveling. The general rode in a unicycle driven by four drivers. This should have been a popular means of transportation for North Korean nobles to travel. Compared with the four-carriage and eight-carriage sedans of Chinese officials, the carriages of North Korean nobles were not only dangerous and strange, but also very shabby.

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?Wives and concubines of officials in the late Qing Dynasty. This should be a photo taken of the wives and concubines of an official in the garden of their home. Judging from the clothes of these wives and the rockery in the garden behind them, it seems that the husbands of these ladies are officials of high rank.

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?The Ouchi master who guards the palace. The one on the left is holding a Fangtian painted halberd, which is very powerful. The one on the right has his hands on his hips and is arrogant. What they were guarding should be a very important palace in the Forbidden City.

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?*** Yingtai in old photos. The reason why Yingtai is famous is largely because Guangxu was once the Empress Dowager Cixi. He was under house arrest here for ten years. The name Yingtai comes from the world of immortals in ancient mythology, but for Guangxu, it was the shackles that imprisoned him.

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?A low-level official in the late Qing Dynasty. This official is very handsome. In the photo, he is holding a fan in his hand and smiling at the camera. I wonder what happy thing made him laugh so cheerfully?

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