Photography Horse Watering Hole at the Yongding Gate
Photography Horse Watering Hole at the Yongding Gate
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A black-and-white photograph showing an animal watering hole in front of Yongding Gate (Yongdingmen 永定門) in the Outer City 外城, where the Han Chinese population lived. It was a completely separate world from the other two parts of Beijing with theatres, restaurants, majiang 麻將 casinos, opium smokehouses, various street festivals, and markets. The annual fair was held here. Part of the fair can also be seen in the photo. On the hills we see farmhouses and stores. Cargo was transported mainly by horses, but also by camels, donkeys, and mules.
Yongding Gate was the main entrance to Beijing. On the same north-south axis was the city’s main gate Zhengyang Gate (Zhengyangmen 正陽門), better known as the Front Gate (Qianmen 前門), leading into the Inner City.
The photograph is the 120th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of ... more
A black-and-white photograph showing an animal watering hole in front of Yongding Gate (Yongdingmen 永定門) in the Outer City 外城, where the Han Chinese population lived. It was a completely separate world from the other two parts of Beijing with theatres, restaurants, majiang 麻將 casinos, opium smokehouses, various street festivals, and markets. The annual fair was held here. Part of the fair can also be seen in the photo. On the hills we see farmhouses and stores. Cargo was transported mainly by horses, but also by camels, donkeys, and mules.
Yongding Gate was the main entrance to Beijing. On the same north-south axis was the city’s main gate Zhengyang Gate (Zhengyangmen 正陽門), better known as the Front Gate (Qianmen 前門), leading into the Inner City.
The photograph is the 120th of 449 photographs of Beijing and its surroundings in the album of Ivan Skušek Jr., purchased during his stay in Beijing (1914–1920). In the handwritten inventory of the album, the photograph is referred to as Pferdeschwemme bei Yung-Ting-Men. (DZ, MV)
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