Old photos of Yantai, Shandong in the late Qing Dynasty: these scenes are full of life, guess what can be sold in the food market?

Yantai street scene with food stalls. Recently I collected a set of records of the end of the Qing dynasty in Yantai, Shandong Province, the social landscape of the old photos, published today with all the netizens **** enjoy, feel the people's life more than 100 years ago. The specific shooting time is 1904 (Guangxu thirty years), the source for the Library of Congress website, the photographer is unknown.

Standing on Temple Mountain overlooking Yantai. Located in the northeastern part of the Shandong Peninsula and bordering the Bohai and Yellow Seas, Yantai has a long history and culture. As early as more than 2,200 years ago, Emperor Qin Shi Huang arrived in Yantai 3 times, searching for immortal medicine, sacrificing to Lord Yang, and erecting stone carvings. It is rumored that he once boarded Zhifu Island and shot a large shark. It was on his way back to Xianyang from Yantai that he eventually died.

The food market in Yantai. Vegetable market is the most reflective of the local life style of the place, especially this photo without posing traces, looks real and natural. The market sells cabbages, snacks and steamed buns? Do you have any novelty to discover?

The Japanese Consulate on Yantai Mountain. After the Second Opium War, Yantai was opened as a trading port (the first one in Shandong), and since then, 17 countries, including Britain, France, the United States and Japan, have set up consulates here one after another. From then on, Yantai was drawn into the process of modernization.

Busy Yantai harbor. Because of the opening of the port, Yantai ushered in the internationalization of the port trade, when the port boomed for a while, workers were busy, ships in and out, goods up and down, people, sirens roaring, a lively scene. Its trade volume from 1864 6.27 million Zhifu two reached 44.35 million customs two in 1905, the speed of development can not be said to be fast!

Workers are loading and unloading goods in Yantai harbor. Before the opening of the port, Yantai Harbor trade has been small, the import is limited to grain, export is limited to fish, salt. After the opening of the port, the coastal merchant ships trading in Yantai Harbor, in addition to the traditional trading of native goods, but also trading in vermicelli, peanuts, soybean oil, soybean cake, cotton cloth, sugar, bamboo, opium and other goods.